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This is quite an unusual magic magazine. It ran from March 1992 to January 1994 with only 6 issues, but it was from the start planned that way. Each issue was formatted along the lines of another famous magazine from the past.
Martin Breese writes in his introduction:
This will be unlike any other magical magazine ever published, in that each issue will reproduce the format, some of the contents, and the covers of a different magical magazine from the past.
Included in the lineup are Pentagram, The Magic Wand, Wizard, Max Andrews' Magic Magazine, Routine, The Wizard (Selbit).
Contents:
- Issue 1 (Pentagram)
- Your Fate in a Teacup (Peter Warlock)
- Octext (Phil Goldstein)
- Review: "Randy Wakeman Presents" (John Holland)
- The Hilliard Syndrome (Peter Warlock)
- Devilish Sorcery (Charles Cameron)
- Sucker Silks Routine - Part 1 (Ken Brooke)
- Review: "David Copperfield Live" (T.A. Waters)
- Tissue Paper Monte (Tom Sellers)
- Issue 2 (Magic Wand)
- Objective (Roy Johnson)
- True Hue (Phil Goldstein)
- Review: "Lifesavers-Michael Weber" (John Holland)
- Collusion Illusion (Bob Gill)
- Overcon (Bob Farmer)
- Sucker Silks Routine - Part 2 (Ken Brooke)
- Octext - Revisited (Phil Goldstein)
- Issue 3 (Wizard)
- Oil and Water Plus (Dave Campbell)
- Boston Box Routine (Dean Nicholas)
- The Race Is On (Bob Gill)
- Al Koran's Miracle Wallet Routine (Ken Brooke)
- Issue 4 (Magic Magazine)
- A-Musing (Al Smith)
- Confusion Delusion (Al Smith)
- Duplicity (Dave Campbell)
- Ken Brooke's Coin Trick (Ken Brooke)
- Ideas with Ken Brooke's Coin Trick (Bob Gill)
- Hilliard Syndrome - Afterthoughts (Walter Brusa)
- Dean Nicholas' Gypsy Curse Routine (Anthony Owen)
- Issue 5 (A Magazine of Magic)
- Making The Trilby Deck (Bob Gill)
- Trilby Deck Routine (Ken Brooke)
- Issue 6 (The Wizard)
- A Card & Egg Trick (Anon)
- Body Language Challenge (Basil Horwitz)
- Extra Sensory Prediction (Bob Gill)
- Invisible Choice (Bob Gill)
- Boxing Match (Bob Gill)
- Gyro-Compass (Bob Gill)
- Cannibals and Missionaries (Dave Campbell)
1st edition 1992, 1st digital edition 2013, 148 pages.
word count: 63461 which is equivalent to 253 standard pages of text
