New Tops Volume 24 (1984)
by Gordon Miller

Greg Bordner, Publisher
Gordon Miller, Editor

642 pages

1. The New Tops - Volume 24, Number 1 - January 1984 - 56 pages
1. Cover - Tommy Wonder [Jos Bema]
5. Contents
6. Sawdust-Sorcery - Clown Magic For Professionals - Gerald Burns - continued
10. Forum - Bruce Posgate
12. For Women Only - Frances Ireland Marshall
14. Magical Mexican Weekend - Frances Marshall
16. Jeanne Vernon - A Remembrance - Frances Marshall
17. Wacky Words with Answers - Ed Harris
17. Sid Lorraine's Tip of the Month
    • "Amazing 6-Second Solder"
18. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
    • Books, Tricks, Tapes and Things
      • Gary Oullet's [Ouellet's] Homing Ring - Masters of Magic Series No. 16 [Volume 1, Number 6]
      • Card-Go Frame - D. A. Tayade
      • Transposition of Balls - D. A. Tayade
      • small Botania - D. A. Tayade
      • D. A. Tayade - catalog
      • Postal Mental - Bob Mason
      • Double Surprise - Bob Mason
      • Half-Dyed Hank - Billy McComb
      • Cheers - Jim Rainho
      • Passe Passe Joker - Jim Rainho
      • Three's Company - Jim Rainho
      • Money Card - Jim Rainho
      • Easy Gospel Chalk Talks - Ralph Dewey
      • Life on a School Show Tour - Alfred Ulman, Jr.
      • Dry Transfer Playing Card Pips and Indicies - Jeff Busby
      • Larry Becker's World of Super Mentalism - with prop audio tape
      • Gagletter - periodical - Steve Shrott
      • Confounding Copper - Steve Dusheck, Jr.
      • Gold Rush - Steve Dusheck, Jr.
      • Magna Canada - Steve Dusheck, Jr.
      • Diplo-Mental Pouch - Al Mann
      • El Duco's Magic - catalog
      • Ring in Salt - El Duco
      • Legion Box - Venture III
      • Card Modes - Robin Robertson
      • Willie Wabbit & the Carrots - Supreme
      • Color-Splodge Cloth - Supreme
      • Baker's Capers - Roy Baker
23. Magic-Up-Date - Richard Greeno
24. Johnstone's Column - By George [Johnstone]
26. Magic for the Gospel Magician - Ralph Mills
    • Free at Last - Bob Sparks
27. Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
28. Lost in the Forest - John Sherwood
    • Crazy Catalog
29. Vent Views - Bill Boley
    • This is Teaching? - Richard Oden
30. News - re: marker for Inex Blackstone Kitchen
31. Pets 'N Prestidigitation - Hal Diamond
32. The Mind Field - Gary Inglese & Denny Laub
    • Triple Prediction
    • Retrospect
34. Cover Story - Tommy Wonder [Jos Bema]
34. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • Psychological Stop - Extended
35. Convincing Quick 3-Way - Ed Marlo
39. cartoon - Ed Harris
40. Men of Magic - Robert E. Olson
42. cartoon - The Costumer - Philip Morris & David Lady
42. [two] Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
1. S.B.I [Special Bonus Insert]
   • Prediction Feature - Tom Hubbard
   • Snap On - Tom Hubbard
   • Riddle - Tom Hubbard

