January 1953 - December 1953
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor
385 pages
- The "Tops" - Volume 18, Number 1 - January 1953 - 32 pages
- With the Editor - Percy Abbott
- Contents
- Magical Card Finesse - Jerry Hornak
- Sleights with Cards
- A Rare Control
- A Succeeding Control
- Riffle Strip Control
- Three Controls
- Basic Move
- 1 - Side Slip Action
- 2 - Palm Slip Action
- 3 - The Crimp Action
- Ace Control
- Remember Twenty-Two - Dr. Maurice
- Some Magical Twists - V. C. Kitchen
- Dynamic Personality Tests
- Test No. 4 - Absolute Love
- Card and Ring - Roxy
- A Teaser - Si Stebbins
- Mathematical Spirits - Roxy
- Cardomatic - Stewart James
- The Shirt Pulling Trick
- re: The Amazing Cazan (Vantine and Cazan)
- Dusting Off Some Old Ones - Eddie Joseph
- re: Percy Abbott
- Calculated Confusion - J. P. Mintz, QM1 USN
- Cigo - A Clean-Cut Cigarette Vanish - Roxy
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter
- reviews
- Four Little Beans - John Ramsay
- Questions and Answers
- re: Lee Grabel
- Merchandising Magic - Tommy Windsor
- Now, On to the Get-Together - Demon Rembrandt
- So It's Laughs You Want! - Bob Brethen
- Don't Think
- Ventrivia
- The Poor Little Rich Girl
- The Story of One-Card Pete - Andy Anderson
- Magic on Chicago's Rialto - George Coon
- Minneapolis Magi's '52 Banquet - Bill Schreiber
- Comup, The Rising Silk - Prince Drakon
- Change It
- A Transposition
- Bill in Lemon Pays Off - Stan Stanley
- Karrell Fox "Retires" from Army
- The "Tops" - Volume 18, Number 2 - February 1953 - 32 pages
- With the Editor - Mel
- Contents
- Some Magical Twists - V. C. Kitchen
- The Milk of Human Kindness (or An Economy of Unselfishness)
- Other Uses for These Properties
- Diminishing Milk Glasses
- What Can You Do With a Milk Can?
- The Egg Bag with a Plus - A Comedy Gag =- Roxy
- Magical Card Finesse - Jerry Hornak
- A Better Glimpse
- Glimpsing Card at Any Number
- Glimpsing as a Force
- A Double-Lift Move
- Dusting Off Some Old Ones - Eddie Joseph
- Silk's Color Decomposition - Roxy
- So It's Laughs You Want! - Bob Brethen
- Why Does the Fair Sex Laugh at Jokes?
- Ventrivia
- Another Opening
- [Jim] Reneaux Manager of N. Y. Abbott's
- Magic on Chicago's Rialto - George Coon
- Chicago Magigals - Jerrie-Ann Musson
- Justo-Hi-Jo Christmas Party
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter
- What's New in Tricks?
- Miracle Discs - Ken Allen
- Yo-Yo Escape - Louis Histed
- How About Books?
- The Sphinx, December
- Annemann's Buried Treasures
- The Linking Ring
- Conjuring Psychology - Richard J. Weibel
- Sleight Bits - Robert Orben
- Okito - Edward Drane
- Classic Secrets of Magic - Bruce Elliott
- 12 Brand New Tricks - Eddie Joseph
- Max Andrew's Catalogue
- What's Doing In the Magazines?
