Magic & Mentalism: page 108

This is a biting parody of the famous weekly UK magazine Abracadabra. The parody was published by Geoff Maltby of Repro Magic. It was a supplement to one of the Club 71 issues in 1988. To understand all the fun they are poking at you will have to have read some of the Abra issues.

• Magical News and reviews around the world with Geoff Maltby
• Eddie Dawes reviews the magazines.
• John Rhodes keeps us up to date with who has been doing what and where.
• Al Smith suggests some magical consignees to Room 101.
• Alan Ward discusses a special form of line art.
• Magical diary—put your club on the map.
• Your contributions can win prizes
• Unclassified ads. Buy, sell, swop or announce.
• Ian Keable and Walt discuss the good professor Hoffman
• Alexander Allen adds yet another novel card revelation to the cannon.
• Peter Duffie presents an easy to do 'Lie Detector' that...

• News and Reviews with Geoff
• Peter d'Arcy discusses the business of negotiating with bookers on the telephone
• Malcolm Yaffe asks why bookers on the telephone can be so blessed awkward
• Henrique tells it as it is — about backstage fiddlers, twiddlers and tinklers!
• John Rhodes keeps us updated on magic in the newspapers
• Eddie Dawes recounts the 9th Los Angeles Conference on Magic History
• Patrick Lindley's historical diary
• Letters — Your chance to have your say
• Unclassified Ads. Buy Sell, swop or exchange
• Magical event diary. Put your society on the magical map
• JJ and...

• A different perspective—a spectator's nightmare is related by Amanda R. Hyatt
• Malcolm Yaffe makes a record for future reference
• Magic Moments as Walt applies the psychology of Tommy Wonder
• Eddie Dawes reports on the New England Magic Collectors' Association and discovers a rare postage stamp
• JJ's wagon rolls into view and he tell two salutary tales of regret
• Fred Castle explains the use of the Ascanio Spread with jumbo cards to perform a four queen transformation
• Ian Adair again treats us to a double dose. Firstly with a version of magic painting and secondly with a tick...

• Magical News and reviews around the world
• More Television magic and Walt discusses it
• Henrique and a friendly council worker with a historic magical interest
• Letters Brickbats, bouquets and observations
• and the tale of a snotty, salty son
• Magic event diary. Put your society on the map
• Jim Breedon and the Spider and the Fly
• Basic card technique continues with the Jordan/Siva count
• Stephen Tucker must be dealing from a dodgy deck ... the 15 of clubs
• Ian Adair with his Wallaby Wands
• Barrie Richardson revisits the Mount Kenya Paradox
• Bob Ostin is recounting the spots on...

• Geoff's News and Reviews
• Magical Diary, Who, What, Where and When
• Barrie Richardson's Final Ecstasy
• Michael Factor tells how to tell your trade marks from your other ones
• Paul Hallas with the simplest of collectors
• Letters. Have your say by post or e-mail
• AliCardAbra's Lubbly Bubbly Wand
• Arun Bonerjee addresses Symbolism
• Soumya Deb steals a dove
• Alan Ward vanishes the lady the easy way
• Werner Miller's Mysteries with cyclical courts
• Competition Send your original material and maybe win a prize
• Peter Duffie is miraculously impossible
• Rex Stott reviews the 2002 Magi Cruise to the...

• News from Geoff
• Jim Breedon prints money, but it's ok it's perfectly legal!
• Barrie Richardson's Elegant Princess, a variation on an old theme
• Peter Kane holds out with his Foldout. A new gimmick with many applications
• Ian Adair slates his many pets
• Alan Ward with a dangerous stunt
• Gorra Datta baffles with his bangles
• Letters page.
• Al Smith bites back. Forthright musing through the back window
• Paul Daniels and Debbie in USA
• Eddie Dawes collecting cinematography
• Peter Duffie Mixes Magically
• JJ Resists a sale to the toffs and retains his integrity and gains their respect ...

• News and reviews with Geoff
• Henrique as only he can be
• Ian Adair presents Cartoon Capers for the children
• Eddie Dawes once more collects his thoughts
• Peter Duffie with a dark widow
• ChiKANEry - this month Peter is courting Jokers
• New Competition for year 2001 Your chance to win
• Miller's Mysteries More cunning stunts from Werner
• Table hopping for kiddies with Malcolm
• The Year 2000 competition winners - are you there?
• Al Smith considers losing the plot
• A working pipe-dream from Malcolm Yaffe
• J.J. wins with modesty
• Ian Keable considers performing unpaid for the enemy ...

• Views and reviews with Geoff Maltby, Plus news around the studio
• Walt Lees Editorial: What does the Millennium mean to you?
• Double Design for Laughter with Kennedy Smith
• The Eyes have it. Clever and Different Magic from Trevor Lewis
• The Club 71 Magazine Competion to make you rich and famous
• Magic Paint Tin by Roland Lumby for your picture painting routine
• New for Old. Ali Cardabra with a Visaball Ghost Writer
• Al Smith is philosophical as he ponders through the rear window
• Peter Kane shows he is more than just a brilliant card man with his Linking Ring interlude
• Prolific...