1. The New Tops - Volume 24, Number 2 - February 1984 - 52 pages
1. Cover - Sid Lorraine
7. Contents
8. For Women Only - Frances Ireland Marshall
11. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
    • miscellaneous
      • Abraham Books - List III
      • Professor Hoffman bibliography - Thomas Sawyer
      • Number 14 News Bulletin - Martin Breese
      • LaWain House of Magic - lists
      • David Ginn - bulletin
      • Unlimited - Norm Osborne & Ed Marlo (1953) - reprinted
      • Gimmick - bulletin from International Youth Organization (India)
      • Magicol
    • Things I Have Been Reading, Studying and Trying, Since Last Month
      • The Psychology of Palming - Ascanio
      • Rising to Any Occasion - Ken Klosterman
      • Lecture Notes No. 3 - John Kennedy
      • Adrian Smith's Instant Magic Square - Karl Fulves
      • Bob Ostin's New Submarine Card - Karl Fulves
      • [Robert Neale's] Trapdoor Card - Karl Fulves
      • A History of the Brainwave Principle - Karl Fulves
      • The Great Halloween Book - Mark Walker
      • The Magic Book - Harry Lorayne
      • Secret Thoughts - Ronald J. Dayton
      • Playing Shopping Centers - Jim Mahoney
      • The Real Secret of the Electric Chairs - Supreme
      • The Delphian Oracle - Al Mann
      • Of Gifts and Talents - Al Mann
      • Pieces of Eight - Al Mann
      • Side-Winder - Ronald J. Dayton
      • Comedy Case - Supreme
      • Your Lucky Number - El Duco Magic
16. Lost in the Forest - John Sherwood
    • Trying Times Magic
      • making a mystic treasure chest
17. Forum - Bruce Posgate
19. Sawdust-Sorcery - Clown Magic For Professionals - Gerald Burns - continued
    • The Order of Your Props
21. Wacky Words with Answers - Ed Harris
22. Men of Magic - Robert E. Olson
26. Johnstone's Column - By George [Johnstone]
28. Pets 'N Prestidigitation - Hal Diamond
30. Magic-Up-Date - Richard Greeno
30. Sid Lorraine's Tip of the Month
    • new style paper clips - Henry O. Silsbee III
31. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • Ambitious Card Routine
32. Magic for the Gospel Magician - Ralph Mills
    • Only One Life? - Impossible! - Bob Sparks
33. The Mind Field - Gary Inglese & Denny Laub
35. Abbott's Magic Talent Contest - Neil Foster
35. Cover Story - Sid Lorraine
36. A Cigarette Gem Attributed to Gentili of Italy - Salvatore Salla & Paul Rosini
37. Under No Spell - Phil Goldatein
    • Under No Spell, Again!
    • Spell No Under!!
39. The Blindfold Grab - Ed Marlo
    • Grabbing a Sandwich
    • Ribbon Rise and Palm

1. The New Tops - Volume 24, Number 3 - March 1984 - 52 pages
1. Cover - Steve Biller
7. Contents
8. Forum - Bruce Posgate
10. The Mind Field - Gary Inglese & Denny Laub
    • Time-Life Books new Series - The Encahnted World
12. An Overview of the 53rd Annual Magi-Fest held February 2-4, 1984 in Columbus, Ohio - Hank Moorehouse
13. Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
14. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
    • miscellaneous
      • Magical Collector's Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 4
      • Larry Thornton - booklet listing video tapes and films
      • The Yankee Magic Collector
      • The Cabot Street Cinema Theatre News
      • Byron Walker - list on circus, side-shows, wild west shows, etc.
    • Books 'N Tricks 'N Other Things
      • Great magicians in Great Moments - Irving Desfor
      • The Close Up Magic of Ray Mertz, Lecture No. 2
      • The Precursor - periodical
      • Current Comedy - periodical
      • The Perennial Mystics #1
      • Letter from Hades
      • Abracadabra
      • Six Impossible Things - Al Mann
      • The Knight's Gambit - Al Mann
      • Breakthrough [sic] - Al Mann
      • Ace Tricks - Nick Trost
      • Classic Card Tricks - Nick Trost
      • Make-Up for Magicians - Harold Long
      • Feats of Memory - Don Carroll
      • The Endless Chain- Supreme Know-How Series
      • Gas Light - Abbott's
      • Mayan Mummies - La Galeria
      • Color Changing Plumes - Sam Dalal
      • Dingbat - Steve Dusheck
      • Magnetic Chinese Ring Illusion - Steve Dusheck
      • Knowing Knot - Jim Rainho
19. Magic for the Gospel Magician - Ralph Mills
    • Comedy Card in Balloon routine - Rev. Paul Henry
20. For Women Only - Frances Ireland Marshall
22. Men of Magic - Robert E. Olson
23. Cover Story - Steve Biller
23. Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
26. Lost in the Forest - John Sherwood
    • The Secret Grove
      • Mystic Treasure Chest
27. Sawdust-Sorcery - Clown Magic For Professionals - Gerald Burns - continued
    • Breakaway Cane
    • An Acting Tip
29. Pets 'N Prestidigitation - Hal Diamond
30. Palm Glide - Ed Marlo
    • As a Multiple Exchange
33. Sid Lorraine's Tip of the Month
    • "Hotshots" hard warmers
33. Johnstone's Column - By George [Johnstone] - no column
34. Final Curtain
    • Joe Berg - by Frances Marshall
35. D/UM.B. - Phil Goldstein
37. Magic-Up-Date - Richard Greeno
38. The Third San Francisco Magic Symposium - reviewed by Byron Walker
39. Abbott's Magic Talent Contest - Neil Foster
40. Cum Grano Salis, or, The "Our Town" Salt Trick - Joe Scott & Robert Parrish
41. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • The Five-Ace Poker Hand
41. Wacky Words with Answers - Ed Harris

