New Tops Volume 31 (1991)
by Gordon Miller

Greg Bordner, Publisher
Gordon Miller, Editor

679 pages

1. The New Tops - Volume 31, Number 1 - January 1991 - 56 pages
1. Cover - James Dimmare & Lisa
5. Contents
6. Counter Intelligence - reviews
   • Turtles & Ninjas and More ... Oh My! - Frank Thurston
   • Impossibila - Video - John Bannon
   • Letter from hades - periodical
   • Imagication - T.G. Murphy
   • Edward A. Schurman - list
   • Sell Your Act With Letters - audio tape - Samuel Patrick Smith
   • Robert Nelson [NC] - list
   • Hind-Sight - Bob Solari
   • Symbol Sensory - Bob Solari
   • Magicana - periodical
   • Cabot St. Cinema Theatre News - periodical
   • Magin' Good - periodical
   • Pocket Dragon - Magical Entertainments
   • Bag-O-Trix - Abbott's compendium
   • Frisbee Dollar Bill - Mike Bornstein
   • Original Commercial Routines with Okito & Boston Coin Boxes - Mike Bornstein
   • The Comedy Calculator Deck - Mike Bornstein
   • The Professional Entertainer's Booking and Selling Manual - Roberta & Ken Griffin
11. Sticks & Stones - Jon Racherbaumer
    • Scatter Aces - Edward Marlo
14. Protecting Trade Secrets! - Keeping The Mystery In Magic - Geoffrey Hansen
17. Wacky Words with Answers - Ed Harris
18. Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
20. The Ball Brothers' Traveling Circus (Start-O-Spheres) - Samuel Patrick Smith
23. This Business of Magic - Thomas Zoss
    • Getting the Press - or - The Importance of the Public Eye
    • A Cute Idea
    • Have You Entered the Contest Yet?
24. cartoon - Ed Harris
25. Magic - Madness and Merriment - Dean Montalbano
    25. Counterfeiting Is A Federal Offense!
    27. How To Snag A Hooker
29. Cover Story - re: James Dimmare - by Geoffrey Hansen
31. Pets 'N Prestidigitation - Hal Diamond
32. Magic-Up-Date - Richard & Nancy Greeno
33. Foursq - Phil Goldstein
34. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • Ed Weiss' Open Prediction
    • Nick Trost's Open Prediction
35. Minister's Magic - Jack Alexander
    • Sin
36. Woody's Place - Kenny Woodward, Jr.
    • Abbott's Palanquin Plus
40. Personality Parade - Geoffrey Hansen
    • The Son of Dr. Who?
43. Men of Magic - Robert Olson
    • The Davenport Brothers
45. Riddle Rebus with Answers - Ed Harris
46. Tony Kardyro's Magical Highway