- Hugard's Magic Monthly, September, October, November & December
- The Journal of Hypnotism, November
- M-U-M, October, November & December
- Abracadabra, Nos. 346-360
- The Wizard, September, October & November
- The Sphinx, December
- Genii, September, October, November & December
- The Modern Magi, October, November, December & January
- The Phoenix, Nos. 265-271
- The Magic Magazine, September, October, November & December
- The Gen, September, October, November & December
- Stars of Magic, complete set
- Arthur Dowler Convalescing
- Merchandising Magic - Tommy Windsor
- Line Forms to the Right! - re: 1st Pan-American Magic Congress
- Magic Outdoors - L. E. Roba Collins
- The Future Greats - Bill Pitts
- Dell [O'Dell] Now Magic Dealer
- re: Chang
- re: Virgil Show
- It's News, It Is! - re: Jack Ziter (Jay Zee), the Hypnotist) & Charlie Conrad
- Does Hyp Act on Navy Show - re: J. P. Mintz
- Magic Circle Annual Supper
- Two Well-Knowns Pass On - re: C. A> George Newmann & 2-10 Daniel
- The "Tops" - Volume 18, Number 3 - March 1953 - 32 pages
- With the Editor - Mel
- Contents
- Wrapping the Silks - Roxy
- Stage Aces - Bryce Chambers
- Thimble Magic - Roxy
- Anagramatic Facsimile - Stewart James
- Magical Card Finesse - Jerry Hornak
- Rear Palm Color Change
- Smart Glimpsing
- The Perfect Cut
- Cut and Restored Ribbon - Bob Thompson
- Some Magical Twists - V. C. Kitchen
- Some Prediction Ideas (12)
- Odds and Ends (22)
- Magic on Chicago's Rialto - George Coon
- Claims Razor Blade Idea His - re: Walter A. Freeman & Ray Reddig
- Magic Circle Opens Theatre
- Chicago Magigals - Jerrie-Ann Musson
- re: Jean Valton
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter
- club papers, etc.
- The Ledger, September thru February
- Magic Makers, September thru December
- MWCC Monthly
- The Joker
- The Barnstormer
- The Sorcerer, November
- The Spooks Speak
- The bat, Jr.
- Lloyd Jones - advertising calendar
- Top Hat Topics
- Irv Weiner - lists
- Dell O'Dell - publicity
- Sorcar - advertising
- Fleming Book Company - list
- Corsair
- What's New in Trickery?
- Hollywoodeck - Aldini
- Impromptu Impression - Irv Weiner
- Impromptu No Nesting Cup and Ball Routine - Irv Weiner
- Three Ball Monte - Irv Weiner
- [Jack] Yeager Entertains Buddies
- re: John C. Brennan
- re: Jack Rench
- Merchandising Magic - Tommy Windsor
- To List [C. George] Newmann Collection
- Magic Outdoors - L. E. Roba Collins
- So It's Laughs You Want! - Bob Brethen
- Ventrivia - The Facts of Life
- Magic Music - Bryce Chambers
- The Future Greats - Bill Pitts
- Magic Congress in Spain
- Arthur Dowler Passes On
- The "Tops" - Volume 18, Number 4 - April 1953 - 32 pages
- With the Editor - Mel
- Contents
- Magical Card Finesse - Jerry Hornak
- Back Palm Steal
- Back Palm Change
- Giant Fan Suggestion
- Split Fans with Both Hands
- Fans in a Hat Routine
- A Quick Fan Steal Production
- Quickest Four Aces - A3C Jack Yeager, USAF
- Two-Some - Bob Thompson
- One, Two and Three - Roxy
- Headlines Prediction Clincher - Bryce Chambers
- Television Mind Reading - Stewart James
- Another Coin Stand - Prince Drakon
- Miracle Card Transposition - Bryce Chambers
- Knife Through Card - Dr. Maurice
- Card and Boards - Roxy
- Magic on Chicago's Rialto - George Coon
- Wizard Club of Chicago - Clettis V. Musson
- Chicago Magigals - Jerrie-Ann Musson
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter
- reviews
- Dice Dexterity - Audley Walsh
- The Invisible Influence - Eddie Joseph
- String-a-Ring - Irv Weiner
- Questions and Answers
- Beg Your Pardon - correction: credit for The Story of One-Card Pete
- Uses Magic to Help Students - re: Dr. Abraham B. Hurwitz
- Merchandising Magic - Tommy Windsor
- So It's Laughs You Want! - Bob Brethen
- Comedy Clinic
- Animal Antics
- Ventrivia
- A Rope Trick - Arthur Andrews, Jr.