1. The New Tops - Volume 24, Number 4 - April 1984 - 52 pages
1. Cover - Tom Mullica
7. photos - changes in Abbott's printing department - re: Walter Schroeder & Tim Wirgau
7. Contents
8. D/UM.B. OCTS - Phil Goldstein
10. This Business of Magic - Thomas Zoss
    • Is There a Doctor in the House?
12. Johnstone's Column - By George [Johnstone]
14. Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
16. For Women Only - Frances Ireland Marshall
18. Forum - Bruce Posgate
20. Lost in the Forest - John Sherwood
    • Mystic Reflections
22. Magic for the Gospel Magician - Ralph Mills
    • Anti-Gravico routine - Bob Sparks
22. Sid Lorraine's Tip of the Month
    • talcum powder for spikes through balloon in tube - Larry White
23. The Mind Field - Gary Inglese & Denny Laub
    • Roy Roth
    • Plink ... Plonk - Roy Roth
    • Flash Vanish - Roy Roth
26. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
    • miscellaneous
      • Tony Vander Linden - list
      • Al's Magic Shop - list
      • The Spellbinder
      • Yogi-Gram
      • Long Beach Mystics Newsletter
      • Le Grand David - poster
      • Venture III - catalog
    • magazines
      • Abracadabra
      • Magigram
      • Supreme Newsletter
      • Current Comedy
      • Complete Comedy Library - Robert Orben
      • Backstage
    • Looking Over the Magazines, Books, Tricks, and Tapes
      • The Christian Conjurer
      • Laugh-Makers
      • Genii
      • The New Pentagram
      • Breakthrough Card System - Richard Osterlind
      • Two Professional Routines - Richard Osterlind
      • !Talk! ... A Panorama of Professional Prose Palaver and Polished Poetical Patter ... A Pastiche - Abbott's
      • The Master Book of Blindfolds - Burling Hull
      • Cord-ially Yours - Ronald J. Dayton
      • I Want to be a Magician - Ken Griffin Productions
      • Worknotes on Brainwave - Karl Fulves
      • Top Knot - Edwin [Hooper]
      • Sleeve Subway - Ken de Courcy
      • Un-Profitable - Steve Dusheck
      • Cornography - Steve Dusheck
      • Changing Card - Steve Dusheck
      • Brainbusters '83 ... On Card Tricks - Al Mann
      • picture silks - Sam Dalal - D. Robbins & Co.
      • Straight Talk About Entertaining Children - audio tape - David Ginn
31. Magic-Up-Date - Richard Greeno
32. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • Picture Card Assembly
32. Abbott's Magic Talent Contest - Neil Foster
33. Men of Magic - Robert E. Olson
35. Cover Story - Tom Mullica
35. Wacky Words with Answers - Ed Harris
36. Surrounded Open Traveler - Ed Marlo
    • First Method
    • Second Method
    • Third Method
39. Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
40. A Long Day's Knight! - Hank Moorehouse

