Issues run from March 1948 thru February 1951 and include an index. Numbers 51 to 86.
- The Bat - Numbers 51 to 86
- Index - Numbers 51 to 86
- The Bat - Number Fifty-One - March 1948 - 8 pages
- Darn Clever These Chinese! - Frank M. Chapman
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- Gag Bag
- Reverse Magic - Johnnie Murray
- Psychic Slate Mystery - Frank M. Chapman
- Puzzle Corner
- What This Country Needs - James Kolocotronis
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- The "Nine" Coincidence
- The Prophetic Pair
- The Key Mysterious
- Keeping TAB
- Maurice F. Raymond obituary
- Open Sesame - reviews in Genii
- The Card Expert Entertains - Dariel Fitzkee
- Trickster Monthly (report from B.A.T.)
- May selection - Joe Karson's World's Fastest Card Trick
- March selection - Strongest Thought
- April selection - Gravatt's Gimmick
- push for subscriptions
- catalog
- Recent Library Acquisitions
- advertisements
- The Bat - Number Fifty-Two - April 1948 - 8 pages
- Optogramma - Val Evans
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- Gag Bag
- let's Go To Bat - Joe Karson
- News Flashes
- Penny Routine - James Kolocotronis
- photo of Norma Banderbob
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Puzzle Corner
- Trickster Monthly (report from B.A.T.)
- April selection - Optogramma - Val Evans
- May selection - Karson's World's Fastest Card Trick
- push for subscriptions
- Hit The Jackpot 25
- Recent Library Acquisitions
- advertisements
- The Bat - Number Fifty-Three - May 1948 - 8 pages
- The Peregrinating Halves - J. B. Bobo
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- The Gag Bag
- Puzzle Corner
- My Favorite Trick - Thurston, Houdini, Dante & Nicola
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Certain
- Inevitable Discovery
- 22 Discovery
- Shuffled Discovery
- A Lesson in Psychology - Sid Fleischman
- Trickster Monthly (report from B.A.T.)
- B.A.T. (not Bat, which is this magazine) will continue
- May selection - Karson's World's Fastest Card Trick
- June selection - Gravatt's Gimmick
- Hit The Jackpot 26
- Recent Library Acquisitions
- advertisements
- The Bat - Number Fifty-Four - June 1948 - 8 pages
- Francisco's Midnight Spook Show
- Steve Juhasz Shepard show
- The Gag Bag
- Corn from the Francisco Show
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Miller's Discovery
- Test Discovery
- Big Casino Count Down
- Before Your Eyes
- Did You Know - re: celluloid
- Cigarette - Frank M. Chapman
- Trickster Monthly (report from B.A.T.)
- Gravatt's Gimmick - delayed again
- June selection - Single Rope Penetration - Tommy Jones
- July selection - Thought Transcribed - Eddie Clever
- Melt-Away Card Vanish - Allan Lambie
- Hit The Jackpot 28
- Puzzle Corner
- advertisements
- The Bat - Number Fifty-Five - July 1948 - 8 pages
- C. A. - Calling Annemann? - Capillary Action
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- Four Card Stock - Alan Deerfield
- Keeping TAB
- Chester Morris
- Denis Draginis
- addition to Out To Lunch
- Henry Banderbob
- Wilfred Johnson [Jonson?]
- A. G. Hylent's daughter dies
- Walter Adrian
- The Counts of Conjuring
- Magicdotes - Robert Orben
- Comedy Caravan - Robert Orben
- I.B.M. Convention - New Orleans
- Hit The Jackpot 29
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Card in Pocket Discovery
- Novelty Card Trick
- Mysterious Mental Selection
- The Magic Thrust
- The Gag Bag
- Puzzle Corner
- Trickster Monthly (report from B.A.T.)
- another presentation for Melt-Away Card Vanish
- August selection - Muir's Laugh Lines
- Jackpot moved to Keeping TAB
- to balance a newspaper on one finger
- S.A.M. Convention coverage next month
- Single Rope Penetration
- Recent Library Acquisitions
- Department of Unexpected Information - re: first thimble
- advertisements
- The Bat - Number Fifty-Six - August 1948 - 8 pages
- Who Wrote the Tricks of Charles T. Jordan?
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- Gag Bag
- advertisement
- A Mathematical diversion - Charles T. Jordan
- cartoon - Tim
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Puzzle Corner
- Keystone Card Discovery - Charles T. Jordan
- Trickster Monthly (report from B.A.T.)
- Melt Away Card Vanish - comments by Robert D. Rafferty
- Muir's Laugh Lines Number Two at printer
- additional gossip
- Dr. Clarence Talbot given engraved silver plate for 35 years as President of The Spokane Mystic Club
- John Braun to retire as editor of The Linking Ring
- Bruce Elliott re: Capillary Action
- Dizzy Dice
- advertisements
- The Bat - Number Fifty-Seven - September 1948 - 12 pages
- News of the 13th Annual Convention - Pacific Coast Association of Magicians - Reno
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- Gag Bag
- Any Card Spell - Gerald Kosky
- Bill in Cigaret - from the routine of The Leightons
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Puzzle Corner
- photo of three puzzlers: Ross Burley, Edwin Tabor & Monte Dernham
- My Invisible Pass - James Kolocotronis
- Trickster Monthly (report from B.A.T.)
