New Sorcerer

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

Publisher: Martin Breese