Derek Lever's Magic Mag

Derek Lever's Magic Mag, Volume 1
Published by Derek Lever, Peter C. Woolley & Taurus Magic, Manchester & Bury, Lancaster, England
Volume 1 consists of 6 issues, 260 pages total

Volume 1, Number 1, October/November 1979, 36 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

1. Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
   • Are Magic Societies Out of Date?
2. drawing collage of Chung Ling Soo
3. Blast from the Past - Chung Ling Soo - personality
4. Kid's Entertainers Only - news and advice
5. On the Road with Michael Allport - series
   • Zurich, Switzerland
6. Well I'll Be Hanged - a new...

Derek Lever's Magic Mag, Volume 2
Published by Derek Lever, Peter C. Woolley & Taurus Magic, Manchester & Bury, Lancaster, England
Volume 2 consists of 6 issues, 264 pages total

Volume 2, Number 1, October/November 1980, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

1. Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
   • Lever Agrees with Edwin ???????
2. Stage Magic - illusion plans
   • The Boy to Rabbit Illusion
7. Entertaining the Under Fives - Myster Yaffe
   • Part Three - Your Material and You
   • It Need Not be Magi
   • Ya Gotta Have Love
   • Dealer's Items
12. List of readers...

Derek Lever's Magic Mag, Volume 3
Published by Derek Lever, Peter C. Woolley & Taurus Magic, Manchester & Bury, Lancaster, England
Volume 3 consists of 6 issues, 264 pages total

Volume 3, Number 1, October/November 1981, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

1. Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
2. Magical Inventor of the Year Competition
   • The Impromptu Chop Cup - Eoin Taylor
   • Phenominal Coincidence - E. W. Thomas
   • Routine for the Cups and Balls Plus Chop Cup Set - Paul Anthony
5. another (better) photo of Edwin Hooper
5. List of readers who passed the examination...

Derek Lever's Magic Mag, Volume 4
Published by Derek Lever, Peter C. Woolley & Taurus Magic, Manchester & Bury, Lancaster, England
Volume 4 consists of 6 issues, 266 pages total

Volume 4, Number 1, October/November 1982, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

1. Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
   • Praise from Abra
   • Magic Mag Magician of the Year
2. Comedy Corner - jokes, comedy routines, etc. - Derek Lever
3. Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
   • A Different Card Trick - Maurice Deighton
4. cartoon
5. Free Advertising Section
6. Happiness...

The magazine started in October 1979 and the final issue was published in August 1983. When Derek Lever launched Magic Mag he felt that the entire magic scene had become stagnant and uninteresting and once the magazine was launched he was not afraid of having a dig at anyone and everyone. It was an outspoken magazine with some top professional contributors such as: Simon Lovell, Trevor Lewis, David Howarth, Tommy Copper, Terry Seabrooke and Billy McComb. It contains hundreds of professional effects and routines, articles, hints and tips for everyone with an interest in becoming a working professional.

Included is an index (not hyperlinked...