- News Account of "The Count" - re: Count Domenic le Foe (Alen Cooper Smith)
- Oh for the Life of a Sailor! - re: Arthur Lloyd
- re: Adolph Boldt
- re: C. Thomas Magrum
- Tricks Baffle London Judge - re: George Blake & Harry Stanley lawsuit
- re: Carl. W. Jones
- re: Lu Brant
- re: Guy L. Gerber
- Magic Outdoors - L. E. Roba Collins
- The Future Greats - Bill Pitts
- Arthur Buckley Dies
- Arthur Dowler [passes]
- The "Tops" - Volume 18, Number 5 - May 1953 - 32 pages
- With the Editor - Percy Abbott
- Contents
- Intelligentia - J. P. Mintz, QM1 USN
- Magic Heat Gimmick - L. T. Tucker
- The Ultimate Coincidence - Bryce Chambers
- Utility Vanish - Arthur Andrews, Jr.
- Magical Card Finesse - Jerry Hornak
- Card Fans from Nowhere
- More Fans from Air
- A Fan Prediction Move
- The Gambler's System - Billy Gargaro
- Two Crazy Card Stunts - Roxy
- A Crazy Location
- Mix-It-Up
- Impossible Card Discovery - Arthur Andrews, Jr.
- "Think Stop" Deluxe - Bryce Chambers
- Ethereal Cards - Roxy
- Cabalistic Chronology - Stewart James
- re: Jack Kodell and Mary Naylor marriage
- re: Neil Foster
- "All Fair" Card Trick - Frank Shepherd
- Torn Card Trick
- Daylight Saving Force
- Inacone Rope Cut Finale - Roxy
- re: Percy Abbott, Howard Melson (Mel) & Walter Harris
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter
- Mentioning the Magazines
- The Phoenix, Nos. 272-278
- The Magic Magazine, January, February & March
- M-U-M, February, March & April
- Hugard's Magic Monthly, January, February & March
- The Journal of Hypnotism, January-February & March-April
- Genii, January, February & March
- The Gen, January, February & March
- The Sphinx, March
- Abracadabra, Nos. 361-373
- The Modern Magi, February, March & April
- The Wizard, December & January
- Pentagram
- books & tricks
- Doodle-Art - Harry Bjorklund
- Triple Transposition - Irv Weiner
- The Gag Bag - E. W. Morris
- Monk [Watson] is Getting Around
- So It's Laughs You Want! - Bob Brethen
- The Crooked Mouth Family
- Magical Patter Chatter
- Ventrivia
- Chicago Magigals - Jerrie-Ann Musson
- Merchandising Magic - Tommy Windsor
- Byrne [Perkins] Off to Germany
- Magic on Chicago's Rialto - George Coon
- re: five stage illusion secrets in "Coronet for April
- Magic Outdoors - L. E. Roba Collins
- The Future Greats - Bill Pitts
- re: Clyde Cairy
- [Milbourne] Christopher Honored in N. Y.
- Wizard Club of Chicago - Clettis V. Musson
- Virgil Still "Down Under"
- re: The Great Levante
- re: Duke Stern
- Max Thiel Dies
- re: Lt. Lee Allen Estes
- The "Tops" - Volume 18, Number 6 - June 1953 - 32 pages
- With the Editor - Mel
- Contents
- A Bare-arm Coin Vanish - Bruce Jay
- Three-Deck Three-Card Monte - Hilliard Saunders
- Magical Card Finesse - Jerry Hornak
- A Fan of Cards Travels
- Vanishing Fifteen Cards Singly
- Continuous Production of a Single Card
- Production of Ten Single Cards
- One Thought in Ten
- Reversed 6-Card Repeat (A New Version - Second Method) - Roxy
- A Chinaman's Chance - Stewart James
- Coin-Go - Prince Drakon
- You're Mistaken - Robert Wedertz
- The Slow Motion Pass
- Mel's Confuso Card Trick - Demon Rembrandt
- Two Useful Card Boxes - Roxy
- Time Card - New version - Wlasovi
- So It's Laughs You Want! - Bob Brethen
- Spring, Spring, Beautiful Spring!