1. The New Tops - Volume 24, Number 5 - May 1984 - 52 pages
1. Cover - Larry Becker
7. Contents
8. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
   • In the Mail
     • Magic-Info
     • Invocation
     • lists - El Duco, Lee Jacobs (catalog), Rabbit In The Hat Ranch, Paul Diamond's Fun Shop
     • Repro Magic - catalog
     • Current Comedy
     • Trapdoor #2 - Steve Beam
   • Among the Club Papers
     • The Christian Conjurer
     • Yogi-Gram
     • Long Beach Mystics Newsletter
     • Magicana
     • Silent Messenger
     • Bat Droppings
     • Clowns Canada
     • A Letter from Hades
     • The Spellbinder
     • Top Hat
   • Magazines and Books
     • Epoptica, January
     • Self Working Number Magic - Karl Fulves
     • Mendoza Portfolio 1 - John Mendoza
     • Trapdoor #1 - Steve Beam
     • Super Stack - Steve Beam
     • Paul Fox's Miracle Gimmick [1947] - Jeff Busby or Abbott's
     • Pentra Bill - Gene Anthony
     • Mental Card Miracles - Nick Trost
     • Danson's Diary Trick - Ken de Courcy
     • Ringlock - Ken de Courcy
     • Devil's Handkerchief - La Galaria
     • Die-Sation - La Galaria
     • Bill Box - or, Mini-Trunk - La Galaria
     • Chain Reaction - Bud Dietrich & Steve Dusheck
     • C.R.5 - Steve Dusheck
     • Flip's Magic, Vol. 1 & 2 - Videonics
     • The Wocus Legacy - Al Mann
13. This Business of Magic - Thomas Zoss
    • A Unique Magical Get Well Note!
15. Lost in the Forest - John Sherwood
    • The Secret Grove
16. Wacky Words with Answers - Ed Harris
17. Forum - Bruce Posgate
19. Magic for the Gospel Magician - Ralph Mills
    • Flexible Glass routine - Alan Skogerbo
20. The Abbott Magic Company's Fifth Annual Close-Up Convention
    21. photos
    23. photos
24. Inside Chavez
    25. photos
26. For Women Only - Frances Ireland Marshall
29. Annual Awards Banquet - Academy of Magical Arts
35. The Mind Field - Gary Inglese & Denny Laub
    • Becker on Becker
    • Commercial Effects by Larry Becker
    • Books by Larry Becker
    • Unbalanced - Larry Becker
38. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • Deucy-Deucy Routine
39. Pets 'N Prestidigitation - Hal Diamond
40. Sid Lorraine's Tip of the Month
    • Milk of Magnesia for a milk sustitute
40. Abbott's Magic Talent Contest - Neil Foster
41. Magic-Up-Date - Richard Greeno

1. The New Tops - Volume 24, Number 6 - June 1984 - 52 pages
1. Cover - Tom & Sherrie
7. Contents
8. Pets 'N Prestidigitation - Hal Diamond
9. Abbott's Magic Talent Contest - Neil Foster
10. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
    • In the Mail
      • Mid-America Magic Mfg. Co. - catalog
      • Sorcerer - Martin Breese - periodical
    • Notes and Comments on Books, Tricks and Magical Tapes
      • EXTRAvaganza Supplementary Catalog No. 34 - Supreme
      • Cards in Action - Shaun Yee
      • Indian Cups and Balls - P. K. Ilango
      • Razzle-Dazzle Ribbons - Supreme
      • Ghost Card Cutter - Larry Becker
      • Incredi-Go - Al Cohen
      • Izod - Al Cohen
      • Jenny-U-Wan Magic - Ronald J. Dayton
      • Four Seasons in the Life of Val Andrews - Micky Hades International
      • Magic Castle Lecture Notes - Al Mann
      • The Kolophon - Al Mann
      • Multi-Colored Rope Link - Sam Dalal
      • Colorful Chord - Ron Frost
      • Waltzing Matilda - Steve Dusheck
      • T.A.F.P. - Ken McCreedy
      • Burling Volta Hull on cassette tape - Sammy Smith
      • Bob Read, Volumes 1 & 2 - Videonics
15. For Women Only - Frances Ireland Marshall
17. Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
18. The Mind Field - Gary Inglese & Denny Laub
    • Ye Mage's Timepiece - Tony Andruzzi aka Masklyn Ye Mage
    • My First Card Trick - Hank Moorehouse
19. cartoon - The Costumer - Philip Morris & David Lady
20. Royal Routines! - Ed Marlo
    • First Routine
    • Second Routine
    • Third Routine
23. Cover Story - Tom & Sherrie
24. Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
26. Tom-Foolery - Tom Mullica
28. Johnstone's Column - By George [Johnstone]
29. Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
30. Forum - Bruce Posgate
32. Magic for the Gospel Magician - Ralph Mills
    • Round-The-Block routine - Art Zachman
32. Sid Lorraine's Tip of the Month
    • sharpening scissors on a steel rod
33. This Business of Magic - Thomas Zoss
    • Free Advice is Worth What You Pay for it!
34. Lost in the Forest - John Sherwood
    • Trying Times Magic
      • salacious game/stunt
35. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • Double Do As I Do
    • A Stacking Demonstration
36. cartoon - The Costumer - Philip Morris & David Lady
36. Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
37. Men of Magic - Robert E. Olson
    • A Pedestal Clock

