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Spell-Binder Volume 1 (for resale)Stephen Tucker 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. | softcover |
Spell-Binder Volume 3 (for resale)Stephen Tucker 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. | softcover |
Spell-Binder Special Issue 1 (1982 Summer)Stephen Tucker 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...
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Spell-Binder Special Issue 2 (1982 Christmas)Stephen Tucker 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....
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Spell-Binder Special Issue 3 (1983)Stephen Tucker 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...
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Mind PowerStephen Tucker A fork and a spoon are shown. Someone chooses one leaving you with the spoon (ho, ho!), which you now bend using 'the power of your mind' alone. Actually you do bend it, but by pressing it against your forehead! However, it now visibly straightens (all by itself!) then slowly bends again, whilst held in one hand only, snaps in two and is handed out for immediate examination!
Self-working...nobody does it for you! It is all in the most simple and ingenious gimmick that costs you a penny if you don't already have the right thing somewhere at home.
1st edition 2005; 3 pages.
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The Vortex CardsStephen Tucker Two full-color laminated Visa-type credit cards are shown. As you hold one, and move it in a circle, the image of a silver coin appears at its center, which (incredible as it sounds) you then shake off into reality!
You then explain that it can just as easily be deposited back into your bank-account and removed whenever you want it.
Once you've produced several coins, you can use the two Vortex Cards as covers for your favorite matrix routine. Stephen includes his Vortex-Matrix routine.
This is an optical oddity that you will love and use!
Pop the two Vortex Cards in your wallet and... | $12 to wish listPDF |
Fade AwayStephen Tucker Three face down cards are show and tabled to one side for the moment. Introducing a regular deck of cards, you have one selected, signed across its face, returned and then lost.
The deck is now set aside, as you show the three cards tabled earlier. Incredibly, all three appear to be the signed selection! Then the cards become shy and refuse to show their faces in public, backing away from everyone (all three cards now have backs on both sides!) Finally, they all return to normal!
This is a brilliant routine and easy to perform. Only three cards are used - apart from those in your deck... | ★★★★★ $12 to wish listPDF |
QuartetStephen Tucker Four cards (you could use jumbos) are shown. They are all the same on the face, but one has flipped face down. They are shown again and a second has flipped face down.
This is repeated until only one remains face up. You now ask if they'd like to 'see' the final card visibly flip face down? They would, but aren't too impressed when you simply remove it, and openly turn it over!
However, when the four cards are dealt face up to the table... they are now all completely different, and match the four freely 'forced' cards that they chose earlier!
This routine is great for mastering the... | $12 to wish listPDF |
ParadoxStephen Tucker This is an incredible topological curiosity with a playing card and a third!
Four odd shaped pieces, cut from Bicycle playing cards, are tabled. You explain that three of the pieces marry together to form the shape of a complete playing card. The extra piece is only supplied in case of emergencies (i.e. if you lose a piece!) The extra 'emergency' piece is shown to be the same shape as one of the other pieces and is then set aside.
Strangely, although you easily solved the 'apparently' simple jig-saw puzzle, no one else can!
Comes with a bonus routine: Bomb$hell Deluxe.
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The Missing LinkStephen Tucker Three playing cards (or business cards) are shown and then, with herculean strength, you tear out their centers - in order, you explain, to magically link them together.
Once they have been linked, they are then torn apart (to break the chain), then the "hoops" are restored and handed out for immediate examination.
You can make gimmicks in less than five seconds! Now also supplied with a 100% impromptu handling.
1st edition 2005; 4 pages. | $12 to wish listPDF |
Matrix ReloadedStephen Tucker Four laminated cards are shown to each bear the image of a coin. (Included are images of cards bearing either 50p coins or Kennedy half-dollars).
They are tabled, one at each corner of your mat or, if strolling, one on each of four up-turned palms. The coins on three of the cards vanish and appear on the fourth card - in true matrix fashion. Then the four images are shaken off the card into reality. This leaves you with four double blanks and four real coins!
If you like, you can now perform your favorite coin-matrix with the 'real' coins using the blank cards as covers.
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Lotto Flash WalletStephen Tucker This is an absolutely incredible transposition of a 'winning' lottery ticket (you say that you had three of the numbers drawn), which is isolated in a wallet and a £10.00 note held in your hands!
Believe it or not it's an even faster transposition than the one you saw the Pendragons do on TV with their 'Metamorphosis' sub-trunk illusion. Best of all it's 100% self-working, but looks like incredible sleight-of-hand or real magic.
- automatically resets
- very topical as virtually everyone does the lotto (lottery)
- you can use any country's lotto ticket and currency
- comes with Flash Cash...
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Hash-Town-DingStephen Tucker Someone shuffles an examined blue backed deck (which also contains four red backers). You take it back and, in seconds, produce the four aces. However, this production results in laughter from your audience, not stunned amazement.
You next explain that you are thinking of a word, and ask them to try and read your mind. They say that they think your word is SOAP. You act astonished and say that it was. You then remove the four red backed cards, seen earlier, and a letter has appeared on the back of each of them. The four letters are S, O, A and P!
The deck can now be examined. Hash-Town-Ding... | ★★★★★ $12 to wish listPDF |
LeketenemStephen Tucker With a regular deck, in their own hands, two people each look at a card. They have a 100% free choice of any card. Their cards are lost - you genuinely don't know where they are in the deck!
You now put the cards into your empty pocket then, seconds later produce both selections. The rest of the deck is now removed and you are able to continue with any other card routines that you have mastered.