- Ventrivia
- Wizard Club of Chicago - Clettis V. Musson
- Chicago Magigals - Jerrie-Ann Musson
- Decatur Demons' Club Picnic
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter
- club publications
- The Barnstormer, February, March, April & May
- Corsair No. 73
- Psycho No. 5 - Teral Garrett
- The Bat, Jr.
- The Ledger
- The Magic Wand Correspondence Club [MWCC] Monthly, Nos. 5-7
- The Joker
- Magic Makers
- Spooks Speak
- Magicana (New Zealand)
- other
- Paul Fleming Book Review No. 160
- Sorcar - advertising
- Borts - advertising
- Gogia Pasha - advertising
- books and booklets
- The Book of Knowledge Annual for 1953 - Harold Rice
- Doodle-Art - Harry Bjorklund
- Triple Transposition - Irv Weiner
- The Gag Bag, Vol. 1 - E. W. Morris
- 100 :attest Tips on Tricks - Milbourne Christopher
- Memory of the Mind - Eddie Joseph
- Practical Magic - David Robbins, editor
- Teacher's Hypnotism Scares Kids - re: James D. Berry
- Merchandising Magic - Tommy Windsor
- Magic on Chicago's Rialto - George Coon
- Mulholland Rounds Out 40 Years in Magic - Demon Rembrandt
- Wills $15,000 Magic to Youth - re: Leroy S. Lowner
- Magic Outdoors - L. E. Roba Collins
- The Future Greats - Bill Pitts
- New Jersey Magicians' Society - Blackwood (Robert Lynn)
- Evo9lution of a Dream - Stewart James
- George Turner Dies
- Dick Swanson Dies
- The "Tops" - Volume 18, Number 7 - July 1953 - 32 pages
- With the Editor - Mel
- Contents
- Three-Purse Monte - Lu Brent
- Strangulation Tie - Prince Drakon
- Subtlety (Two Versions) - Roxy
- Kardany's Original Version
- Roxy Version
- Secret (Kardany Version)
- Secret (Roxy Version)
- Routine with a Borrowed Deck - Brent Weilbern
- Magical Card Finesse - Jerry Hornak
- Everywhere and Nowhere (With a Borrowed Deck)
- First Method
- Second Method
- Third Method
- re: Virgil and Julie
- The Lace Penetration - Harry Roydon
- The Spiked Rabbit - Charles R. Larson
- None Such Card Force - Roxy
- Ring on Wand (or Tape) - Prince Drakon
- Surprise Glass Exchange - J. B. Maxwell
- re: Sorcar
- Foreign Stars Feature Get-Together Shows - Dorny Will M.C. - Reservations Rolling In - Demon Rembrandt
- Wizard Club of Chicago - Clettis V. Musson
- Kid Show Lecture Feature of PCAM - re: Francis Ireland
- Maybe You Haven't Heard [humor]
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter
- reviews
- De Luxe Puzzle Set - Dave Robbins
- Silk Epic - "Hen" Fetsch
- Gift Exchange - "Hen" Fetsch
- Voodoo Rings - "Hen" Fetsch
- Breaking the Sound Barrier - "Hen" Fetsch
- Beer, Coke and Silks - Abbott's
- On The Spot - Everett Lyda & Ormond McGill
- re: Pvt. Byrne L. Gokee [Byrne Perkins]
- Abbott Bowlers in Tournament
- [Charlie] Worpell Top Air Force MC
- Merchandising Magic - Tommy Windsor
- re: Pvt. Edgar T. Corey
- So It's Laughs You Want! - Bob Brethen
- Columbus Day Monologue
- Ventrivia
- re: Harry Albacker
- Magic on Chicago's Rialto - George Coon
- The Future Greats - Bill Pitts
- Magic Outdoors - L. E. Roba Collins
- St. Louis SAM Show
- re: Conclave at Bideford, Devon, England
- "Houdini" Premiere in July
- An Up-to-Date Location (Three Cards) - Prince Drakon
- Two Easy Card Sleights - Roxy
- Sighting and Controlling Bottom Card
- Controlling the Bottom Card
- 20th Century Silks
- The "Tops" - Volume 18, Number 8 - August 1953 - 32 pages
- With the Editor - Mel
