Stephen Tucker products: page 2

This special little periodical, which only saw six issues, was sent to subscribers of Spell-Binder magazine, but could also be purchased on its own. It only saw a very limited distribution. As is common with Stephen Tucker publications, it features unusual items. Tucker included with most issues some gimmick (special cards, etc.). These gimmicks are not included in this digital reproduction, however you will see photos of the gimmicks, which will allow you to find or make your own.

Issue 1: May/June 1982

• Multum in Parvo
• Alchemy
• Odd Job

Issue 2: July/August 1982

• Multum in Parvo
• Before Assembly ...

On top of the regular Spell-Binder issues, Stephen Tucker published three special issues. This is the third one.

• Jargon
• Playing With Time By Martin Breese
• Mizzing Link By Stephen Tucker
• The Pascal System By Monmoine Pascal
• Kaned By Stephen Tucker
• Or By Justin Higham
• Jackrobats By David Britland
• The Flight Of The Bumble By Stephen Tucker
• X-Ray By Daniel Kalinowski
• Hof-Aced By Phil Goldstein
• Coineto By Stephen Tucker
• The Inner Limits By Stephen Tucker
• Pop Up Again By Reinhard Müller
• Snip By Stephen Tucker
• Out Of Our Mind's By Stephen Tucker And David Britland
• The Hole Idea By Stephen Tucker
• A Load Of ... By Paul Brignall
• Zennerism By...

On top of the regular Spell-Binder issues, Stephen Tucker published three special issues. This is the second one.

• Jargon
• Truthfull (I.E ... Not Often Seen.) Reviews Of The Competition Prizes
• We '3' Rings By Stephen Tucker
• Deck The Halls By Basil Horwitz
• Live And Let Dye By David Britland
• Nöel By Noel Blaize
• Rowman's Double By Jerry Sadowitz
• Marvellous By Terri Rogers
• Jigsaw
• Zig Zag Coin By Stephen Tucker
• Exhibit 'A' By Stephen Tucker
• Birth-Control By Stephen Tucker
• Appelation By Stephen Tucker
• Appellation By Stephen Tucker
• Ringo-Bingo By Stephen Tucker
• Wanderfull By Stephen Tucker
• Special Competition
• Roger Crosthwaite ... For Publication
• P.Y.V.C....

On top of the regular Spell-Binder issues, Stephen Tucker published three special issues. This is the first one.

• Jargon Special Issue!!
• Too Filling By Stephen Tucker
• Beetroot Sandwich
• Eye-Tray By Wayne Dobson
• Tuckups By Stephen Tucker
• Cup Through Cup Move
• Penetrating Pips By Roger Curzon
• The Secret Of Pyramid Power By Abdula
• The Knack By Jerry Sadowitz
• Eject!! By John Brown
• Solidarity By John Brown (Another One!!)
• Small Prophet By David Britland
• Haden – Matrix By Reinhard Müller
• Open All Hours By David Britland
• The Midas Purse
• Stephen Tuckers' Improved Pen-Ultimate +1
• Stephen Tucker Presents His Enveloped
• Stephen Tuckers' Eraser Blazer
• Influence...

A fabulous DVD featuring four of the best tricks from Spell-Binder magazine. Martin Breese asked Stephen Tucker the creator of the magazine to choose four of the best tricks that he created for the magazine and he has selected four wonderful effects. Each is performed and then clearly explained move by move.

Watch the performances of all four routines below.

This is a miracle trick from the fertile, inventive and, dare we say, dangerous mind of Stephen Tucker.

You have three red-backed cards: two cards marked THIS one card with the word THAT. All you have to do is keep your eye on THAT but most of the time you get THAT wrong and it is THIS and when you get THIS and THAT wrong suddenly the back of THIS turns blue!

At the end of the routine you deal the three cards down on to the table and a new card appears bearing the word OTHER. So you have to explain as you deal the cards that to do this trick properly you will need THIS, THAT and a bit...

This is volume 3 of the reprint of Spell-Binder Magazine. It is a half-letter size softcover with a color cover and black and white print throughout. Volume three includes issues 25-36.

Spell-Binder Magazine was a fascinating publication edited by Stephen Tucker which focused on close-up magic featuring an eclectic list of contributors.

Spell-Binder started in 1981. Reprint in 2004 by Martin Breese.

This is volume 1 of the reprint of Spell-Binder Magazine. Each volume is a half-letter size softcover with a color cover and black and white print throughout. Volume one includes issues 1-12. Spell-Binder Magazine was a fascinating publication edited by Stephen Tucker which focused on close-up magic featuring an eclectic list of contributors.

Spell-Binder started in 1981. Reprint in 2004 by Martin Breese.

This is volume 3 of the reprint of Spell-Binder Magazine. It is a half-letter size softcover with a color cover and black and white print throughout. Volume three includes issues 25-36.

Spell-Binder Magazine was a fascinating publication edited by Stephen Tucker which focused on close-up magic featuring an eclectic list of contributors.

Spell-Binder started in 1981. Reprint in 2004 by Martin Breese.