- push for subscriptions
- September selection - Official Wise Guy Card Trick - Joe Karson
- other September selection - a "hot" little novelty
- Recent Library Acquisitions
- advertisements
- The Bat - Number Fifty-Eight - October 1948 - 8 pages
- Who Wrote the Tricks of Charles T. Jordan? - An Open Letter to Bruce Elliott
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- Gag Bag
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Victor's Discovery
- The Double-Backed Discovery
- Gravatt's Double Backed Discovery
- Perfect Location
- Photographic Coins of 1948 - Bob Gunther
- Puzzle Corner
- Trickster Monthly (report from B.A.T.)
- The Brotherhood of American Tricksters [B.A.T.] to terminate in February 1949
- new Buying Plan to start in January 1949
- November selection - Magidotes - Robert Orben
- December selection - Repeating Rabbits
- January selection - Entertaining by Magic - Hermann Pallme
- final selection - Magic from A 2 Z - Arthur Leroy
- plus - Strange Interlude - Joe Karson
- Mel Stover - puzzle
- advertisements
- The Bat - Number Fifty-Nine - November 1948 - 8 pages
- Trailing The Dove-Tail Shuffle To It's Lair - Charles T. Jordan
- 1. Close - Range Mind Reading
- 2. Long Distance Mind Reading [see Bat #9, page 47]
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- Puzzle Corner
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Eerie Cards
- Cards and Matches
- Gag Bag
- Columnist Minus Best Shirt After Contact With Fox, Expert Magician - reprint
- Trickster Monthly (report from B.A.T.)
- shipment this month - conclusion to the B.A.T.
- new buying Plan
- and other gossip
- Keeping TAB
- Clayton Rawson to edit the Unicorn Mystery Club News
- Robert Lund to be editor of Conjuror's Magazine
- bit with magnets
- Edwin Tabor written up in the Berkeley Gazette
- photo The Society of Quad City Magicians entertaining Dell O'Dell
- advertisements
- The Bat - Number Sixty - December 1948 - 8 pages
- Who Is He? - with photo
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- Who Is He? - Glenn G. Gravatt
- European Magic - Glenn G. Gravatt
- hollow and hinged wooden egg with rubber bird and egg - Bartl
- Brahma Rings
- Neptune Fishing - Bartl
- Trailing The Dove-Tail Shuffle To It's Lair - Charles T. Jordan - continued
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- The Professor's Card Trick
- Spectacle Discovery
- "4th or 5th" Discovery
- Two Person Card and Number
- Gag Bag
- cartoon - Keinen & Tim
- Trickster Monthly (report from B.A.T.)
- List of B.A.T. selections
- Puzzle Corner
- advertisements
- The Bat - Number Sixty-One - January 1949 - 8 pages
- The Bill Tube - Frank M. Chapman & Lloyd E. Jones
- The Lloyd E. Jones Presentation
- A Mishap
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- advertisements
- Puzzle Corner
- Trailing The Dove-Tail Shuffle To It's Lair - Charles T. Jordan - continued
- Trickster Monthly
- Welcome Buying Plan
- Baffling Bugs - Ernie Kolb
- Twisting the Lion's Tail
- Heart Throb - Eddie Joseph
- Laughing Rabbit Calendars
- Gag Bag
- Eyster "Egg" - reprint
- sparklers
- The Comedy closing of Jimmy James
- Herschal Comedy Effect
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Stunner Card Miracle
- Count Ten
- A Cutting Discovery
- The Bat - Number Sixty-Two - February 1949 - 12 pages
- Jean Foley - photo
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- The Bill Tube ideas
- Jean Foley
- Read This! - subscriptions expire
- Surprise Sponge Climax - Dr. L. Rothbart
- Simplex Telephone Trick - James Kolocotronis
- Ovette's Better Ball to Ribbon
- The Bill Tube - Frank M. Chapman & Lloyd E. Jones
- The Lloyd E. Jones Card in Tube
- Flash Bill and Tube Presentation
- advertisements
- Dante's "The Foolies of 1949" - program
- The Dante Show for 1949
- Cyclopedia? Of Magic - Henry Hay - published
- Puzzle Corner
- Trickster Monthly
- Gag Bag
- Locks Hold Magician - reprint
- Magician Foiled - reprint
- A Very Tricky Christmas Greeting from The Larricks - from Christmas Card
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Thumbwriter Discovery
- Found on the Forehead
- Flying Reverse
- Salted Card
- Trailing The Dove-Tail Shuffle To It's Lair - Charles T. Jordan - continued
- 5. The Dealing Dovetail Detection
- Table Lifting
- Honestly, Mr. Washington, We can not tell a lie! - advertising
- Foley's Magic Shop - advertising
- The Bat - Number Sixty-Three - March 1949 - 12 pages
- R. C. Buff - photo
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- continuation of B.A.T. as part of The Bat
- R. C. Buff & The Modern Magi
- R. C. Buff aka Claudio, the Magician
- Modern Magi Magic
- The Sliding Thumb - R. C. Buff
- Monkey Business - Roy Eaton
- The Bill Tube - Frank M. Chapman & Lloyd E. Jones
- Druvos
- A Druvos Variant
- Sucker!