• News & Reviews in and around the Studio
• Ian Adair with bits of balloon business for Children
• Arun Bonerjee's Mental Birthday Card
• So you still want to be a children's entertainer says Walt Lees
• Henrique on the business of games to entertain the youngsters and fill in the time!
• Letters. Your chance to tell it like it is
• Balloonacy from Balloonatic Malcolm Malan
• Eddie Dawes Collects his thoughts about things valuable.
• Miller's Mysteries continues with a Flexible Number Force
• Simon Lovell considers the Multiple Top Change
• Alan Ward's Baffling Bycyclette will cross your...

• NEWS and Reviews with Geoff Mattby
• STEVE JONES tells a story about High Society
• BARRIE RICHARDSON with a clever, different and subtle card to pocket
• JOHN RHODES with all the news that's fit to print, gleaned from around the world
• ALAN WARD with Thaumatropic Trickery
• ACE Children's entertainer Ian Adair with invaluable advice on using rabbits in for the children's performer
• ALI CARDABRA with rope and silk magic for the trendy Trixter
• ARUN BONERJEE continues his mentalism
• EXPOSURE!
• BASIC CARD TECHNIQUE chapter 26 covers the Double Lift
• EDDIE DAWES tells you what you have...

• News & Reviews around the studio with Geoff
• Tanpari Touch Who's Joking'
• All Rhodes lead to enlightenment. Magic news culled from the media
• Patrick Page makes a welcome return to our page with a new routine and presentation for a Classic effect
• Basic Card Technique, part 18 - The Pass
• Subscription information
• The Psychic Secrets of Alex Le-Roy part 2
• Simon Lovell with a presentation for 'Vernon's Twisting the Aces'
• Party Games. Steve Jones covers the area of entertaining the little sods, sans sorcery
• Henrique continues to drop the dew in a humorous fashion
• Donald Bostock...

• NEWS & REVIEWS Magic around the studio with Geoff Maltby
• HEAVY & LIGHT: First Class magic for the childrens' entertainer from Malcolm Yaffe
• BASIC CARD TECHNIQUE: Basic Card Technique Part 9:- Add-on Switches
• SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS, together with rates and renewal information
• STEVE JONES with a well designed squiggle or Einstein's graphology!
• SIMON SAYS: More from our very own expatriot!
• MINOR MIRACLE: More Mental magic from Arun Bonerjee of India
• AL SMITH MUSES on things Magical and things Star Trek!!
• HOW TO BE A CHILDREN'S ENTERTAINER Part 15 - Age Groups and how to handle...

• Members Write. Your chance to have your say about anything on the magic scene.
• Problem children. Part 7 of Walt Lees series on the entertainment of children.
• Ring the Bell: New cabaret item from Jim Breedon
• Variations on a theme by Katherine, including the cig through jacket.
• The oh so simple nudist packet by Philip Sweeting
• Phil Goldstein with a variation on a Peter Duffie effect.
• Simon Lovell with a letter from America
• News and reviews in and around the studio conducted by Geoff
• David Copperfield at Earls Court London - Ali Cardabra reviews the show
• Al Smith discusses...

• Entertaining Children Part 4 by Walt Lees - The choice of material
• SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION - How to keep the club magazine dropping through your letter-box!
• Malcolm Yaffe with an intriguing variation on 'String & Bones'
• Drama in Magic - Steve Jones with part 2 of his exciting new series
• PRELOCATION - another ingenious winner from Phil Goldstein, alter ego of Max Maven
• Simon Sayes - Simon Lovell with a nifty card miracle especially for flummoxing magicos!
• News & Reviews. Geoff with the latest update on the forthcoming QE2 Magic Convention/Cruise
• The Back Window and Al Smith...

• THREE BLIND MICE for Kids by Steve Jones
• NIGHT WATCH by Maurice Phillips
• LETTERS: Bouquet or Brickbat, your chance to have your say.
• THAT ROPE & VASE AGAIN This time by Magini of Ipswich
• HENRIQUE ponders
• SIMON SAYS: This time Lovell's all new MTC
• MENTAL MAGIC: This month Square Bashing from Stephen Tucker
• SUBSCRIPTIONS Don't miss a single issue
• HOW TO SUCCEED Part 14 of Steve Jones Get Rich Quick series
• NEWS & REVIEWS around the studio conducted by Geoff
• MISTAKE: A mental offering from Arun Bonerjee
• WHAT DO I DO NEXT? Ponders Malcolm Yaffe
• RIGHTING A WRONG: A Clever...

• MENTAL ECSTASY - A brilliant New Mental epic from Barrie Richardson
• CEREAL SERIAL by Club Lunatic and all round nice guy Tony Richards
• SNOOPS SCOOPS: Divulges the deepest secrets of how to do a Magic Lecture
• SUBSCRIPTION INFO. Don't Miss out
• PART EIGHT of Steve Jones series, How to Become Rich and Famous
• FUNNIES, Cartoon Corner
• THE HOLY JUMP: More pasteboard mutilation by Angelo Carbone
• HENRIQUE tells it how it is straight from the shoulder
• THE BACK WINDOW: Meditative Musings of Cardician Al Smith
• SIMON LOVELL with thoughts and a wee trickette pour voo
• COMEDY IMPRESSIONS...