1. The New Tops - Volume 31, Number 2 - February 1991 - 56 pages
1. Cover - Barclay Shaw
5. Contents
6. Counter Intelligence - reviews
   • Self-Working Rope Magic - Karl Fulves
   • Flora & Co. - list
   • Bingo Bombshell - poster/effect - Meir Yedid
   • Club 71 - periodical
   • PM Principle - Michael Powers
   • The Ultimate Holey Terror II - The Sequel - Michael Powers
   • Top Secret Stuff - Michael Powers
   • Magigram - periodical
   • Inside Magic - periodical
   • Precursor, No. 29 - periodical
   • The Professional Seance - Craig S. Armes
   • Abracadabra - weekly
   • Ultra Cervon - Brue Cervon
   • Top Hat - periodical
   • Quadraplex - Nick Trost
   • 4-Gone Conclusion - Nick Trost
   • Destiny Deck - Nick Trost
   • The Christian Conjurer - periodical
   • Pandora's Lox - Bob Solari
   • Workers - Mike Close
   • The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley - soon available
12. Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
13. Procket - Phil Goldstein
14. Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
    • Caroline E. Merrill - obituary
    • Dorothy A. Cook - obituary
17. Magic-Up-Date - Richard & Nancy Greeno
17. cartoon - Ed Harris
18. Magic - Madness and Merriment - Dean Montalbano
    • Nailed and Screwed!
19. This Business of Magic - Thomas Zoss
    • Newsy Letters or Newsletters?
    • Have You Entered the Contest Yet?
20. Personality Parade - Geoffrey Hansen
    • A Magician's Look at Kreskin
22. Woody's Place - Kenny Woodward, Jr.
    • Abbott's $1,000.00 Challenge Dove Vanish
24. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • Matched Picture Cards - Tom Hubbard's Version
    • Nu-Climax Prediction
30. Three Magic Words - Rick Fisher
32. Pets 'N Prestidigitation - Hal Diamond
    • Barclay Shaw
35. Sticks & Stones - Jon Racherbaumer
    • Mental & Physical Sympathy - Edward Marlo
37. Men of Magic - Robert Olson
    • Joseph Michael Hartz
42. Wacky Words with Answers - Ed Harris
42. Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
43. Tony Kardyro's Magical Highway
    • An Early Cigarette Routine
    • The Homing Ring
47. cartoon strip - Ed Harris

1. The New Tops - Volume 31, Number 3 - March 1991 - 62 pages
1. Cover - Senor Rai and Tillie
5. Contents
6. Magic-Up-Date - Richard & Nancy Greeno
7. Counter Intelligence - reviews
   • Handbook for the Theme Park Magician - Wayne Wissner
   • Improved Hypno Silks - Nick DePalma
   • Dazzle Deck - Toscanelli
   • Desert Victory! - Jim Connor
   • Cape Cod III Extra - Hank Lee
   • Get Booked by School Agents - Gary Wick
   • Design Perception - Bob Solari
   • Chalk Talk Stunts - Ed Harris
   • The Man Who Was Erdnase - Martin Gardner, Bart Whaley & Jeff Busby
   • Brother Hamman's Final Ace Routine - re-introduced
   • The Magic Collectors' Association
   • The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley - Volume One - Stephen Minch
14. Subject: Illusions - David Seebach
18. Sticks & Stones - Jon Racherbaumer
    • Hamman's Second In Command - Lin Searles version
20. Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
23. Lost in the Forest - John Sherwood
24. cartoon - Ed Harris
29. Woody's Place - Kenny Woodward, Jr.
    • Gypsy Thread
33. This Business of Magic - Thomas Zoss
    • A "Great" Magician - re: Alexander Great
    • Have You Entered the Contest Yet?
34. Invitation to Mystery, Third Series - Stewart James
    • Guaranteed
35. Magic - Madness and Merriment - Dean Montalbano
    • A Familiar Ring
36. Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
37. Three Magic Words - Rick Fisher
38. Clowning with Dune Buggy [Col. Jim Russell]
39. Minister's Magic - Jack Alexander
    • Liquid Penetration routine
39. cartoon - Ed Harris
40. Mathemagician's Delight - Werner Miller
41. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • "Squeeky Clean" Automatic Poker
    • Automatic Poker - A Different Handling
42. Wacky Words with Answers - Ed Harris
43. Men of Magic - Robert Olson
47. Cover Story - re: Senor Rai and Company
1. two-page advertising insert