- Trailing The Dove-Tail Shuffle To It's Lair - Charles T. Jordan - concluded
- 6. The Rolling-Off-A-Log Detection
- 7. The Full Hand
- Premonition? - defense of Eddie Joseph's effect
- The Modern Magi - R. C. Buff
- a ball in glass effect - C. Roy Eaton
- Salt Go! - C. Roy Eaton
- Instanto Change of Cigarette to Bouquet - Allan Lambie
- Try This With A Thimble - R. C. Buff
- advertisement
- Puzzle Corner
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Discoveries Using Key Cards
- "Off-Color" Card Location
- Gag Bag
- The Comedy Chalk Talk Artist - Paul W. Curtiss
- Invisible Rabbit - W. H. Pershing
- Comedy Kit - Monte Harris
- $1,000 Challenge Hypnotic Feat - P. C. Sorcar
- Opening Patter for Cards - Lee Clark
- advertisements
- The Bat - Number Sixty-Four - April 1949 - 12 pages
- Past Presidents P.C.A.M.
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- Conventions: S.A.M. (Denver), P.C.A.M. (Hollywood) & I.B.M. (Chicago)
- Past Presidents of P.C.A.M. since its inception in Seattle in 1933
- Sid Fleischman
- song published - Do You Remember - Julia (& Jim) Thompson
- P.C.A.M. convention Plans
- The Structural Elements of a Magical Act - Caryl S. Fleming
- The Bill Tube - Frank M. Chapman & Lloyd E. Jones
- The Prolix Spirit Answers - Wilbur Kattner
- Answer Number One
- The Dusenbery Deviller - H. Syril Dusenbery
- Television Emmy winner is a girl with a story - re: Shirley Dinsdale - reprint
- The Inseparable Pair - Royal H. Brin, Jr.
- 30th Century Ropes and Rings - Cyro
- Puzzle Corner
- A Billiard Ball Finale - Joseph Ovette
- Gag Bag
- Man Overboard - Tom Barton
- The Vanishing Matches
- The Stars of the Firmament
- The Wonderful Vanishing Umbrellas
- Candidates for an Oscar
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- The Inquisitive Jack
- Easy Card Discovery
- Simple Location
- Now Ready - Dai Vernon's Select Secrets - new edition
- advertisements
- P.C.A.M. flyer
- The Bat - Number Sixty-Five - May 1949 - 12 pages
- caricature of Caryl S. Fleming
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- Magic in the Modern Manner - Orville Mayer - printed
- magic contest
- Caryl S. Fleming
- P.C.A.M. Convention plans
- Dr. Henry Ridgely Evans dies
- Edward M. Reno dies
- Harry Blackstone recovering
- Gerrie Larsen completed 13 TV films
- John J. McManus challenges John Mulholland to perform Dr. Hooker Rising Card Trick
- Earl Rybolt breaks hip
- Scarne on Cards now out
- Music for the Magical Act - Caryl S. Fleming
- Da Vinci's Dexterity - Richard Gray
- Confusion to the Nth Degree - Richard Gray
- The Dissolving Card - Henry Hardin
- The Bill Tube - Frank M. Chapman & Lloyd E. Jones
- Puzzle Corner
- performers at the P.C.A.M. Convention
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Mental Touch
- Sandwich Card Trick
- Foretold
- Gag Bag
- Light Comedy - Len Belcher
- photo - Jimmy Eyster producing a live chinchilla
- Tommy Windsor Celebrating 25th Year - reprint
- Magic Contest
- advertisements
- P.C.A.M. flyer
- The Bat - Number Sixty-Six - June 1949 - 12 pages
- photo - Tommy Windsor
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- Puzzle Corner
- Miniature Rapping Hand - Dr. Stanley Jaks
- Thirty-One - Wilbur Kattner
- Thoughts on Being an M.C. - Frank L. Wagar
- The Bill Tube - Frank M. Chapman & Lloyd E. Jones
- 21st Annual Conference - Society of American Magicians (Denver)
- Saturday, April 9th Proclaimed "Tommy Windsor Day" - reprint
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Face Up and Face Down
- Mistakes Will Happen
- The Name Spells the Card
- advertisements
- Magic contest
- advertisements
- The Bat - Number Sixty-Seven - July 1949 - 12 pages
- photo - Jimmy Sanders
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- The Bat is now the official organ of the Magic Dealers Association
- Merv Taylor - new M.D.A. President
- Ralph Read - new M.D.A. Secretary
- Jimmy Sanders - King of the Color Changing Knives
- Sid Fleischman has a daughter
- Orson Welles' Black Magic released
- Sanders Knife Routine - for set of 3 Color changing knives
- Move Number 1
- Move Number 2
- With One Knife
- With Two Knives
- Removing the Handles
- Pentagram Presents
- Ultra-Anti-Gravity - Olle Oson Liberg
- The Bill Tube - Frank M. Chapman & Lloyd E. Jones
- The Bill Tube Production
- Production Continued
- The I.B.M. - The 21st Annual convention (Chicago)
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Mistakes Will Happen (Variation)
- Three File Discovery
- Matched Selection
- Puzzle Corner
- advertisements
- News of the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians Convention
- 14th Annual Convention, Hollywood
- advertisements
- The Bat - Voice of the M.D.A. - Number Sixty-Eight - August 1949 - 16 pages
- photo - Merv Taylor
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- What's With The Bat - reprint
- Bob Gunther has a son
- S.A.M. & I.B.M. to hold joint convention in Chicago in 1950
- Murder's No Accident - novel - Sid Fleischman
- Merv Taylor
- The Gag Bag
- Juggling for Fun - Larry Weeks - gags
- gags and ideas seen at the recent conventions
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Unique Discovery
- Miracle Spread
- Cardomatic
- Among the Dealers
- It's Magic & Haskell Trick Cools Magicians - reprints
- Deep Freeze from Bob Haskell
- Dick Swanson
- Marko dies
- Max Holden, Ex-Vaudeville Magician, Dies - reprint
- Max Holden
- Ormond McGill - "East Indian Miracles" show
- Pop! - John Murray
- The Bill Tube - Frank M. Chapman & Lloyd E. Jones
- The Production Finishes!
