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Michael Maxwell

(Oakland, California: 20th July 1959 - 13th December 2019)

Michael Gerard Maxwell learned at age 9 from mail-order magic set and library books. Writer/graphic artist-designer (and since 1988 as "A-1 Writing Service" in Sacramento, California). Semi-pro close-up and stand-up magician since age 14. Main writer for Jennings and Falanga's L&L Publishing house since 1986. President of A-1 MultiMedia (later A-1 MagicalMedia), which produced magic videos.

Wrote Lake Tahoe Card Magic (1985), The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings (1986), The Commercial Magic of J.C. Wagner (1987), Larry Jennings: The Cartwright (1988), Daryl's The Psychological Assembly (1987), Bruce Cervon's The Black & White Trick (1989), Randy Wakeman Presents (1989), Michael Skinner's Ultimate 3 Card Monte (1990). Articles in Genii and Apocalypse. Several videos.

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Michael Maxwell
A1-MagicalMedia Catalog Fall 2000 by Michael Maxwell

Full color catalog advertising videos and books.

1st edition 2000; 16 pages.

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Michael Maxwell
A1-MagicalMedia Catalog Fall 2000 (used) by Michael Maxwell

Full color catalog advertising videos and books. Softcover stapled. In excellent condition.

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Michael Maxwell
A Real Prediction by Michael Maxwell

This effect was created by Dai Vernon and was published in Rufus Steele's book The Last Word on Cards.

The deck is shuffled by a spectator. The magician removes a prediction card from the deck and places it face down on the table. The spectator creates two piles. The top card of one is turned face up. The value of that card is used to count to a card in the other pile. The card counted to is the mate of the prediction.

runtime 4min 29s

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Toony Angel (for resale)

Michael Maxwell
Toony Angel (for resale) by Michael Maxwell

The most successful effect of this kind was Dan Harlan's CardToon where a deck of cards doubled as a flip book. Riffling through the cards one would see a cartoon magician drawn on the backs find and reveal a chosen card. This effect was a huge success, potentially it was the most successful magic trick of all times (my guess, I don't really know).

Toony Angel builds on the basic idea to use a deck of cards as a flip book, but rather than animate a cartoon character on the back, the angel on the bicycle, from the Bicycle back design, starts to cycle towards you, zips around on the back of the card and...

 

Learn to Levitate (for resale)

Michael Maxwell
Learn to Levitate (for resale) by Michael Maxwell

Defy gravity! Learn the secret to levitate money, matches, cards, knives, canes, balls and even yourself.

You will learn:

  • The Floating Dollar Bill (with Thread Reel)
  • The Floating Dollar Bill (featuring the "Burr Secret") The Levitating Dollar Bill
  • The Floating Match (Invented by Ben Harris. For more details see Cosmosis.)
  • Swiss Movement (Paul Harris' Animated Pocket Knife)
  • The Floating Card
  • The Dancing Cane
  • The Floating Ball (for stage)
  • The Balducci Levitation (Floating yourself!)
No effect compares to having an ordinary, everyday object seemingly defy gravity. Watch your audience gasp with delight and amazement...
 
Michael Maxwell
A New Game by Michael Maxwell

This trick was developed by Allan and Debbie Ackerman. Debbie is Allan's daughter.

A spectator chooses a card and the value of the card decides how many hands are dealt in this game. Let's say the spectator chooses the 3 of Hearts. A random number of cards is taken from the deck and then dealt into 3 hands. Then the performer announces that the spectator should pick one pile. If that pile does not have a 3 on its top the spectator wins, otherwise the magician wins. Of course, the odds are vastly in favor of the spectator. Nevertheless, the top cards on all three piles turn out to be 3s and as...

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Michael Maxwell
The Lazy Man's Interlocking Setup II by Michael Maxwell

One spectator receives a prediction for safe keeping. Another spectator receives a portion of the deck, shuffles it thoroughly, deals cards one at a time on the table, and stops whenever he likes. He may stop at the first card, the last card, or anywhere in between. The value of the randomly chosen card is used to count to a card in the remaining portion of the deck. And that card matches the prediction.

runtime: 4min 34s

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Michael Maxwell
Toony Angel by Michael Maxwell

The most successful effect of this kind was Dan Harlan's CardToon where a deck of cards doubled as a flip book. Riffling through the cards one would see a cartoon magician drawn on the backs find and reveal a chosen card. This effect was a huge success, potentially it was the most successful magic trick of all times (my guess, I don't really know).

Toony Angel builds on the basic idea to use a deck of cards as a flip book, but rather than animate a cartoon character on the back, the angel on the bicycle, from the Bicycle back design, starts to cycle towards you, zips around on the back of the card and...