1. The New Tops - Volume 31, Number 4 - April 1991 - 56 pages
1. Cover - "Mr. Electric"
5. Contents
6. Close Up Convention No. 12
14. Bouquets & Blossoms - Tricks With Spring Flowers - Ravelle & Andree
    • Ball to Bouquet
    • Egg to Bouquet
    • Flower Frame
    • Flower Bird
    • Watch to Bouquet
    • Candle Bouquet
    • Milk - Silk & Flowers
    • Seed Cake
    • Silk to Bouquet
    • Bountiful Bouquets
    • Pipe to Flowers
    • Climax Cups & Balls
    • Scent of Flowers
    • Comedy Bulb
    • Instant Flowers
    • Double Bouquet Production from Bare Hands
    • "I See You Are a Vegetarian"
    • My Sock Trick!
    • The Bride's Band
    • Flower Wand
    • Bouquet from Paper
    • Gone to Seed!
    • Flower Shower
    • Tipsy Tulip Bouquet
    • Self-Raising Flour (Flower)
22. Counter Intelligence - reviews
    • Card to Wallet - The Book - Jerry Mentzer
    • Cavorting Ladies - Jon Racherbaumer
    • Synergistic Sandwiches - Jon Racherbaumer
    • Swipe - new periodical - Jon Racherbaumer
    • Flora & Co. - mailings
    • Clown Skits for Everyone - Happy Jack Feder
    • Mark's Mental Miracle - Mark Tripp
    • Abracadabra - weekly
    • Solari's Lock Routine - Bob Solari
    • The 2nd British Close-Up Magic Symposium - Mark Leveridge
    • Micro Clip - Mark Leveridge
    • Coin Miracles - Dan Fleshman
    • The Very Best, Yet! - Dan Fleshman
    • Magic on Video - videotape Dan Fleshman
31. Subject: Illusions - David Seebach
    • Mr. Bakery (1894-1959)
34. Vent Views - Bill Boley
    • The Flat Foot - Col. Bill Boley
37. Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
40. Sticks & Stones - Jon Racherbaumer
    • Laziest Man's Card Trick (Edward Marlo)
43. Three Magic Words - Rick Fisher
44. Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
    • With the Pips from a Deck of Cards
45. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • Tom Hubbard's Matched Picture Cards - The Final Version
46. This Business of Magic - Thomas Zoss
    • Contest News
47. [two] cartoon - Ed Harris

1. The New Tops - Volume 31, Number 5 - May 1991 - 56 pages
1. Cover - Vito Lupo
5. Contents
6. Capers with Papers - Bill West
   • Table Cloth
   • Laundry Bag
   • Pig
   • Tree
   • Ladder
   • Star
   • Patter
10. Subject: Illusions - David Seebach
15. Mathemagician's Delight - Werner Miller
    • Re-Visited ... Twice!
      • Re-Visit #1 - W.L. Broecker
      • Re-Visit #2 - James E. Sansotera
18. Clowning with Dune Buggy [Col. Jim Russell]
25. Sticks & Stones - Jon Racherbaumer
    • estimation of number of cards
    • Gussied-Up Guesstimation (Jon Racherbaumer)
26. Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
27. Magic - Madness and Merriment - Dean Montalbano
    • POP! Goes Orville Redenbacher
30. Lost in the Forest - John Sherwood
31. Three Magic Words - Rick Fisher
32. Magic-Up-Date - Richard & Nancy Greeno
33. Counter Intelligence - reviews
    • Presenting the B. J. Hickman Magic Show! - videotape
    • Hell Bent - Bob Solari
    • Animated Card Thru Balloon of Death - Kevin James
    • Perrier with a Twist - Kevin James
    • The Floating Rose - The Video - Kevin James
    • On the Other Hand - Dean A. Montalbano
    • Cabot Street Cinema Theatre Newsletter
    • Top Hat, March/April issue
    • Norm Nielsen Magic - list of posters
    • Digital Card Scanner - Ben Harris
    • Robinson's Mysteries - press kit on disk
    • Surprise Prediction - Mario Choiniere
    • Thavant - Phil Goldstein
    • Precursor, issue #30
    • Utopia Card Fame - Mark Leveridge
39. Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
41. Pets 'N Prestidigitation - Hal Diamond
43. Cover Story - re: Vito Lupo
44. The First Annual "Open Colon" Golf Classic - Recollections by Al The Only
45. Woody's Place - Kenny Woodward, Jr.
    • A Potpourri of Things I Cannot Print
      • Crystal Casket
      • Waltzing Matilda
      • The World's Fastest Card Trick
47. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • Red & Blue Opener Improved

