Abbott Magic

January 1942 - December 1942
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

413 pages

1. The "Tops" - Volume 7, Number 1 - January 1942 - 36 pages
1. Cover - Sid Lorraine
3. With the Editor
3. Contents
4. The Facts of Life in the case of Sid Lorraine
4. Land and Water Trick
5. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
   • The Figure Fiend - book - R. A. Burley
   • Mother Goose Mystery - trick - Martin Gardner
   • Questions and Answers
7. Color Prediction - Joseph Brandi
8. The Campbell Caravan - Loring and Kathryne Campbell
8. Super-X Scores in Show
9. Magical Crossword...

January 1941 - December 1941
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

638 pages

1. The "Tops" - Volume 6, Number 1 - January 1941 - 52 pages
3. Index - Contents (including advertisers)
4. Editorial - Mel
5. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
   • Questions and Answers
9. Jumbo Discovery - Bryce Chambers
10. Bingo - A New Clever Novelty Trick
10. re: J. C. Bisbee
11. Where Was I? - "Monk" Watson
12. The Card Trick Without a Deck - Allan Lambie
13. Sucker Die Box Gag
14. Chinese Lantern Trick - Otto Waldmann
15. The Stuck Card Trick
15. Bury Peter Rabbit
15. Swann Suggested...

January 1940 - December 1940
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

636 pages

1. The "Tops" - Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1940 - 52 pages
3. Index - Contents (including advertisers)
4. Editorial - Percy Abbott
5. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
   • 1940 Good Wishes to You and Yours
   • A Magici8an in the House - Sid Lorraine - correction
   • Testimonial
7. Magicians Guild of America - Recil Bordner
8. Fitzkee's Story - Dariel Fitzkee
9. The Magicians Guild Convention - Ken MacEachin
10. E. J. Moore Sick Fund
11. Conjuring Potpourri - John Braun

January 1939 - December 1939
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor

621 pages

1. The "Tops" - Volume 4, Number 1 - January 1939 - 60 pages
3. Index - Contents (including advertisers)
4. Editorial - Percy Abbott
   • WE Give Thanks
5. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
   • A Few Questions and Answers
7. "Majah", Indian Mystic
7. re: Will Rock
7. "Greater Magic"
7. New York State Conclave
8. Dusting Off Some Old Ones - Eddie Joseph
   • The Travelling Coins - Joseph's Routine
10. Conjuring Potpourri - John Braun
12. Corrections - for December Issue of "Potpourri"
12. Fleming Trophy...

January 1938 - December 1938
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor

659 pages

1. The "Tops" - Volume 3, Number 1 - January 1938 - 52 pages
3. Index - Contents (including advertisers)
4. Editorial - Percy Abbott
   • Happy Birthday To You
6. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
   • Pig On the Slate by U. F. Grant not Oswald Williams
   • Loyd's Mystery Wand - trick
   • Questions and Answers
9. The Permeating Pasteboard - Arthur H. Roberts
10. Accumulated Magic - Ed Burchell
    • Cigarette Vanish
    • Another Cigarette Vanish
    • Eating A Lighted Cigarette
    • Silk Production ...

January 1937 - December 1937
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor

649 pages

1. The "Tops" - Volume 2, Number 1 - January 1937 - 52 pages
3. Index - Contents (including advertisers)
4. Editorial - Percy Abbott
5. New Magic Club - The Keystone Ring of Harrisburg
5. Harlan Tarbell's Health
6. The "Tops" Policy
6. Is This A Pipe Dream? - letter from Julius Hopkins
7. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
   • Thoughts About a Year of Tops
   • Questions and Answers
9. Variation of Rope Trick - Erwin Forsythe
10. The Drop Cigarette Move - Percy Abbott
10. Continuous Front and Back Palm With Lighted...

January 1936 - December 1936
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor

585 pages

1. The "Tops" - Volume 1, Number 1 - January 1936 - 36 pages
3. The Policy of this Magazine
4. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
5. Trading Center - announcement
8. Magicians Are The "Tops" - Alvin Richard Plough
10. We Remember - Lester Lake (Marvelo)
11. Our Nobel Prize For Today
    • Percy Abbott
12. Continual Production of Lighted Pipes - Lu-Brent
13. Why Not A Contest?
14. I'm Telling You - H. Adrian Smith
    • Snooping Around In Magic
15. Editorial - Percy Abbott
16. The Coin Cards - W. C. Oates
18. Tops and...

From the introduction my Ormond McGill:

The amusement park and theme park business is an interesting opportunity for magicians. If you have ever wanted to experience this performing venue ... now is the time ... and this is the ebook. The Handbook For The Theme Park Magician will tell you all you need to know: how the parks operate, how they book their attractions, what to expect (both personally and professionally) and more.

You will be given sound and practical advice from a man (Wayne Wissner) who has made his living for many years in this lucrative field. Advice on your act, your assistants, your daily life (both on and off...