• BALLOON MODELLING. A comprehensive course for every entertainer by Walt Lees
• KIDDIES COLUMN. The Diminishing Cards routined for Children with Jim Breedon
• STAGE TABLE. Easily made when you follow Brian Eden's Sound and Practical Advice
• SHARP PRACTISE. More Serious Card Work collected by Justin Higham
• PUNCH SWAZZLE FOR TABLE-HOPPERS? Graham Clarke shows you when and where!
• VENTRILOQUISM. Len Belmont continues this issue with Chapter 11 in the Series
• SNOOPS SCOOPS: Coaching at the Spaghetti Acadamy
• SIMON SAYS. Cute n Clever Colour Changing Cards!
• NEWS In and Around the Studio...

• Kiddies Column: Brian Eden continues his series, entertaining the modern child, Part six - assistants
• OOOOH AN' 'E WAS STRONG: A Kids routine from Walt Lees
• Open Competition Big Money Prizes
• Basic Card Technique continues with the Kosky Switch Change
• Letters. Your chance to say exactly what you want
• Letters Writs and Court Cases arising from 'The Bodgit'
• Magic of the Mind: Steve Jones contributes a smashing, intimate mental effect
• Snoop's Scoops: Magic's only soap continues with Saucy Sausage secrets and Mr McCulture's box
• Coin in Balloon: A clever variation on a theme...

• Walt Lees Editorial
• Variations on a Theme: The Monte Christo Card Continues
• Subscription Information: How to keep it coming
• Competition: You chance to win big prizes
• Basic Card Technique: Another Top Change by Tony Jackson
• Kiddies Column: with Richard Stupple's routine for Giant and Dwarf
• Computer Magic: Part two of Walt's Quick on the Draw
• Juggling Jottings: Bob Menary continues this useful series
• Pronto Card To Wallet: Our serialisation of Hugh Miller's 'Al Koran's Legacy'
• Punch and Judy: musings by Ron Denton
• The Sword of Fate by James Breedon
• Funny Fings that persist...

• Editorial by Walt Lees
• Letters: Your chance to have your say
• Let's Take A Closer Look: Space Cups by Magical Matt
• Variations on a Theme by Malcolme Yaffe
• Micro (Computer) Magic: The Data Base
• Kiddies Column: Sucker Blendo by Walt Lees
• Funny Fings that continue to happen to Len Belmont
• Optical Delusions by Sebastian Cody
• Magic at Work: a new series
• Poet's Corner
• Bar Magic: Squash Caught
• Competition: your chance to win big prizes
• All's Well That End's Well: a pause for thought by Walt Lees
• Subscription Info: Don't miss a single issue
• Mental Magic: Barrie Richardson...

• Editorial: Walt tells it as it is
• Unclassified Ads: Buy, sell or swap
• Blackpool Convention last minute news
• Magic of the Mind by Len Vine
• The Egg Bag: Variations on a theme by Gerard Mallon
• Kiddies Column: The Fantasio Candle routined by Walt Lees
• Mental Magic by Barrie Richardson
• Card Sessions by John B. Wolf
• Psycholour Plus by Norman Wilcox
• Basic Card Technique: The Ascanio Spread
• Children's Magic: Pranky Plaque
• Close UP Card Magic by Stuart Colligan
• That's The Way To Do It: Our series on Punch and Judy continues
• Character Analysis by Harold Long
• Magical Diary:...

• Editorial by Walt Lees
• Hints and Tips by Marc Weinstock
• To Thine Own Self Be True: Thoughts on television magic
• Fred Robinson: An appreciation
• A Die-Abolic Mystery: A New Kids Routine from Tevor Lewis
• Letters: Club Members write
• That's the Way To Do It: Walt continues the series on Punch and Judy
• Unclassified Ads: Buy, sell, swop, trade with other Club Members
• Card Sessions by John C. Mournier
• Magical Diary: What's happening and when
• L. of a Card Trick: Card magic from Ian Rowland
• Bar Magic: Geoff continues this popular topic
• Let's Take A Closer Look: Penny Fortunes...

• Competition: Last Call
• Editorial
• Kiddies Column: Complete new routine by Walt Less
• Card Session
• Cabaret Time by Peter Kane
• Close-Up Magic: An intriguing effect from Charles Pemberton
• Basic Card Technique: The Double Lift
• Blackpool Convention (Special Offer for Club Members)
• Patrick's Page: A novel new Silk routine
• Society Roundup
• 1985 Catalogue Supplement
• Mental Magic: A clever prediction from 'Scrivante'
• Peanuts Monkeys and the Devil: A controversial article about fees
• Stunts and Tricks: More bar foolers
• News and Reviews
• Bar Magic
• Computer Conjuring: Conducted...