- Multum In Parvo Supreme - Ross A. Burley
- Abracadabra Presents
- The Temple of Justice - Len Belcher
- The Altar of Truth - Len Belcher
- Puzzle Corner
- How's That Again?
- advertisement
- Magic Dealers Association, Inc.
- membership list
- Terror Eyes - Gene Gordon
- Glassaway - Gene Gordon
- rubber bands - Peter Raven
- Devano Rising Cards - Ralph Greenough
- Stan Payne Rabbit
- advertisements
- The Bat - Voice of the M.D.A. - Number Sixty-Nine - September 1949 - 12 pages
- photo - Gene Gordon
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- Puzzle Corner
- 3+3=12 - Answer to "How's That Again?"
- Slow Burn - Sid Fleischman
- cartoon - Johnnie Murray
- The Bill Tube - Frank Chapman & Lloyd E. Jones
- patter theme - Glyndon Smith
- Johnnie Murray's page
- Who's Crazy?
- Sugar Lump
- Bottle Business (Miniatures)
- Ship in a Bottle
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- The "Twenty Six" Location
- Pusho
- Among the Dealers
- Ralph Greenough & Tannen's
- catalogues - Tannen & Tiny Grant
- Ralph Hull's Delirium Tremens Deck available again
- Haskell's Card Sword
- additions to M.D.A. membership list
- S. S. Adams has purchased Fun, Inc.
- Boss Magic company purchased assets of Chicago Magic Company
- Rufus Steele's 52 Amazing Card Tricks now available
- Jack Chanin
- Percy Abbott & Harold Alberto
- Dolph Rudin - Fifteen Puzzle
- The Gag Bag
- gags and ideas seen at the recent conventions
- advertisements
- The Bat - Voice of the M.D.A. - Number Seventy - October 1949 - 16 pages
- photo - Tom Dethlefsen
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- Percy James' Telocator in September Modern Magi
- Frank Chapman
- one section of the Bill Tube is really a tiny Phantom Tube - Frank Chapman
- Chris Charlton
- Bats Also Come Back - reprint
- Tom Dethlefsen
- Tie Trickery - Richard Gray
- Puzzle Corner
- Plastic Slat Card Frame with Card Frame Tricks - Milbourne Christopher
- Indestructible Card
- The Bashful Card
- Minar's Horn of Plenty - Minar
- The Bill Tube - Frank Chapman & Lloyd E. Jones
- Women Wanted - ad reprint
- Johnnie Murray's page
- vanish of a paper match
- A Lou Tannen Card Silk attached to Bang Gun
- The Magic Bat - The Unknown Card - S. K. Vasantha Kumar
- Ace City Magician, Charlie Howard, Dies - reprint & article
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Push Discovery
- Spectator's Selection
- Triple Discovery
- cartoon - J. Murray
- Dante Show quits State Fair Ground - reprint
- Among the Dealers
- D. Robbins & Company - free catalog
- Jean Foley
- Walter B. Gibson weds Litza Raymond
- Bill Sullivan's story trick - Across the Border
- Edgar Ralston
- Terror Eyes
- 1950 Abbott's Get-Together cancelled
- Dick Swanson
- Tommy Windsor
- Back to Kenton Party
- Delirium Tremens Deck
- Peter Raven
- The Gag Bag
- Melvin Brockhaus
- little rubber lizards
- Talking Teeth
- Halloween ideas
- Tricoincido - Eddie Clever
- advertisements
- The Bat - Voice of the M.D.A. - Number Seventy-One - November 1949 - 16 pages
- photo - Lloyd W. Chambers
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- S.O.S. [Selling Out Sale]
- Lloyd W. Chambers
- Mental Magic - Al Baker - to be released
- Unbelievable - a Double Daring Publication
- Canasta--atsanac - Robert Gable
- Plant Hypnosis - Robert Gray
- Ghostly Seconds - Vynn Boyar
- two page newspaper spread - Robert Nelson
- Insurance Policy - Tommy Windsor
- Jack Hughes
- The Piddingtons
- Big Magic Contest
- Expert Card Technique - out of print
- The California Magic Club
- The Bat not part of S.O.S.
- Snake in the Basket Routine - Jumbo Snake Basket Routine - Gene Gordon
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Puzzle Corner
- The Bill Tube - Frank Chapman & Lloyd E. Jones
- month prediction using matches
- a Brain Buster combo
- The Gag Bag
- Talking Teeth
- keeping goldfish active
- carrying the Anti-Gravico gimmick
- Holiday Season show ideas
- Among the Dealers
- Rattle Bars - Star Magic
- Roger Montandon's Juggler's Bulletin to be replaced with a Juggling Annual
- Dave Robbins - new location
- Ralph Read planning Slydini tour
- Diablo Slate - Holden's
- Cube-A-Libre - Golden Gate Magic
- Haines' House of Cards
- Piff-Paff-Poof Outdone - Hall Magic
- Edgar Ralston - nesting plastic thimbles
- Robert Orben in Genii
- advertisements
- Here We Go Again! - S.O.S.