The original book Tips on Zombie was published in 1946 and has long been out of print. The Abbott Magic Company acquired the rights to this book. Neil Foster compiled the additional material and the book has been revised and greatly enlarged. Magic's Number One illustrator, Sid Lorraine, contributed the more than sixty detailed illustrations. If you are interested in performing the famous "Zombie" effect, you must have this ebook. The contents include:

• Zombie
• Zombie Gimmicks (6 different types)
• The Start on the Arm
• Zombie Vanish (4 methods)
• The John Calvert Story
• The No-Gimmick Zombie
• Will Desmond's...

This ebook is a compilation of the following titles:

• A Practical Lesson in Cups and Balls
• Advanced Lessons in Cups and Balls
• Last Word on Cups and Balls
• My Favorite Routine with Cups and Balls

Over sixty...

From the introduction:

This completes the series with

• Character Reading by R.S. Glover
• Astrologia by Howard P. Albright. A "sealed message" psychic routine completely detailed and incorporating the Automatic Prompter--an invaluable aid in delivering a convincing and unusual psychic reading. Techniques and presentations that appear nowhere else.

1st edition 1984; PDF 72 pages

This is a collection of the following titles:

• Needle Routine by M.S. "Doc" Mahdendra
• Super Psychic Mental Effects by Howard Albright
• Sand Painting by Howard Mel Melson
• Simplified Memory Act by Samuel Shapiro
• Dwarf Act by Richard Merry
• X-Jargon by Wallace Lee
• Thought Wings Onward--Part Two by Eddie Clever

PDF 123 pages

This is a collection of the following titles:

• Thrilling Magic by Leonard H. Miller
• Super Sensitive Fingertips by Howard P. Albright
• Map Mirako Act by Vin Carey
• Mindreading for Two People by Sydney de Hempsey
• Super Memory Plus by Gerald Kosky
• Forbidden Wisdom by Howard P. Albright
• Thought Wings Onward--Part One by Eddie Clever

PDF 122 pages

Shows you how to do a fortune telling act incorporating magic tricks.

• Fortune Telling By Cards (Three Methods)
• The Triple Turnover
• Out Of The Hat
• The Mental Wonder
• Simplified Interpretation Of The Cards
• The Suits (Indicate The Spheres Of Action)
• The Values (Indicate Events Of Importance)
• How To Memorize
• The Mystic Circle
• How To Give An Interesting Reading
• Pseudo-Palmistry
• A Sample Reading (From Observation And Information)
• Pseudo-Graphology
• Pseudo-Astrology
• The World Of Dreams
• Fortune Telling With Coins
• Fortune Telling With Dice
• Pseudo-Numerology
• Scribble-Ology (An Original...

From the introduction:

From the introduction:

This #5 catalog was a supplementary catalog to #4. It only listed the new effects Abbott could supply.

1st edition ?, 94 pages.

In this catalog Eddie Joseph and all his publications and separately sold tricks received a separate section. Abbott is also operating their own printing presses and advertises to print business cards, letterheads, handbills and show cards for magicians. A price list is included at the very end.

• Accessories
• Balls
• Bottles
• Cages
• Canes
• Cards
• Change Bags
• Cigarettes
• Club
• Comedy
• Dice
• Eggs
• Escapes
• Fish
• Flowers
• Glasses
• Illusions
• Joseph
• Light Bulbs
• Linking Rings
• Liquid
• Livestock
• Lotas
• Mental
• Milk
• Money
• Novelties
• Paper
• Parasols
• Pocket
• Printing
• Reels
• Rice Bowls
• Rising...

Magic products are being offered in the following categories:

• Accessories
• Advertising Section
• Ball Magic
• Bird Cages
• Block Tricks
• Bottle Tricks
• Candle Tricks
• Canes
• Card Magic
• Change Bags
• Cigarette Tricks
• Close-Up and Pocket Tricks
• Coin and Money Magic
• Comedy Effects
• Cups and Balls
• Dice
• Egg
• Escapes
• Flower Magic
• Trick Glasses
• Illusions
• Kid-Show Magic
• Light Bulbs
• Linking Rings
• Liquid Magic
• Water Lotas
• Milk Tricks
• Tricks with Livestock
• Mental magic
• Paper Magic
• Production Magic
• Rice Bowls
• Rope Tricks
• Silk Magic
• Spook and Spirit Material
• Modern Tables
• Thimbles ...

This is the complete dialog for the presentation of PUNCH and JUDY.

The figures used in this dialog and in order of their appearance are as follows: Punch — Dog Toby — Judy — Baby — Beadle or Policeman — Joey the Clown — Crocodile — Ghost — Doctor.

In addition to the above, the following properties are used: Punch's stick — Sausages — Frying Pan — Gallows — Coffin — The Pall.

1st digital edition 2016, 10 pages.

The catalog gives a date of 1976, but that is the same date as #21, which means they probably forgot to change it. Most likely this catalog was published in the early 1980s. The latest date mentioned anywhere in the catalog is 1981. My best guess therefore is that this catalog was released in 1981 or 1982.

1st edition 198?, 448 pages.

Includes a historical sketch about Abbott Magic, how it came to be, and why it was started in Colon, MI.

1st edition 1972, 464 pages.