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Michael Maxwell
Learn to Levitate by Michael Maxwell

Defy gravity! Learn the secret to levitate money, matches, cards, knives, canes, balls and even yourself.

You will learn:

  • The Floating Dollar Bill (with Thread Reel)
  • The Floating Dollar Bill (featuring the "Burr Secret") The Levitating Dollar Bill
  • The Floating Match (Invented by Ben Harris. For more details see Cosmosis.)
  • Swiss Movement (Paul Harris' Animated Pocket Knife)
  • The Floating Card
  • The Dancing Cane
  • The Floating Ball (for stage)
  • The Balducci Levitation (Floating yourself!)
No effect compares to having an ordinary, everyday object seemingly defy gravity. Watch your audience gasp with delight and amazement...
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Michael Maxwell
Incredible Magic at the Bar: Volume 1 by Michael Maxwell

Michael Maxwell's Incredible Magic at the Bar is a six-volume series designed to teach you how to easily master and perform some of the greatest and easiest magic tricks. Each set in the series covers a different and unique type of magic, such as Bar Magic, Card Magic, Coin Magic, Rope Magic, Silk Magic, Impromptu Magic, Mental Magic, Money Magic and many more.

Incredible Magic at the Bar, Volume 1 teaches you effects that are easy to perform on either side of the bar, but especially suitable for bartenders who wish to raise their image to a new level. Return customers are guaranteed; they will...

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Michael Maxwell
Incredible Magic at the Bar: Volume 2 by Michael Maxwell

Contains 17 Amazing Effects:

  1. Appearing and Vanishing Cigarette
  2. Cellophane Connection (Okawa)
  3. Star Warp (Howie Schwartzman/Harry Lorayne)
  4. Spectral Silk (J.C. Wagner)
  5. Raccoonteur
  6. Cut and Restored Rope
  7. Burnt and Restored Napkin
  8. Sponge Rabbits
  9. Card on Forehead
  10. Broken and Rstorted Toothpick
  11. Signed Coin in Sugar Packet
  12. Close-Up Illusion (Larry Jennings)
  13. Swizzlestick
  14. Ultimate Pickpocket (Michael Maxwell)
  15. Coins to Cup (David Roth)
  16. Heading North (David Regal)
  17. Snap Crackle Pop (Tom Ladshaw)

runtime 1h 40min

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Michael Maxwell
Incredible Magic at the Bar: Volume 3 by Michael Maxwell

Contains 19 Amazing Effects:

  1. Dice Stacking
  2. Trained Seal
  3. Floating Glass
  4. Scotch & Soda
  5. Coin in Bottle
  6. Super Memory
  7. Biting a Coin
  8. Ambitious Card/Card Under Drink
  9. Fly Away Jack
  10. Thought-of Card (Maxwell)
  11. Acrobatic Aces
  12. Cutting the Aces
  13. Do As I Do
  14. Jumping Rubber Band
  15. Three-and-a-Half of Clubs Trick
  16. Signed Card to Coffee Cup (Fayne)
  17. Peripatetic Coins (Jennings)
  18. Pretzel Logic (Givan)
  19. 3 1/2 of Clubs/ 14 of Spades/ Blank Card
runtime 1hour 40min
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Michael Maxwell
Incredible Magic at the Bar: Volume 4 by Michael Maxwell

Contains 23 amazing effects:

  1. An Olive in the Hand
  2. Olive & Shaker Routine
  3. Party on the P-A-T-E-O (Maxwell)
  4. Towel Chicken
  5. Card in Shoe
  6. Simple Coins Across (Maxwell)
  7. Toony Angel (Maxwell)
  8. Pencil through Quarter
  9. Bill in Lemon
  10. Card in Ice Cube
  11. Nickel on Forehead
  12. Levitating Salt Shaker
  13. Floating Cup
  14. Ring in Dinner Roll/One-Handed Knot
  15. Stolen Cards (Green)
  16. Laser D'Lite
  17. Gift of Grab (Maxwell)
  18. Whisky/Shoe Production (Green)
  19. Producing Items from a Deck (Green)
  20. Cigarette Through Quarter (Dingle)
  21. Paper Strip (Marotta)
  22. The 14 of Spades Trick
  23. 3 1/2 of Clubs/ 14 of Spades/ Blank Card ...
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Michael Maxwell
Incredible Magic at the Bar: Volume 5 by Michael Maxwell

Contains 20 amazing effects:

  1. Starcle (Harlan)
  2. Indian Bean Mystery
  3. Swallowing a Balloon
  4. Reflex (Harris)
  5. Swiss Movement (Harris)
  6. Gray Elephant in Denmark
  7. 11 Carrots
  8. Ring on Stick (Maxwell)
  9. Ashes through Hand
  10. Chink-A-Chink
  11. Matrix
  12. Out of this World (Lorayne)
  13. Ghost Spoon/Floating Dinner Roll
  14. Copper/Silver Transposition
  15. Miser's Miracle (Andrus)
  16. Cut & Restored Rope (Skinner)
  17. Wild Coin (Roth)
  18. Starcle (Harlan)
  19. The Blank Card
  20. 3 1/2 of Clubs/ 14 of Spades/ Blank Card
runtime 2hour 9min
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Michael Maxwell
Incredible Magic at the Bar: Volume 6 by Michael Maxwell

Contains 38 amazing effects:

  1. Introduction
  2. Dropping a Match on Edge
  3. Coin Cross
  4. Coin Triangle
  5. One of them is not a Dime
  6. Dime for Every Quarter
  7. Heads & Tails
  8. Bill & Bottle
  9. Match Triangle
  10. Picking Up Straws
  11. Ten Dimes in Shot Glass
  12. Bill Between Two Beer Bottles
  13. Circumference vs. Height
  14. Olive in Ashtray
  15. Heckler Shot
  16. Stepping through a Business Card
  17. William Tell Match
  18. The Dry Dime
  19. Squeeze Play
  20. Topsy-Turvy Coins
  21. Centrifugal Force Coin & Glass
  22. Heads & Tails on the Line
  23. Coin Star
  24. Matching Birthdays
  25. Dropping a Matchbox on End
  26. Ten-Cent Shot
  27. Two Shots,...
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Michael Maxwell
Incredible Self-Working Card Tricks: Volume 1 by Michael Maxwell

Michael Maxwell has painstakingly researched and compiled what he considers to be the most amazing "self working card tricks," ever created - amazing tricks requiring no skill! These are killer card tricks to have in your arsenal for those special occasions when someone hands you a deck and says, "Hey, Mr. Magician, show us a trick!" Even if you have never handled a deck of cards before, you can easily master these diabolical effects. Special care has been taken to include effects that are not generally known, even to knowledgeable card men.

Effects Included:

  • Deal/Switch Mystery
  • Lazymans'...
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Michael Maxwell
Incredible Self-Working Card Tricks: Volume 2 by Michael Maxwell

Effects Included:

  • My Lucky Card
  • Sealed with a Kicker (a PDF with the Circle Deck Form is included in the download for convenient printing)
  • Banks' Trapdoor
  • Fantaso
  • The Letter Prediction
  • The Future Deck
  • Impromptu Out of this World
  • Sacramento Aces
  • Free Cut Fantasy
  • Business by Numbers
  • The Initials Will Tell
  • The Master Stop Trick
  • Lazyman's Set-Up
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Michael Maxwell
Incredible Self-Working Card Tricks: Volume 3 by Michael Maxwell

"With the card tricks on these incredible DVDs, you could earn a living!" - Lance Burton, International Superstar Magician

Effects Included:

  • The Telltale Pulse
  • Play it Straight (Triumph)
  • Emotional Reaction
  • Miraskill
  • Do As I Do
  • Three Proofs
  • Linking Cards
  • Card Sealing
  • Simple Arithmetic
  • We 3 Find 3
  • Unbelievable
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Michael Maxwell
Incredible Self-Working Card Tricks: Volume 4 by Michael Maxwell

Effects Included:

  • Thot Echo
  • Clueless Countdown
  • Double Thought
  • 1 in 52 Bet
  • Mystic 15
  • The Lazy Magician
  • Hummer's Little Stranger
  • 5-9-K
  • A Case of Deduction
  • 8 Simple Rules
  • Aces from the Pocket
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Michael Maxwell
Incredible Self-Working Card Tricks: Volume 5 by Michael Maxwell

Effects Included:

  • Stolen Cards
  • Hummer of a Trick
  • Hummer's Revealed Mystery
  • Mind Mirror
  • Flight of the Knave & Queen
  • Torn
  • Follow the Leader
  • 10-Hand Poker Deal
  • Cards Across
  • Absolute Zero
  • Spectator Cuts the Aces
  • Super Closer
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Michael Maxwell
Incredible Self-Working Card Tricks: Volume 6 by Michael Maxwell

Effects Included:

  • The Max Factor
  • Cheating at Poker
  • I Gotta Go
  • The Book Test
  • Self-Control Lie Speller
  • Flighty Aces
  • Magic # Trick
  • Jumbo Two-Way Split
  • Match Game
  • Further Than That
  • Tap Tap Tap
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Michael Maxwell
Incredible Self-Working Card Tricks: Volume 5 (used) by Michael Maxwell

Original DVD. For the content see the download version.

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Michael Maxwell
Incredible Self-Working Card Tricks: Volume 6 (used) by Michael Maxwell

Original DVD. For the content see the download version.

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