- advertisements
- The Bat - Voice of the M.D.A. - Number Seventy-Two - December 1949 - 16 pages
- caricature of F. M. Chapman
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- Lloyd E. Jones featured in November issue of Profitable Hobbies
- Johnnie Murray's mother passed away
- Frank Davies dies
- U.N. working on an international copyright law
- John B. Lewis dies
- Bert Waring honored
- Frank M. Chapman
- Atomic Power - Eddie Joseph
- advertisements
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Best 26 Key Card (Variation)
- Adding the Pips
- Puzzle Corner
- John B. Lewis, Jeweler, Dies at 50 - two reprints and article
- match on coin - Johnnie Murray
- advertisement
- The World Is Topsy-Turvy On the Side of Wonder Hill - reprint
- Among the Dealers
- congratulations Conjuror's
- Gene Gordon moves
- Unbelievable - card mystery
- Magic limited Calendars
- nesting thimbles - Edgar Ralston
- Ronald Haines - free rules for Canasta
- Dave Robbins & Company considering more expansion
- Invisible Prediction - Hall Magic
- Rope-E-Scape - Hall Magic
- Holden's Diablo Slate
- Holetite Pencil - Sanders Magic
- Magic Contest ended
- Wandering Lipsticks - Star Magic
- Cube-A-Libre - Golden Gate Magic
- advertisements
- The Gag Bag
- zipper banana gag
- Glassaway idea - Edwin Tabor
- advertisements
- The Bill Tube - Frank Chapman & Lloyd E. Jones
- spring snake in a bill tube gag - Johnnie Murray
- 300 Lbs. or Over - ad reprint
- advertisements
- The Bat - Voice of the M.D.A. - Number Seventy-Three - January 1950 - 20 pages
- photo of Stan Payne
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- Slydini appeared locally
- Magic Contest ended
- Bunny Book - James Lee
- About Rabbits
- Rabbit Production
- Loading Passe Passe Bottle & Tube
- Lota Bowl Load
- Hat Loading Bunny Bundles
- Box or Hat Loading
- Fish Bowl Bunny
- James Lee's Bunny Bundle Collar
- Bunny Production from Newspaper
- Another Newspaper Load
- The Newspaper Rabbit
- The Care and Feeding of Spring Rabbits, Puppets, or Any Magical Prop Made of Fur
- advertisement
- Magic Dealers Association, Inc.
- advertisements
- The Gag Bag
- A Few Quickies and Ideas
- some bunny ideas
- photo of James Lee
- The Magic Bat - Sympathetic Card - S. K. Vasantha Kumar
- The Magician's Alphabet - Charles Cabot
- Stan Payne says not to overdo fake rabbit kicking
- Keeping TAB
- Stan Payne & Star Magic
- Bill Brema, last of the Brema's dies
- Slydini Pacific Coast Tour
- Pete's Prestidigitator - re: Raymond C. Gericke - reprint
- Joins Exclusive 50-50 club - Magician Cuts Reporter - re: Robert Harbin - reprint
- Aided Ill Executive Offered By Widow - the late Tom Boyer - reprint
- The Bill Tube - Frank Chapman & Lloyd E. Jones
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Best 26 Key Card (Variation)
- Adding the Pips
- advertisements
- Puzzle Corner
- Minar's Son's Coffee Pot of Plenty - Minar
- Slydidi's advice on handling a dummy bunny
- advertisements
- The Bat - Voice of the M.D.A. - Number Seventy-Four - February 1950 - 12 pages
- photo of Edwin Tabor
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- Edwin Tabor
- J. B. Bobo
- Surprise Packages
- Stull Magic rumored to be closing
- Tenkai and Okinu to return to West Coast
- The Little Dice Trick - J. B. Bobo
- A Hole in the Head - Ace Gorham
- The Bill Tube - Frank Chapman & Lloyd E. Jones
- "The Answer in the Dark" - Jack Yeager
- Divination Tube - Frank M. Chapman
- How to Throw a Seven - John Larrick
- advertisements
- The Gag Bag
- Johnnie Murray - floating matches
- Johnnie Murray - name on sugar cube
- Mariano Palhinha - uses for the Buddha Money Mystery
- Among the Dealers
- Jean Hugard hit by car
- Acme Novelty Company joins M.D.A.
- Nelson Enterprises - Secret Invention
- Tom Dethlefsen in new location
- Merv Taylor expands
- Star Magic - M.C. Bow Tie
- Al Caroselli dies - with reprint
- ads by M.D.A.
- Hall Magic - new list
- Magic Limited's S.O.S.
- announcements for future issues
- Homing Cane - Edwin Taboe
- advertisement
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Automatic Location
- Los Magicos Location
- advertisements
- The Bat - Voice of the M.D.A. - Number Seventy-Five - March 1950 - 12 pages
- photo of Bert Waring
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- the future of M.U.M.
- an evening with Harold Agnew & Lyle Laughlin (Carlyle)
- Bert Waring
- Triple Thimble Tricks - Hen Fetsch
- Thimble Gone
- Thimble Repeat
- Thimbletrate
- Mental Thimble
- Thimble Pass
- Dime in Thimble
- Thimble Full
- Thimble Tip
- advertisements
- Tabbed - Pete Post - clippings re: Magigals
- Hecklers Don't Worry Sonny---He Dishes It Right Back - clipping re: Sonny Richards
- The Bill Tube - Frank Chapman & Lloyd E. Jones
- The Great Substitution - Gerald Kosky
- Puzzle Corner
- cartoon - Tim
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- The Gag Bag
- a beer with two heads - Johnnie Murray
- buffalo nickel gag - Johnnie Murry
- Easter paddle idea - Bert Hansen
- advertisements
- The Bat - Voice of the M.D.A. - Number Seventy-Six - April 1950 - 12 pages
- photo - Carlyle
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- Carlyle & Wanda Warren
- Joan Brandon
- Announcement - Who is the Man of Magic for the Last Half Century?