The instructions detail four presentations - the one above, one performed with a face up deck, one involving four people (ideal for two married couples - to see if they are compatible) and a 100%... | $12 to wish listPDF |
The Lazarus CardStephen Tucker This is the strangest rising card method ever. Why? Because the card that rises is the actual gimmick. Also, the selected card rises and (to amusing patter) its back changes from red to blue. This means that you only have to pocket it, which is logical as its back no longer matches the rest of the cards, and the deck is clean.
- No weights, threads, elastics, springs, electronics, cut-out cards or anything like you've ever seen before!
- Add the gimmicked card to any red backed Bicycle deck!
- Bonus routine: Hallucination Plus
- Bonus routine: Impromptu, Borrowed Rising Cards
1st edition 2005;... | ★★★★★ $12 to wish listPDF |
ImpossibleStephen Tucker
- 100% self-working
- instant reset
- everything can be examined at the end
Effect: You table a coin, a folded up Lotto ticket and a key-ring, then turn your back on proceedings. Someone mixes the three objects around in the row. You now ask that they 'switch' the three objects around even more, as you direct them (sight unseen). They are then asked to pocket two of the objects, in different pockets, and hold the remaining object in their hand.
You now turn to face them again and, after suitable concentration, reveal that they are holding the coin in their hand - they are! You then continue... | ★★★★★ $12 to wish listPDF |
Exhibit A & BStephen Tucker This is a really funny murder mystery routine. The zippered "case" (used to house everything) is "re-opened" and the possible weapons and five laminated clue-cards are removed. With your help, the spectator now deduces which of the weapons was used. Once he's done so, you explain, humorously, why the other weapons couldn't possibly have been used, so he's effectively solved the murder! This means that everything can be returned to the case, which can then be officially closed.
- No re-set is needed.
- Ideal for close-up or "murder weekend" shows.
- Not suitable for non-english speaking countries.
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Magic PurseStephen Tucker Three coins, one at a time, penetrate a purse and land in a glass tumbler. You will need a zippered cloth or leather coin purse and a magnet of the right strength.
- magnet reduces sleight of hand to a minimum
- resets automatically
- ideal for table hopping
1st edition 2008; 2 pages. | ★★★★★ $12 to wish listPDF |
Jumping Jack FlashStephen Tucker Effect: Having just had a card freely forced, you table the deck. Your right hand hovers over it, then descends onto it. Suddenly... a card spins out of the deck and into your waiting left hand. On flipping it face up...it proves to be the very one selected! You are then carried through the streets on the shoulders of your enthusiastic audience.
Bonus: Cross: An ESP routine.
1st edition 2008; 4 pages. | ★★★★★ $12 to wish listPDF |
The Lazarus DeckStephen Tucker An unbelievable version of the legendary rising cards effect.
- no weights
- no threads
- no elastics
- no springs
- no magnets
- no wires
Effect: Three cards are freely selected, then returned to deck. You now hold the cards in the time-honoured rising cards grip and, one-by-one, three cards rise out from different parts of the deck. You turn their faces towards the audience and... they are the three selections!
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.... | $12 to wish listPDF |
KaleidoscopicStephen Tucker 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
This routine is based on one of Roy Walton's, which was called "Kaleidoscope".
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... | ★★★★★ $12 to wish listPDF |
The Gemini BookStephen Tucker 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
- Contents
- Introduction
PARAGON - card effects... | ★★★★★ $12 to wish listPDF |
The Mind MapStephen Tucker You remove from your pocket four sections of a large, full-color, treasure map and jig-saw them together. There are 58 possible locations, and someone is asked to imagine that they have buried all their worldly goods at one of these locations.
You now start to deduce, letter-by-letter, the name of their thought of location. However, way before you have called out all the letters, you stop, pick up the four pieces, stick a label onto one of them and hand it to the spectator face down. He reveals where he mentally buried his things, and discovers that you stuck the label, with an X drawn on... | $12.50 to wish listPDF |
Close Up SorceryStephen Tucker 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. | ★★★★★ $12.50 to wish listPDF |
Lecture MarathonStephen Tucker
- 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 | ★★★★★ $12.50 to wish listPDF |
Red Hot PokerStephen Tucker The core effect is that you play a game of Poker, using just ten cards, with one other player. They choose which five cards they would like, and you take the rest. Incredible as it sounds... they receive a Full House, whilst you always win with a Royal Flush!
NOTE: please don't confuse Red Hot Poker with the old "ten card poker" routine played with three sets of 'three of a kind' and a single 'odd' card. There you had to make them choose the 'odd' card in order for you to win. The routines here are nothing like that!
As a special related bonus item, Peter Duffie has very kindly allowed me to include... | ★★★★★ $14 to wish listPDF |
OmegaStephen Tucker The world's only examinable B'Wave - Two sets of blue Bicycle backed aces are shown. You table one set face down and have someone name any ace. With the other set behind your back, you manage to reverse their named ace (big deal!) However, you now spread the tabled set and their ace has magically reversed there too!
Next, you hand someone your set of aces and, whilst in their hands, the face of their ace vanishes and the backs of the other three change from blue to red! (They are now examinable!)
Finally, someone picks up the tabled set and, with the cards in their hands, their ace becomes... | ★★★★★ $14 to wish listPDF |
The Immaculate ConceptionsStephen Tucker 13 close-up effects from the twisted mind of Stephen Tucker.
35 pages.
Table of Contents
- Tucker Trip
- Cluster
- Foiled
- Small Change
- Half & Half
- Abort
- Xact
- Hypno
- Omni
- Satan’s Card
- Domino Match
- Whoops
- Malfunction
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