The Gen Volume 1 (1945)
by Harry Stanley & Lewis Ganson

Some topics are

• Going Mental
• Comedy Card Production
• Forcing a Card
• Ghost Writing
• A Rib Tickler
• The Evacuee Doll

• Volume 1, Numbers 1-2-3, undated [reprint, Number 1 originally printed in December, 1945], 8 unnumbered pages
• Going Mental
• Comedy Card Production
• Ideas - Tips - Gags and What Have You!
• Forcing a Card
• Interruption

• Volume 1, Number 4, undated, 8 unnumbered pages
• editor's letter
• On the Spot - Theodore Annemann
• Ghost Writing
• A Good Gag
• A Nice Bit of "Business"
• The Gen Awards £10 - contest announcement
• "Interruption Gag"

• Volume 1, Number 5, undated, 8 unnumbered pages
• editor's letter
• On the Spot - Norman Rashleigh
• Demobbed - vent routine
• Getting Out an Old One - using the Evaporated Milk Jug
• Terrific Telephone Trick - with cards

• Volume 1, Number 6, undated, 8 unnumbered pages
• editor's letter
• A Rib Tickler! - The Flea-ing Card - Azmund
• The "Direct" Divination
• The Evacuee Doll - An Original Audience-tested Idea - Jimmy Flowers
• Demobbed (continued) - vent routine
• Secret of the "Direct" Divination

• Volume 1, Number 7, undated, 8 unnumbered pages
• editor's letter
• Jack Hughes - joined [to form Jack Hughes and Harry Stanley, The Unique Magic Studio]
• A Fine Double - Frank Potts
• Rather Odd - card effect
• Living and Dead Test - Devlin

• Volume 1, Number 8, undated, 13 unnumbered pages
• publisher's letter
• Miracles with Money - A Black Deed - Norman Rashleigh
• A Prize Winner (Reg. Wright)! At the Cotswold Convention
• An Award Situation [from Eric C. Lewis]

• Volume 1, Number 9, undated, 7 unnumbered pages
• some pages, including the cover are missing
• The Second Seer - Jack Shepherd

• Volume 1, Number 10, undated, 12 unnumbered pages
• Let's Have a Chat - editor's letter
• Guess It! - Mysterio
• Oscar Paulson was Struck with a Good Idea - horseshoe pad
• Research Department - formula for roughing fluid

• Volume 1, Number 11, undated, 12 unnumbered pages
• Let's Have a Chat - William G. Strickland, guest editor's letter
• Jack and the Beanstalk - A Fine Kiddies' Effect - Cyro
• Eric Wilson Talks to You about Entertaining Children
• On the Bus - J. K. Bays
• Al Koran gag card

• Volume 1, Number 12, undated, 16 unnumbered pages
• Research Department - formula for curing dry hands from The Great Masoni
• Under the Counter - product previews - Harry Stanley
• Let's Have a Chat - Francis White, guest editor's letter
• Living or Dead? - George Armstrong
• Eric Wilson Talks to You about Entertaining Children