- Carlyle's One Hand Card Steal
- About Town - clippings
- James W. Farney, 41, Manager of Super Market and Magician, Dies
- Sleight of Hand-cuffs - re: Thorton Wyman
- Magician Catches Bullet in Teeth to Amaze His Fellow Tricksters - re: Hubert Lambert
- Theater Man Asks Return of Coffin; 'All Is Forgiven'
- Finds Stolen Coffin at High School - re: Ben Toussaint
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- advertisement
- The Gag Bag
- Buddha Money Mystery routine - Everett Samuels
- fruit in bottle - Johnnie Murray
- rock on roof - Carnell Norvell
- The Bill Tube - Frank Chapman & Lloyd E. Jones
- James A. Lucier
- Coins in Envelope Prediction
- The Speedy Magician
- An Un-Matched Transposition
- Puzzle Corner
- Among the Dealers
- Jim Swoger - Responsible for every deck sent to the South Pacific in WWII having a short card
- Tom Dethelfsen and the return of the Invisible Bovine
- Gene Gordon - Within the Shuffle
- Mainly Mental - C. L. Boarde
- Jim Swoger has taken over the Mark Jacob effects
- Wandering Lipsticks - Star Magic
- advertisements
- The Bat - Voice of the M.D.A. - Number Seventy-Seven - May 1950 - 12 pages
- Larrick's Rabbit Box - John Larrick
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- The Man of Magic for the Half-Century?
- Oakland Magic Circle
- Lloyd E. Jones - Honorary Member of the Indian Magic Expansion Board
- Djinn - magical monthly from Copenhagen
- clippings
- Nothing up the Beak - re: Walter Gibson & Magic Explained
- Pete Post says - Pete's Policeman - loaded dice
- Bob Considine
- An Old Con Game Is Revived Again - It Seems This Fellow Was Going to Pittsburgh, Too
- Briton's Magic Fails All But 5 Conventioneers
- Johnnie Murray's page
- message on burnt match head
- The Tagoonie Bugs
- mouse in ice cube
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Just Think
- Stop, Look, and Think
- Six Remedies For Stage Fright - Pete Simer
- 1. Keep Fit
- 2. Smile Big
- 3. Feel Friendly or Superior
- 4. Think of Others
- 5. Practice
- 6. The Master Cure - Speak Only When You Have Something to Say
- advertisements
- Puzzle Corner
- advertisements
- The Bat - Voice of the M.D.A. - Number Seventy-Eight - June 1950 - 12 pages
- Chandler Stevens Pres.-PCAM
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- Thimble Notes - Charles R. Blyth, Jr. comes to The Bat
- Portland Issue
- Stan Greer extends invitation to Portland & On To Portland! [PCAM]
- clippings
- Hand Quicker'n Eye - re: Portland PCAM Convention
- S.J. Rotary Takes In 7 Newcomers - re: show by Jan Ballen
- Most Popular Professor Has Strange Notion - re: Dr. Gerald Ehrlich
- Mr. Magic and J.J. - TV review
- Amalie Magic theater - TV Review
- Stage Magic For Amateurs - Charles E. Gurney, M.D.
- Lord! Give Me Courage to be a Trouper - poem - Bernie Walsh
- Wrong Again! - Chandler Stevens
- A Two Card Transposition - Jimmie Stoppard
- Portland Poona Patter - Price Burlingame
- Close-Up Quickies - Desmond
- Vanishing Deck
- For Coin in Boxes effect
- Political Economy - R. Vernon Cook
- advertisements
- Routine with the 20th Century Silks - Stan Greer
- advertisements
- The Bat - Voice of the M.D.A. - Number Seventy-Nine - July 1950 - 12 pages
- Unconventional Report - I.B.M. and S.A.M. Combined Convention - Chicago
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- Edward O. Drane - new President of the M.D.A.
- Jim Swoger's father dies the day before the Convention
- Regow's Magic
- Nu-Kwik Kolor Change
- Select-A-Drink
- Ball and Lemon Routine
- Mix Master Deck
- Town House - Bouncing Putty
- Tiny Grant
- Okito
- Gemagic
- Jack Chanin
- advertisements
- Thimble Notes - Charles R. Blyth, Jr., editor
- Loyd's New Paragon Thimble Penetration
- Thimble Thoughts
- advertisements
- Puzzle Corner
- Harry A. Canar Dies
- Edwin Tabor's Reel Trick
- advertisements
- The Bat - Voice of the M.D.A. - Number Eighty - August 1950 [misnumbered as 1959] - 16 pages
- P.C.A.M. Portland Convention
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- T.V. in conventions
- Geoffrey Buckingham & film magic
- Thimble Notes
- clippings - re: P.C.A.M. Convention
- Mayor Gets "Rabbit"
- Mishap - Jean Foley cuts tie of Harry Clayton
- New Tricks
- Capital 'Prop' for Magic Hat
- Magic Shown By Visitors
- clippings
- Walter Winchell - bar gag described
- Pete Post says - Payoff Pete - trick with a bill
- Wood Soanes - lizard game
- Magician's Cash Box No Mystery to N.Y. Thief - re: Milbourne Christopher
- Magician Needs Nimble Tongue to Go With Agile Fingers, Says [Byron] Fish
- Ford Times - Paul Bunyan versus the Conveyor Belt - William Hazlett Upson - re: Mobius Strip
- Color Change Extraordinary - Royal H. Brin Jr.