1. The New Tops - Volume 31, Number 6 - June 1991 - 56 pages
1. Cover - Mike Caldwell
5. Contents
6. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
   • Expert False Dealing Demonstration
   • Bottoms-Seconds-Centers Demonstration
8. Magic-Up-Date - Richard & Nancy Greeno
9. Questions & Answers - interview with The Pendragons
15. Sticks & Stones - Jon Racherbaumer
    • Weigh To Go
17. Lost in the Forest - John Sherwood
    • satanism
18. Pets 'N Prestidigitation - Hal Diamond
19. Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
20. Subject: Illusions - David Seebach
24. Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
29. This Business of Magic - Thomas Zoss
    • Half a Century a Clown
30. Cuttest - Phil Goldstein
32. Day-tector - Werner Miller
33. Magic - Madness and Merriment - Dean Montalbano
    • !Rehcabneder Ellivro Seog !POP - Onablatnom Olegna Nead
34. Three Magic Words - Rick Fisher
35. Personality Parade - Geoffrey Hansen
    • Vince Carmen
37. Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
38. Woody's Place - Kenny Woodward, Jr.
    • Serendipity
40. Men of Magic - Robert Olson
42. Counter Intelligence - reviews
    • The Magic of Michael Ammar - Michael Ammar
    • laugh-Makers - periodical
    • Safety Magic for Children - Kaptain Karl Wagner
    • Special F/X - Aerotechnics - catalog
    • Magick - periodical
    • The Master Index [of Marlo's Revolutionary Card Technique] - Ken Simmons
    • A Letter from hades - newsletter
    • Flora & Co. - newsletter
    • How to Eat Fire Without Indigestion - Benjamin Garth & Jeffrey W. Cowan
    • Your Card - Bob Solari
    • The Art of Magic - The Magic of Art - William V. Rauscher
    • Karl Fulves - The Latest - listing
    • The Wrinkles Collection - Mark Leveridge
    • Michael Ammar poster - Lee Jacobs Productions
46. Tony Kardyro's Magical Highway
47. Cover Story - re: Mike Caldwell

1. The New Tops - Volume 31, Number 7 - July 1991 - 56 pages
1. Cover - Terry Seabrooke
5. Contents
6. Counter Intelligence - reviews
   • Mark Allen Productions - catalog
   • Plastic Lady - Don England
   • The New Georgia Magnet Act - Thomas Jorgenson
   • The Spider Network
   • Magic - Stan Allen - new periodical
   • Square One [Phil Goldstein, editor]
   • Twisty - Frank Herman
   • Glo-Loop - Frank Herman
   • The Enlightened Magicians - Michael Jeffreys
7. announcements
   • new advertising rate chart
   • new subscription rates
   • new (temporary) facilities fro the Get-Together
   • only a few openings left for the Talent Contest
10. Subject: Illusions - David Seebach
13. Three Magic Words - Rick Fisher
14. Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
16. Magic for Children - Paul Davis Tutherow, Jr.
17. Vent Views - Bill Boley
    • A Trip to the Circus - Col. Bill Boley
20. Clowning with Dune Buggy [Col. Jim Russell]
22. Pets 'N Prestidigitation - Hal Diamond
23. Woody's Place - Kenny Woodward, Jr.
    23. Slap Plank!
    29. The Day of the Locust
30. Johnstone's Column - By George [Johnstone]
32. Riddle Rebus with Answers - Ed Harris
33. Magic - Madness and Merriment - Dean Montalbano
    • The Toast of the Town
34. Magic-Up-Date - Richard & Nancy Greeno
35. Lost in the Forest - John Sherwood
36. Trio! - Wolfgang Riebe
    36. The Gypsy Thread Trick - A Novel Presentation
    37. Mirror Cards
    38. An Elephant Balloon Model
39. Men of Magic - Robert Olson
    • Robert-Houdin
40. Cover Story - re: Terry Seabrooke
41. Royal Speller - Phil Goldstein
42. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • The Open Prediction (My Method)
    • Double-Back Un Hummer
43. Personality Parade - Geoffrey Hansen
    • Gerard Majax - The Magical Frenchman
44. Tony Kardyro's Magical Highway
47. cartoon - Ed Harris

