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Learned in 1957. A top pro society and nightclub magician in Los Angeles. Taught Jason Randal in exchange for karate lessons. Also taught magic course in Los Angeles Community College. In 1990s turned to trade-shows.

Wrote Take a Stroll with Me (1989, 16pp), Miller's Dice (1995, 2pp), and Nothing up My (Green) Sleeves! (1998, 28pp). Articles and tricks in Genii, Talisman, and MUM. Columnist for The Magic Menu.

Learned at age 17 from books at New York City branch library. Then a student of Eddie Fechter. Moved to Hollywood in 1967, studying under Dai Vernon and Larry Jennings. Top-line pro close-up. AMA Best Close-up Magician 1971 and 1974. Mentor of Bob King and Robert Lansing. Cruise ship worker and magic shop demonstrator. Resident magician at Golden Nugget (Lily Langtry Room, etc) in Las Vegas since 1976.

See Jeff Busby, Michael Skinner's Intimate Magic (1982, 45pp); Mike Maxwell, Michael Skinner's Ultimate 3 Card Monte (1990, 20pp); and Classic Sampler (1996, 113pp). Tricks in Talisman, Epilogue, Arcane, Magic, Magic Menu.

The protagonist of William Murray's 5 detective novels (a nightclub...

Moved to Borger, Texas, at age 5. Inspired at age c17 seeing magic at high school show. Learned from books. Insurance sales rep in Borger. Since late 1950s a close student of Dai Vernon, Charlie Miller, and Faucett Ross. Semi-pro close-up, platform and stage magician. Wrote In Concert (288pp). 2 videos (1985), video segment (1988). Tricks in Gen, Epilogue, Richard's Almanac, Genii, Magic, Ammar's Encore III, and Magic Menu. See Jay Evans, The Lecture Notes of Roger Klause (1982, 14pp).

• ...The Broken Match Restored
• The Flame In The Bottle
• A Rapid Vanish
• Slow Coin Vanish
• Hot Money
• The Thin Man
• The Aerial Match
• The Crazy Coins
• The Ring And The Coin
• You Can't Be Sober
• Sensitive Touch
• The Strait Jacket
• Hot Heads
• Personal Magnetism
• Transmigration
• The Magnetic Touch
• Glass Of Wine Production
• The Menu Mystery
• The Vanishing Coins
• Where Is It?
• Individualism
• The Absent-Minded Professor
• Mark Of Identification
• Gone With The Wind
• Penetramus
• The Travelling Ring
• The Vanishing Fruit
• Where Is That Coin?

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For many years, Devin Knight's Balloon Detective has been a runaway best seller with magic shops. Due to many requests, Devin is offering his Balloon Detective as a PDF along with the cards you can print out. This way when they wear out, you can print them as you need them without having to buy the trick over again.

This is a great tool for both family entertainers and mentalists. You can use this even if you have never made a balloon animal in your life. One of the effects doesn't even use real balloons!

Until now, there have been few ways to tie in your magic with balloon sculpturing....

Here are 22 funny, irreverent, off-beat magic and mentalism effects that are sure to get you noticed.

There's magic here with cards, dice, dictionaries, a paper giraffe, a restaurant menu ... even an Egyptian Scarab. Rarely does an ebook come around that's as much fun to read as it is to perform. This is just such an ebook. Here's a peek at what's inside:

• The Pasteboard Alibi
• The Card in the Ice Cube
• The Trick Without a Name
• The Nest of Sacks
• A Deck in Bondage
• Magic by the Hour
• With a Bit of Spice
• A Toast to Magic
• With the Sense of Touch
• Metamorphosis
• The Skeleton of Jekyll and...

Stephen Tucker is probably one of the craziest people you will ever meet in magic. He may be crazy but he also happens to be highly talented and a very creative person. He has invented many magic effects and has supported himself over the years by performing magic, inventing magic tricks and editing and producing magic magazines. He was the editor and publisher of the amazing Spell-Binder Magazine.

Chicanery is a worthy successor to Spell-Binder and most of the effects within its pages are by Stephen. He gave himself pen names and a typical Tucker touch is that the names are Pen Tell, Mark Erpen, Nick Fountain,...

As stated on the cover, this is a book of ideas, tricks, routines and gags for the close-up worker. Not only tricks but practical ideas and presentations that can make the difference between "just another trick" and a "great trick".

• Close-Up-Magic: A Few Home Truths
• Advance Publicity
• Comedy In Close-Up
• Second-Strings
• Easier-Still
• Petite-Mannikin: A Close-Up Impromptu-Diversion
• "Cock-Eyed Cruet": A Lovely Table-Gag
• With Miniature-Cards: Sugar-Tong-Card-Location
• Presentation-Angles For "Close-Up Magic": "Magical-Menu"
• New Patter & Presentations For Close-Up-Classics: Chinese-Compass ...