- advertisement
- Dealer News
- wand set
- stamping outfit to make expanded shells
- Sky Hook
- Mar-Vel-Us Deck - Joe Berg
- Zebrasilk - Golden Gate Magic
- Merv Taylor's production Box
- baby skunk - Star Magic
- Wandering Lipsticks - Golden Gate Magic & Star Magic
- Jimmie Muir's Laugh Lines No. 4
- McAthy's Smart Comedy
- Patter for Standard Tricks - Robert Orben
- rubber squirting mouse
- card box
- Bouncing Putty
- Puzzle Corner
- The Gag Bag
- Jay Bedsworth - fake man in sofa
- Jack McCoy - gag line
- Johnnie Zandt - gag line
- Jay Bedsworth - gag line
- Ernie Bryan - gag line
- Senator Crandall
- Karrel Fox
- Desmond - hook through tongue
- Cliff Davidson - mental magic
- P.A.C.M. trophy winners
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Thoughtful Joker
- Card and Number Detection
- Simplicity Location
- Thimble Notes - Charles R. Blyth, Jr., editor
- Jumping Thimble - Richard Gray
- Cig. To Pipe - Lu Brent
- advertisements
- The Bat - Voice of the M.D.A. - Number Eighty-One - September 1950 - 12 pages
- photo - Bill Shelly
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- a kit of impromptu material
- cartoon - Nyle Rothenbach
- Thimble Notes - Charles R. Blyth, Jr., editor
- Chameleon Thimble - Joe Berg
- The Great Thimble Illusion - Norman Houghton
- clippings
- A Hobby? He Has 'Em in Bunches - re: R. S. Glover
- Pete Post says - Payoff Pete
- Galli Learns Fishing Trick, Pays $25 Fine - re: Galli Galli
- Magician Brotherhood Entertains Lu Brent
- Baghdad Bagatelle - re: Bob Fischer
- Magician Rides Bicycle Blindfolded in Calcutta - re: Gogia Pasha
- Fancy One-Hand Deal - Gerald Kosky
- Puzzle Corner
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- You Do As I Do
- Draw Coincidence
- W. C. Shelly - cover personality
- Among the Dealers
- Math Miracles - Wallace Lee
- Linking Ring set - D. Robbins
- What I Know About Women - D. Robbins
- Morris Fox of Royal Magic
- Regow's Ball and Lemon Routine
- Haines' Blok-Kord
- Bob Nelson's publicity
- Tiny Grant - catalog
- advertisements
- The Gag Bag
- Caro Miller - business card using a Wolf Pack
- Glenn Gravatt - Wolf Pack as a Stripper Deck
- A Suggested Routine - Everett Samuels
- Henk Vermeyden's Triks - magazine from Holland
- Corvello finds a thought of card on table
- Arnold Belais - long pocket
- Up The Sleeve - Royal H. Brin, Jr.
- advertisements
- The Bat - Voice of the M.D.A. - Number Eighty-Two - October 1950 - 12 pages
- photo - James Swoger
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- TAB to be revived
- James Swoger
- list of tricks registered with the M.D.A. mailed to members
- cartoon - Nyle Rothenbach
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Card in Pocket
- Dual Sympathy
- Sympathetic Decks
- Puzzle Corner
- advertisements
- The Gag Bag
- Tom Dethlefsen - stamping "Sample" on bills
- a box for that unexpected call
- Johnnie Murray - broken cigarette gag
- Magic Hand Puppet Rabbit to light cigarette
- Willane - rabbit in hat
- Climatic Rope - Royal H. Brin, Jr.
- advertisements
- Thimble Notes - Charles R. Blyth, Jr., editor
- Sleight of Hand Production of Five Thimbles - Jimmie Wilson, Sr.
- Famous Names in Thimble Magic
- TAB is Back!
- Close-Outs - New & Used Magic - Magic Limited advertising
- Silks & Pallette - Mariano Palhinha
- Among the Dealers
- Nu-Kwik Kolor Change - Regow's
- Magical Gems - Paul Rosini
- Math Magic - Wallace Lee
- Zebrasilk - Golden Gate Magic
- Baby Stinker - Star Magic
- Four 2 One rope effect - Mecca Magic Studio
- Douglas Magicland catalog
- Within The Shuffle - Gene Gordon
- advertisements
- The Bat - Voice of the M.D.A. - Number Eighty-Three - November 1950 - 16 pages
- The Half Century's Man of Magic - Harry Houdini 1874-1926
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- Inside Magic - George Boston
- New Ways to Mystify - Robert Parrish
- TAB plan explained
- cartoon - Nyle Rothenbach
- The Half Century's Man of Magic - Harry Houdini
- Fifth Annual T.A.O.M. Convention - M. B. (Doc) Mahendra
- The Bill Tube - Chapman & Jones
- Drink Vanishes - Reappears in Impossible Place
- Wilf Watson - calls Bill Tube his pill holder
- advertisements
- The Gag Bag
- The Wolf Concentrates - Gerald Kosky
- Snake-Rope - Allan Lambie
- Johnnie Murray - removing shirt from vent figure
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Four Card Do As I Do
- You Did It
- "Do As I Do" Prediction
- Puzzle Corner
- advertisements
- Thimble Notes - Charles R. Blyth, Jr., editor
- Literature for Thimble Magic - Charles R. Blyth, Jr.