1. The New Tops - Volume 31, Number 8 - August 1991 - 56 pages
1. Cover - November 1961 cover with Karrell Fox
5. Contents
6. Magic - Madness and Merriment - Dean Montalbano
   • The Hazards of Nuclear Fall-Out
7. Three Magic Words - Rick Fisher
   • Passe Bottles
   • Tipsy Turvy Bottles (Tricky Bottles)
   • Vanishing Milk Bottle
8. Lost in the Forest - John Sherwood
   • The Skeptical Psychic
11. Vent Views - Bill Boley
    • Smart Kid - Ron Scherer
14. Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
17. Counter Intelligence - reviews
    • Magic Comedycards - Bob Shelly Comedy Magic
    • Conjurer's Hydraulic and Pneumatic Secrets - S.H. Sharpe
    • Abracadabra - weekly
    • Flora & Co. - Advanced Marketing Conference
    • Life Savers - Michael Weber
    • Marker Marksman - Bob Solari
    • Houdini's History of Magic in Boston - Meyer Magic Books
    • Newmann: The Pioneer Mentalist - Meyer Magic Books
    • The Wizard Exposed - Meyer Magic Books
    • Life & Times of Augustus Rapp (New Edition) - Meyer Magic Books
    • Illusion Show - David Bamberg - Meyer Magic Books
    • Cabot St. Cinema Theatre News
    • Current Comedy - periodical
    • Magigram - periodical
    • Using Magic - In Drug and Alcohol Prevention Presentations - Chris Manos
    • Plastic Lady - Don England
    • Magick - periodical
    • There's a Trick In It - Geoffrey Scalbert
    • Neil D'Mayne's Rope Magic
    • Controlled Table Hopping - Rex Taylor
    • Christian Conjurer - periodical
    • Simply Harkey - David Harkey
23. Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
24. Cover Story - re: Karrell Fox "The King of Corn"
    29. Karrell Fox's Korny-Bill-Kollection
33. Sticks & Stones - Jon Racherbaumer
    • Freeze!
35. Scrap Square - Werner Miller
36. Poker Square - Werner Miller
39. Pets 'N Prestidigitation - Hal Diamond
40. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • Cards and Dice Prediction
41. Men of Magic - Robert Olson
    • Robert-Houdin
43. Magic-Up-Date - Richard & Nancy Greeno
44. Tony Kardyro's Magical Highway
47. Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris

1. The New Tops - Volume 31, Number 9 - September 1991 - 56 pages
1. Cover - All Trick Issue
2. Contents
2. Forword - Percy Abbott
2. Introduction
3. The "Tobba" Mystery
4. Who Knows The Card?
5. Incredulousy True
7. Two Secret Thoughts
8. Memory Phenomenal
9. Over The Wire
10. The Mystic Queen
12. One-Eye Joe
13. The Expert Cuts
14. Can You See Your Card?
14. Cards In Confusion
16. The Forerunner
17. Give Me Another Chance
18. Just Unbelievable
19. Confused Four Aces
21. Everything Goes By Three
22. Triple Discovery
23. Your Number
24. Confusingly SImple
25. The Personality Touch
26. The Mystery Of The Unknown Card
26. The Magician And The Bridge Fiend
29. Topping In Poker, Too!
31. A Discovery And Its Possibilities
33. What's Your Card? Take It Away!

Publisher: Abbott Magic