Entertainment should not be a menu of prices set in stone. There are ways you can charge more for your performances. The power rests in the key elements of communication. Bringing the conversation to an ultimate "take it or leave it" conclusion may not be in the magician's best interest.

There are four elements that need to be covered through conversation. Quoting a price without knowing those elements is a problem that chips away at the magician's profits. Magicians who make more money deploy these elements. They are not hard. In fact, they are so simple to work with that no special training...

Cuando escribí mi trilogía sobre La Magia de Ascanio, tras revisar cuidadosamente todo el material disperso que manejé, contrastándolo a menudo, tuve que dejar fuera cosas, no muchas, que aunque estaban en mi plan inicial, o no pude ampliarlas debidamente o ya no teníamos en los libros espacio...

The title of Dale A. Hildebrandt's latest manuscript is Foam Kangaroo Abs. The ebook started out as a very comprehensive, thorough, detailed, and examined-from-all angles treatise on all things related to anagrams within the magic and mentalism world. Not only are progressive anagrams discussed, but there are also details on branching anagrams, non-verbal branching anagrams, the puzzler's anagrams wherein words are re-arranged as games or clues, visual anagrams, and other topics either tangentially or specifically related to anagrams in the mystery arts.

Many others either confuse branching...

The performer shows a menu card from a restaurant listing various foods. Anyone is invited to come forth and secretly write the name of any food from the menu on a blank index card and drop it face down on a plate.

NO FORCES OR RESTRICTIONS. The performer says the special of the day at the restaurant is two for the price of one. To get the special the performer has to order the same item. Performer than secretly writes down his choice from the menu on another index card and drops it on another plate. Once this has been done the performer and participant exchange plates and both show the...

This is a very efficient and deceptive move by Steve Draun. A card that is inserted into the deck automatically ends up in the gambler's cop.

Chris Wasshuber independently developed this move in 1993 during his stay in Japan including an important visual convincer. If you want to learn this improved variation email him. He might be talked into releasing it. If you can't get Chris to talk then check out the Huot/Duperre control from Magic Menu volume 10. It is very similar to what Chris is doing.

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   1. ... L. W. Stop Mystery - T. Page Wright & William W. Larsen
   49. McMillen-Wright Rising Cards - T. Page Wright & William W. Larsen
       • Foreword
       • The J. M. Rising Card
       • The Obedient Rising Cards
   52. The Last Page - Irving Joslyn
   52. The Unexpected Production - Jack Boshard
   53. Halloween Magic - William W. Larsen
   54. Thru The Slanting Eye - Harry Mendoza
   55. Special Announcements
   56. Scatted Shots - L.O. Gunn
   56. Ed. Saint and Company
   57. Stagecraft - Caryl S. Fleming
   58. Paging the Ladies - Geraldine Conrad
   60. Club Reports
   64. A Few Pet Aversions - Caryl S. Fleming
   65. Bagdad
   66. Thru the Monocle -...

July 1988 - June 1989
William Larsen, Jr., Publisher and Editor

843 pages (1 double page)

1. Genii - Volume 52, Number 1 - July 1988 - 60 pages
1. Cover - Dr. Robert Albo
5. In This Issue - contents
16. The Genii Speaks - WWL (Jr)
17. The Vernon Touch - Dai Vernon
18. Custodian of a million legends preserves health of antique magic - re: Dr. Robert Albo - Amy Stevens
    21. The Albo Books: Keeping the history of magic alive
    24. The Albo Collection: Home to magic's history
26. Illusion Plans - Paul Osborne and Associates
    • Santazamm!
28. Cigarette Magic and Manipulation - Geoffrey Buckingham ...

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49. Tarbell Treasures - Dean A. Montalbano
    49. The Pentacle Of Hate! - Dean A. Montalbano
    50. The Gentleman and the Coin - Julie Sobanski
51. Attention Subscribers: Date Change
51. Cartoon - Paul Butler
52. "Brainwave" Effect Using an Ungimmicked Deck - Jesse Schaplow & Terry Schaplow
53. The Magic of David Copperfield in Jakarta - Drs. G. H. Liadi
55. Magic on Tape - Billy McComb
    • Flirting with Magic - Michael Jeffreys
    • The T. A. Waters Video - T. A. Waters
55. The Magic of David Copperfield - Tour Schedule
55. Photo Contest Winners from the April Issue
56. Labor Day Legerdemain - Marcom ...