- Johnnie Murray - cup-through-cup move for thimbles
- clippings
- Oakland Magic Circle gift a T.V. to Naval Hospital
- "Silly Putty" Craze
- Tower Ticker - re: Jackie Miles
- TAB is Back!
- Among the Dealers
- Silk Gun Routines - Town House Magic
- Laugh Lines No. 5 - Jimmie Muir
- Christmas cards - Regow's
- Ed Mellon's routine for Nu-Kwik Kolor Change
- Kardcut - Hen Fetsch
- Professional Patter - Robert Orben
- Wit Parade - Red Baker & Milt Larsen
- Buma
- Pet Milk Can - Golden Gate Magic
- Helpful Stage Hints
- advertisements
- The Bat - Number Eighty-Four - December 1950 - 12 pages
- photo - Johnnie Murray
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- February to be last monthly Bat issue - plans for an annual issue
- cartoon - Nyle Rothenbach
- Double-Brain-Wave-Premonition - Nyle Rothenbach
- Puzzle Corner - Monte Dernham, editor
- advertisements
- clippings
- Local Police Captain Goes Hunting Criminals Armed With Brand New Weapon - A Crystal Ball - re: Al Mogul
- Pete's Payoff
- Harry Usher, Vaudeville Star, Succumbs at 59
- Off With That Blockhead! - re: King George as a vent
- Buzz Ball - radioactive golf ball
- Thimble Notes - Charles R. Blyth, Jr., editor
- Thimble Notes to continue after The Bat
- The Leipzig Move - De Vega
- A Tenkai Acquitment - Bob Gunther
- Meet "Cover Boy" Johnnie Murray
- The Gag Bag
- Merv Taylor hand buzzer to simulate broken gimmick in a rising card effect
- Who Is That? - Richard Gray
- Flash Fun - Richard Gray
- Nyle Rothenbach - on the Wolf Pack
- Harbin's Dippy Magnet variation
- Three-Card Outrage - Norman Houghton
- Among the Dealers
- Scarne on Card Tricks
- The Imperator Mental Test - Bryce Chambers
- The New Look for the Magic Show - R. E. Arthur
- Hen Fetsch's Kardkut variations
- advertisements
- The Bat - Number Eighty-Five - January 1951 - 12 pages
- photo of "Ted" & Jimmie "M.C." Muir
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- what happens after The Bat?
- J. B. Bobo working on second book
- first issue of "What's Doing"
- cartoon - Nyle Rothenbach
- Die Cocka-Lorum A Larrick - John Larrick
- clippings
- Modern Aladdins - telephone magicians
- Superman - re: Frank Harris bullet catch
- Grapette's P-R- trick - re: Phil Huckabee
- Guilty Plea in Bogus Coin Case - re: John Lamb & Arthur Wendell
- Stvling Bloke? - re: two small boys
- Spooks Prowl Fort For Midnight Show - re: Chan Loo
- Our Cover Duo "Ted" & Jimmie "M.C." Muir
- Among the Dealers
- Nu-Klick Kolor Change Gimmick contest - Jim Swoger
- Ted Collins
- Father Lloyd - second mail course in magic
- Gene Gordon
- Dick Swanson
- Dave Robbins
- Psychoanalysis - Chandu
- TAB Book Club
- The Gag Bag
- For Baby Sitters - Johnnie Murray
- Nyle Rothenbach - miniature deck gag
- A Sucker Effect - W. G. Craigen
- bird in audience gag
- cartoon - Nyle Rothenbach
- Thimble Notes - Charles R. Blyth, Jr., editor
- Thimble Thru Hand Back - Royal H. Brin, Jr.
- A Juggling Thimble Catch - Chester Dobksi
- Random Notes
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Predicto
- Another "You Do As I Do"
- Transposition in Reverse (No. 1)
- Constant Reader - Norman Houghton
- Puzzle Corner - Monte Dernham, editor
- advertisements
- The Bat - Voice of the M.D.A. - Number Eighty-Six - February 1951 - 12 pages
- photo - Lloyd E. Jones
- Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
- last of The Bat - start of What's Doing?
- bound Bats
- cartoon - Nyle Rothenbach
- The Capture of Black Carew - Frank M. Chapman
- clippings
- Magicians of Two States Gather for Annual Frolic; Large Crowd Views Show - re: Illinois & Iowa magicians
- There is Nothing Up My Sleeve but a Magician - re: Ring 38
- Magic - San Francisco magicians
- Wendell Corey Gets in the Shuffle - re: Harry Mendoza
- Clown Prince - re: Ed Freeman
- Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
- Transposition in Reverse (No. 3) [No. 2 not included]
- Transposition in Reverse (No. 4)
- Thimble Notes - Charles R. Blyth, Jr., editor
- Thimble on String - Chester Dobksi
- advertisements
- The Gag Bag
- Bewitched Broom - Richard Gray
- The Flat Flat Rabbit - Nyle Rothenbach
- cartoon - Nyle Rothenbach
- Kutto Kardo - Nyle Rothenbach
- advertisements
- cigarette Pet - Lu Brent
- Puzzle Corner - Monte Dernham, editor
- advertisements
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