1. The New Tops - Volume 24, Number 7 - July 1984 - 52 pages
1. Cover - Doug Anderson
7. Contents
8. Execution! - Ed Marlo
   • First Method
   • Second Method
   • Third Method
14. Abbott's Magic Talent Contest - Neil Foster
15. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
    • miscellaneous
      • Impromptu Magic - Bill Severn
      • Walking Through a Steel Plate - Supreme
      • Catching a Marked Bullet with the Teeth - Frank Sinclair
      • Fore-Sight - Supreme
      • Atomic Change Cup - Armandi
      • How-To Book on the Zombie - Merlyn T. Shute
      • Micro's No Force Book Test - Joe White
      • Purple Orange Eater - David Ginn
      • Ninety Minutes with Harold Martin - lecture notes
      • Kendal Playing Card Sales - listing of unusual playing cards
      • Side Effects - lecture notes - Michael Weber
      • We're Roasting Harry Tuesday Night - Ed McManus & Bill Nicholls
      • Precursor, Numbers 3 & 4
      • 2nd Chance - David Mark
      • E-Z Match Producer - D. Robbins & Co.
      • metal coin slide - D. Robbins & Co.
      • New Invocation, Numbers 19 & 20
      • No Man Within - Al Mann
      • Comedy Card Magic - Owen Moore's Almanack
19. Wacky Words with Answers - Ed Harris
20. For Women Only - Frances Ireland Marshall
23. This Business of Magic - Thomas Zoss
    • Words to the Wise from a Working Pro
26. Forum - Bruce Posgate
28. Lost in the Forest - John Sherwood
    • The Secret Grove
      • re: American Museum of Magic
29. Magic-Up-Date - Richard Greeno
30. Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
31. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • The Siamese Aces
31. cartoon - The Costumer - Philip Morris & David Lady
32. Magic for the Gospel Magician - Ralph Mills
    • Abbott's Arrowhead Illusion routine
33. Acrobatic Dice - Barry Govan
34. Sid Lorraine's Tip of the Month
    • "Ruxton Linen Finish, Plastic Coated" deck - Ron Logsdon
35. School Assembly Shows - Norm Barnhart
36. Cover Story - Doug Anderson
37. The Mind Field - Gary Inglese & Denny Laub
    • Resolution - Revisited
    • Euchre Mental
    • Strange Secrets - Volume One - Abbott's
39. Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson

1. The New Tops - Volume 24, Number 8 - August 1984 - 52 pages
1. Cover - Jerry & Shirley Conklin
5. Contents
6. For Women Only - Frances Ireland Marshall
9. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
   • miscellaneous
     • With A Bunch of Help From His Friends - lecture notes - Rick Johnsson
     • Rabbit in the Hat Ranch - newsletter
     • The Cardinal Cards - Meir Yedid
     • Poor Charlie - Derek Dingle
     • The Stapled Card - Jim Steinmeyer
     • Killer Diller Cards Across - Daryl
     • Eddie Joseph on Cups and Balls - reprint of four earlier books
     • Hindu Cups & Balls - Eddie Joseph
     • Taurus Magical Supply - catalog
     • Communications - Douglas C. Andrews
     • Robert Harbin - Martin Breese
     • Flip On Stage - Videonics
     • Diminishing and Stretching Color Changing Wand - Harold Beaumont
     • Napoleon's Natty Napper - Supreme
     • The Conjurer - correspondence cards - Supreme
     • Book-A-Log 20 - Micky Hades International
     • Cigarette to Silk - Chu's Magic Studio
     • Bead-Wildered - Ron Frost
     • Unmatched! Unbelievable! - Sam Berland
     • Epoptica Yearbook - Jeff Busby
     • Almanac - Richard Kaufman - bound first volume
14. Magic for the Gospel Magician - Ralph Mills
    • Beads of Prussia routine - Art Zachman
14. Wacky Words with Answers - Ed Harris
15. Forum - Bruce Posgate
17. Vent Views - Bill Boley
    • Fractured Nursery Rhymes, Song & Poems - book - Col. Bill Boley
    • Christmas Gag File - book - Col. Bill Boley
    • Old Indian Fighter - dialogue
19. School Assembly Shows - Norm Barnhart
20. Lost in the Forest - John Sherwood
    • The Secret Grove
      • re: American Museum of Magic
21. cartoon - The Costumer - Philip Morris & David Lady
22. Magic-Up-Date - Richard Greeno
22. cartoon - Ed Harris
23. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • The Bridge Deck
24. Tom-Foolery - Tom Mullica
26. Sid Lorraine's Tip of the Month
    • tip for Nick Trost's Showdown - John M. Herbert
27. Johnstone's Column - By George [Johnstone]
28. Pets 'N Prestidigitation - Hal Diamond
29. This Business of Magic - Thomas Zoss
    • The Professional Approach to Personal Publicity
30. Imperfekt Lokasion - Phil Goldstein
32. Cover Story - The Amazing Conklins! - Jerry and Shirley
33. [ Invitation to Mystery ] 3rd Series - Stewart James
    • The Unloser!
34. Printout - Barry Govan
35. Special - Harlan Tarbell Ring 43 Annual Magic Show - Clettis Musson
37. Routining Magic For Live Video - Gerald Burns
    • Thimble Routine
40. The Digital Clock - Ed Marlo
42. Men of Magic - Robert E. Olson

1. The New Tops - Volume 24, Number 9 - September 1984 - 52 pages
1. Cover - All Trick Issue
2. [four] Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
1. Contents
2. Magic That Perks - Harry E. Cecil
   2. Forword
   3. Introduction
   4. Opening Patter - And Now ... Please Bring Your Chairs Up Close and Learn Something ... The Start
   5. The Fir Tree
   7. Banana Bag
   8. Comedy Egg Bag
   10. Laundry Ticket
   10. Sun and Moon
   13. Slate Prophecy
   15. Card in Cigarette
   16. World's Worst Magician's Royal Flush Card Effect
   17. 'Sure Enuf' Card Effect
   18. The Old Pink Lemonade Stand
   19. Lines of Pater
   20. Middle-Words
   21. Your Kind Attention is Now Directed to Part Two of Magic That Perks
   21. The Animal Chase
   23. One of the Ups and Downs of Magic - Billy Russell
   23. New Finish for the Max Sterling Egg Trick - Billy Russell
   24. Anti-Slip in the Stack of Bowls Production - Billy Russell
   24. To Prove the Absences of Any Connection with a Piece of Apparatus - Billy Russell
       • Second Method
   24. Russell's Watch Board - Billy Russell
   25. The Silk Cocoon - Percy Abbott
   26. Spelling Trick
   27. A Version OF The Cups And Balls With The Use Of Large Cups - Howard G. Strickler & John Snyder, Jr.
   29. Clean Cut Color Change
   29. The Straight-Jacket [card] - J.J. Crimmins, Jr.
   30. The Case of the Four Kings - J.J. Crimmins, Jr.
   31. Subconscious Card Control - Dr. William Bates
   32. A Sympathetic Spelling Bee
   32. Color Harmony
   33. Telephone Card Trick
   33. Fun with Second Dealing
   34. Original Coin Act - T.J. Crawford
   37. The "Fitz" Hat Rack
   37. Slate Divination
   38. Imitation Beer
   38. Mind Reading Extraordinary
   39. Scotch Thrift
   39. A Silly Opening Trick
   40. Dual Attraction - Reginald Eaton Clark
   41. "Relue's" Ropes and Cups
   42. The "G" Men and the Joker
   43. The Plating of a Load in a Borrowed Hat
       • Patter
   44. A Card Problem - Paul Noffke
       • Patter
   46. An Unusual Card Change - Al Saal
   46. Spelling Trick Supreme - Abe Warsaw
   48. And Now the Balloon Goes Up
   48. After-Words
   3. The last Words
3. [two] Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
4. [four] Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris

1. The New Tops - Volume 24, Number 10 - October 1984 - 56 pages
1. Cover - Les Duraty
5. Contents
6. Letter From The Editor - Gordon Miller
6. Wacky Words with Answers - Ed Harris
6. Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
7. The Mind Field - Gary Inglese & Denny Laub
   • Leo Warren
   • Leo Warren's Billet Switch #1
8. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
   • Advertising in the Mail
     • John A. Greget - listing
     • Mid-America Magic Mfg. - catalog
     • Sun Magic - list
     • B & P Hackhofer - catalog
     • Venture III - catalog
     • U.S.T. Magic Co. - catalog
     • La Wain House of Magic - list #146
   • Other Things Worth Mentioning
     • Notes on the Attic, Nis. 16 & 27 - Bruce Dunn
     • Magic Collector's Bulletin, July
     • Video Magic Index - Larry Thornton
     • The Martin Studio - catalog - rubber stamps
   • Books, Tricks and Things Like That
     • This is a Major Credit Card - gag - Abbott's
     • Vocab - The $100.00 Dictionary Test - Gary Inglese & Denny Laub
     • two nested locked boxes - Abbott's
     • Words on Wonder - S. H. Sharpe
     • The Moore the Merrier - lecture notes - 'Romany' Bob Moore
     • Lecture No. 1 - Ray Mertz
     • Numetrics - Arthur Setterington
     • Jenny-U-Wan Magic, Part Two - Ronald J. Dayton
     • Jenny-U-Wan Magic, Part Three - Ronald J. Dayton
     • The Perennial Mystics #2 - James Hagy
     • book on clown magical party work - Don "The Clown" Sminky
     • Magic Toothpaste - Ted Carrother's Magic Studio
     • Magic With An E.S.P. Deck - Sam Dalal - Ted Carrother's Magic Studio
     • Sleight of Tongue - Harry Allen
     • Sleight of Tongue in Cheek - Harry Allen
     • Burnt Offering - Dexterity Promotions
     • Ollapodrida - Alton Sharpe - periodical
     • The Psychic Fish - Sid Lorraine
     • Celestial Thought - Ken de Courcy
     • All Clear Forcing Bag - Maurice Fogel
     • Jardine Ring - Chu's Magic Studio
     • Chu's Coin Box - Chu's Magic Studio
     • The Phil Matlin Video Lecture - Videonics
13. Tom-Foolery - Tom Mullica
16. Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
17. Forum - Bruce Posgate
19. Sid Lorraine's Tip of the Month
    • aluminum foil to sharpen scissors - Oran B. Dent
19. cartoon - The Costumer - Philip Morris & David Lady
20. Magic for the Gospel Magician - Ralph Mills
    • Abbott's Traveling Blocks routine - Art Zachman
21. Pets 'N Prestidigitation - Hal Diamond
22. 1984 Abbott's Magic Get-Together
22. photos
24. photos
26. photos
28. photos
30. photos
32. photos

Publisher: Abbott Magic