This is volume 1 of the reprint of Spell-Binder Magazine. Each volume is a half-letter size softcover with a color cover and black and white print throughout. Volume one includes issues 1-12. Spell-Binder Magazine was a fascinating publication edited by Stephen Tucker which focused on close-up magic featuring an eclectic list of contributors.

Spell-Binder started in 1981. Reprint in 2004 by Martin Breese.

Eighty-five tricks and routines from the pages of Spell-Binder Magazine. Everything from card and coin magic to the bizarre and the weird.

Effects explained are:

• Sandwich Box by Stephen Tucker -- Signed selected card appears between 2 previously selected cards within closed card case.
• Mark by Stephen Tucker -- Alternate version of previous effect.
• Demonology by Bob Ostin -- Spectator signs card. Flames cause occult symbol to change to slip of paper with name of signed card. Signed card then revealed to have singed corner & occult symbol on back.
• Esti-Mate-Ion by Joe Dignam -- Spectator looks through deck...

Eighty-five tricks and routines from the pages of Spell-Binder Magazine. Everything from card and coin magic to the bizarre and the weird.

Effects explained are:

• Sandwich Box by Stephen Tucker -- Signed selected card appears between 2 previously selected cards within closed card case.
• Mark by Stephen Tucker -- Alternate version of previous effect.
• Demonology by Bob Ostin -- Spectator signs card. Flames cause occult symbol to change to slip of paper with name of signed card. Signed card then revealed to have singed corner & occult symbol on back.
• Esti-Mate-Ion by Joe Dignam -- Spectator looks through deck...

A fabulous download DVD featuring four of the best tricks from Spell-Binder magazine. Martin Breese asked Stephen Tucker the creator of the magazine to choose four of the best tricks that he created for the magazine and he has selected four wonderful effects. Each is performed and then clearly explained move by move.

Watch the performances of all four routines below.

[Note: If you prefer a physical DVD disc please go to Martin Breese International.]

Stephen Tucker's classic Cardiac series revived as an ebook. This is the third part of the trilogy. 20 stunning effects.

1st edition 1984, 40 pages; PDF 49 pages.

Table of Contents

4. Intro...
5. Making Light
6. Cocktail
8. Busy Doing Nothing
9. Conversaceon
11. So Be It!
13. Royal Passage
15. Oil Well That Ends Well
17. The Tuckount
20. Face Value
22. Spot The Difference!
25. Case In Question
27. Back From The Front
29. A Passing Interest
32. There Must Be A Catch
34. So What Else Is New?
37. You Must be Psychic
38. Electron
40. Mohammed
43. Disgracefull
47. Over And.......
49. Bye.....

Stephen Tucker's classic Cardiac series revived as an ebook. This is the second part of the trilogy.

1st edition 1984, 36 pages; PDF 40 pages.

Table of Contents

4. Total Control
6. Henchmen
10. Going Nowhere
14. Cutting Remarks
17. The Alternative
18. Edge Hog II
20. III
21. Chinese Tuckaway
24. To Have And To Hold
26. A Sticky System
28. In The Best Of Taste
30. The Other Side
32. You Only Get Out What You Put In. Or Do You?
34. Pneumatic
35. For Whom The Belle Told
38. Snap And Tickle
40. Bye!

Stephen Tucker's classic Cardiac series revived as an ebook. This is the first part of the trilogy.

1st edition 1983, 36 pages; PDF 44 pages.

Table of Contents

4. Mexican Revelation
9. The Nervous Card
13. Upstaged
16. Encounters Of The Fourth Kind
19. May The Force Be With You
24. Fast Moves
27. The Centre Of Attention...
31. Only Jo
33. Diversity
35. Cops And Robbers
38. Down Under
41. Under Observation
42. The Time Warp

23 fantastic card routines.

1st edition 1984, 52 pages; PDF 61 pages.

Table of Contents

5. Who's The Dirty Rascal?
6. Stitches In Time
8. Footsteps
11. Just A Few Wrinkles…
14. Breaking The Silence
16. Doppelgaenger
19. Tried And Twisted
22. Rock Around
25. The Inner Limits
28. Scanner
31. Withdrawal
33. All Heart
36. The Dance Master
39. Raiders Of The Last Ace
41. Indexlink
44. Revealed
47. Face
49. Finding New Strength
51. Thoughts!
51. Weekend
53. Ambassador
55. Empress
57. Mirage
60. The Brail Deck

More than 30 card effects and 7 bonus coin routines.

1st edition 1984, 70 pages; PDF 87 pages.

Table of Contents

4. Dunbury Well
6. Judy
8. Distraction
11. Back From The Brink
13. All Change!
16. Creating A False Impression
19. Olympia
21. Variations
23. Those That Do And Those That Don't
25. Open Till Late
27. Short Break
29. Con Tents
31. Compute
33. Chicken Curry
35. Fake!
38. Back For Seconds
40. Sufferer
43. Superking
45. Enigma
47. Day Of Reckoning
50. Incentive
52. Three's Company
54. Mimik
56. Zig Zag Zone
59. Revisit
61. Twist And Twist Again
64. Better By Half
66. Xtro
67. Less Choice
68. Sell Out!
69. Trouble Spots
71. Paradise Twins

    Bonus Section

73. Glassgo
75. The...

13 close-up effects from the twisted mind of Stephen Tucker.