November 1995 - October 1996
Irene Larsen, Publisher and Erika Larsen, Editor

1028 pages

1. Genii - Volume 59, Number 1 - November 1995 - 80 pages
1. Cover - Bob Markwood's Perfect Birthday Party?
5. Contents
9. The Genii Speaks - Erika Larsen
12. Letters
    • Isn't Life Wonderful? - Roger Thompson
    • Puttin' on the Ritz - Mike Rogers
    • Get Back - Tom Zell
    • Trend of Truth - Bruce Meyers
    • Monumental - Peter D. Blanchard
    • Incidental - Ed Warren
13. Guide to Advertisers
14. A Word From Our Publisher - Irene Larsen
18. Genii News - Magic News - compiled by Erika Larsen
    • "Two" of a Kind ...

January 2001 - December 2001
Richard Kaufman, Editor

1096 pages

1. Genii - Volume 64, Number 1 - January 2001 - 96 pages
1. Cover - Millennium Reflections
5. Contents
8. Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
14. Messages
    • David Regal
    • Rick Green
    • Steve Rogers
    • Dan Waldron
    • George Weiss
    • Gregg Webb
15. Knights at the Magic Castle - Jules Lenier
    • Performing at The Magic Castle Next Month
16. A Warlock Goes to Salem - Elizabeth Warlock
20. Millennium Reflections
    20. Letting Loose the Light - Jon Racherbaumer
        • Prologue
        • One
        • Two
        • Three
        • Four
    21. Millennium...

January 2009 - December 2009
Richard Kaufman, Editor

1224 pages

1. Genii - Volume 72, Number 1 - January 2009 - 112 pages
1. Cover - Wayne Dobson
5. Contents
10. Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
11. Now Performing - Monday Night Magic - New York
12. On the Slant - Jon Racherbaumer
    • Googling, Groking and Searchin'
    • Mind Games for Mystery Schoolers
    • Unimaginable Libraries, Plus Hoax and Awe
13. Now Performing - The Magic Castle - Las Vegas
15. Max Maven's Inquisition
16. Cryptic Crossword - No. 1 - Josh Mandel
    • A Basic Guide to Solving Cryptic Crosswords
18. Magicana - David Acer
    18. Unwedding...

The title might be a bit misleading as most of the advice is applicable to any magician who wants to add comedy to their performance.

If you are serious about mixing magic and comedy you need to read this. It will either make you reconsider your choice or give you a head start and pointers in the right direction.

"If you see one magician this decade, Hobson is it." - Herald Sun Melbourne, Australia

"Hobson closed the show with excellent magic and gales of laughter ... his acting and comedic timing are superb!" - Linking Ring Magazine

"... the audience gave him top applause at finish."...

Unless you have been hiding in the basement for the last decade, you know Jamy Ian Swiss has been writing insightful, well written, educational, funny, and opinionated book reviews for Genii magazine. Swiss, soon to begin his ninth year of book criticism, began reviewing books for Genii in June of 1994.

Now you can own the complete collection of book reviews, from 1994 through 2001, in one convenient ebook. In addition to 217 reviews, you’ll receive "A Millennium of Magic Literature," a special, comprehensive feature Swiss wrote for the January 2001 millennium issue of Genii, as well as an introduction...

1. The Magazine of Magic - Volume 4 - bound volume cover and Index
4. Index

1. The Magazine of Magic - Volume 4, Number 1 - June, 1916 - 16 pages
1. Contents
3. Our Views
4. Interview and Photograph - Theo. Bamberg
5. News Notes and Notices
6. Magicians of the Past
   • No. 6 - Alexander Herrmann
7. Tricks, Tips and Talk - Contributed by Chris Van Bern, Gordon Freeman, Stanley Collins, E. B. Cole, "Alba", Prof. Hoffman, Theo. Bamberg, B. B. Low
   7. The Ever-Full Glass of Wine - Invented by Chris Van Bern
   7. The "Freeman: Smoke Vase
   8. The Famous Vanishing Cage Trick - Patter
   8. Cravat to Sailor's...

Volume 4, Number 5 - Volume 5 Number 4
January 1995 - December 1995
Stan Allen & Associates
Stan Allen, Editor

1114 pages (4 double pages)

1. Magic - Volume 4, Number 5 - January 1995 - 84 pages
1. Cover - One Hundred Million Dollars? - Lance Burton
5. Contents
7. From the Editor - Stan Allen
   • The Reverend Lance Burton
11. Letters
19. Parallax - Max Maven
    • The Morbid The Merrier
      • Meta-Meow
20. Questions - Paul Gertner
    • Why Don't You Have A Real Job?
23. Hmmmmmm - Kees Schoonenberg
    • Beware
24. On The Road
    • Survival On The Road - Mike Rogers ...