35 pages.

Table of Contents

5. Tucker Trip
8. Cluster
12. Foiled
14. Small Change
17. Half & Half
20. Abort
23. Xact
24. Hypno
26. Omni
28. Satan’s Card
30. Domino Match
32. Whoops
33. Malfunction

A mind-shattering collection of close-up magic. You will encounter 50 fantastic effects. 27 are novel and original card miracles. 8 are with coins and the other 15 utilize such objects as sponge balls, keys, pens, ESP cards, bottles, matches, and more.

Many illustrations accompany the text and all effects detailed are within the reach of the average performer.

1st edition 1984, 101 pages; 1st digital edition 2011, PDF 119 pages.

Table of Contents

• Cards
  6. Intro
  7. Kidnapped
  8. Plotting His Course
  9. Profile
  11. Two Faced
  13. Beauty As Well As Brains
  17. And The Winner Is...
  19. Viewpoints
  20. A Vision...

An early publication filled with routines from the creative mind of Stephen Tucker.

1st edition 1984; 56 pages

Table of Contents

4. Intro
5. Shaken And Stirred
8. Double Vision
12. Sounds Too Good To Be True
15. Space Oddities
18. Halve Your Oil Bill
19. Generation Gaps
22. They're Back
23. Unburied Treasure
25. Laundering
27. Black Power
30. Throwaway
31. Silent Running
33. Within Your Reach!
35. Poles Apart
38. The Born Leader
40. Overnight
42. Between The Lines
44. Splash!
46. On And On And On And On And On...
48. Sledgehammer
51. Top Secret
53. Queen Of Controversy
55. Girl Talk

• Two Outa Three Ain't Bad
• As Ye Sew
• Thought Provoking
• Here's Looking At Ya Kid
• We All Have Our Cross To Bear
• Royal DisgrACES
• Holes Apart

PDF 11 pages

This is the very first publication Stephen Tucker ever released. For some this will be a good thing for others not. I personally always enjoy to see the early creations of a now famous magician.

Routines:

• Pegasus
• Small Change
• Music To My Ears'
• The Polaroid Wallet
• The Sound Barrier
• The Thimble Thumble Vanish
• Sealed Future
• S.H.C.
• Faster Than The Eye Can See

1st edition 1978; original 18 pages; PDF 26 pages.

"I really enjoyed all of these routines! Very nice. The White House is especially cool!" - Cameron Francis.

"You have some very nice thinking in these variations." - Peter Duffie.

A regular deck of cards is shuffled and then cut by someone a couple of times. You take back the cards and spread them between your hands and have one FREELY selected by someone. He places the card directly into...

Stephen Tucker is the magician who prefers a clever gimmick over a difficult sleight. That is not to say that he isn't capable to execute some of the most difficult sleights - and you will get a taste of those in this ebook, too. But the real strength here are Stephen's clever gimmicks and uses for common items and the fun and amazing routines he constructs with them.

• 13 card miracles
• 9 bonus effects (originally published in the Talon)
• 27 futuristic coin routines

1st edition 1983, original 73 pages, PDF 109 pages.

Table of Contents

3. Contents
5. Introduction

   PARAGON - card effects...

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,...

20 mentalism effects with a foreword by Max Maven. Out of print since 1985. Now again available as ebook.

From the foreword by Max Maven:

Stephen Tucker was the publisher, editor, illustrator and creative genius behind Spell-Binder Magazine. It ran for three years and had 36 issues and 710 pages. (This does not include the three Special Issues.)

You will find some of the finest close-up magic effects: David Britland alone contributed 40 items, there were 6 new effects from Basil Horwitz, 4 from Jerry Sadowitz, 2 from Gazzo, 5 from Gordon Bruce, 3 from Roy Walton, 9 from Phil Goldstein, 12 from Reinhard Müller, 5 from Al Smith 2 from Bobby Bernard, 4 from Harvey Rosenthal, 7 from Ian Land, 12 from Paul Brignall, 7 from Peter Duffie, 6 from Roger Curzon, 6 from Shiv Duggal, 7 from Wayne Dobson and 109 from Stephen Tucker. Stephen has captured...

You show four face up cards, explaining that two are identical, and ask someone to call out the name of the card they see twice. They do this three times, but are only correct on their third attempt! You repeat the entire procedure with the backs of the cards (only two are the same colour) ... with the same result!

• cards can be examined at the end
• instant reset

Bonus: Chamile
With patter revolving about a strange dream, in which you were playing a game of Poker...your cards change faces and backs in a most...

An unbelievable version of the legendary rising cards effect.

• no weights
• no threads
• no elastics
• no springs
• no magnets
• no wires

You can have one, two or even three cards selected then... have them rise out from different parts of the deck. Actually, you can rise more than three cards, but no more than fifty-two....