- Contents
- "The Limit" Production Box - Roxy
- Fan and Confetti - Jay Holtzapple
- A Close-Up Card Mystery - Bob Hummer
- Ten Cards to Pocket - Roxy
- Routine with a Borrowed Deck - Brent Weilbern - continued
- A Four-Ace Trick That Clicks
- A Follow-Up Effect
- For a Poker Hand
- Newsweek - John Novak
- Threaded or Unthreaded? - Prince Drakon
- Spell of Mystery - Stewart James
- Maskelyne's "Psycho" on View
- Magical Card Finesse - Jerry Hornak
- Card Elimination (Original Method)
- Ambitious Card Routine
- Three Cards to Pocket
- All One Card
- Evolution of a Dream (Second Version) - Stewart James
- Colored Ashes - Roxy
- Mail Via Radio - J. B. Maxwell
- Here Are Your Cards! - Prince Drakon
- Magi to Meet in Edinburgh
- Watching the Wizard's Watch - J. B. Maxwell
- Seeing in the Dark
- Wizard Club of Chicago - Clettis V. Musson
- New Jersey Magicians Society - Blackwood (Robert Lynn)
- re: Stanley Watson and Diane
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter
- reviews
- Hugard's Magic Monthly, Volume Nine - bound volume
- On the Spot - Everett Lyda & Ormond McGill
- Two Jardine Ellis Ring-on-Ribbon Routines - Bertram Millidge
- Screamline Comedy - Robert Orben
- Magic Wand
- comments about Del Ray
- Questions and Answers
- re: F. Mengelkamp
- Merchandising Magic - Tommy Windsor
- Magic on Chicago's Rialto - George Coon
- re: Vivian Cosby
- So It's Laughs You Want! - Bob Brethen
- Golf
- Klever Kid Composition, By Chinese Boy
- Kid's Composition On the Cow
- Ventrivia
- Bergen-McCarthy for TV
- Magi Meet in Spain
- The Sphinx Suspends
- Magic Outdoors - L. E. Roba Collins
- re: Byrne Perkins
- The Future Greats - Bill Pitts
- Wm. Larsen of Genii Dies
- Golden Jubilee Congress in 1954 - re: British Magical Society
- re: Paul Duke
- The "Tops" - Volume 18, Number 9 - September 1953 - 32 pages
- With the Editor - Mel
- Contents
- A Silk Gesture - Frank Csuri
- Phantom Frame Production - J. B. Maxwell
- Celebrity Prediction - Kendall Marrs
- Heads or Tails - Alexander (Kim Kee)
- Sleights Nouveau - Roxy
- Cards Fans
- Thimbles from the Air
- More Card Fans
- Cloro-ful - John Novak
- Routine with a Borrowed Deck - Brent Weilbern - conclusion
- Spectator Does the Trick
- The Spectators Continue
- Card in the Pocket
- A Pocket Switch
- An Automatic Location
- Magical Card Finesse - Jerry Hornak
- A Four-Ace Routine
- An Unsolvable Mystery Improved
- Roxy's Change-Over Palm - Jose A. Guerra (Roxy)
- For Vents Only - George McAthy
- Wizard Club of Chicago - Clettis V. Musson
- New Jersey Magicians Society - Blackwood (Robert Lynn)
- [Cecil] Lyle and Sorcar in London
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter
- reviews
- So Sweet As Magic - Bruce Elliott - fiction in Fantasy Fiction magazine for August
- magazines
- The Magic Wand, June
- Abracadabra, Nos. 374-389
- The Journal of Hypnotism, July-August
- The Wizard, February
- M-U-M, May
- Modern Magi, May through August
- Pentagram, April through June
- Genii, April through July
- The Magic Magazine, May through July
- Hugard's Magic Monthly, April through July
- The Gen, April through July
- The Phoenix, Nos. 279-286
- club papers and bits and pieces
- Le Wain's House of Used Magic - lists
- Magic Makers, March through June
- The Magnet
- The Joker
- The Barnstormer
- The Ledger, issue 8
- The Bat, Jr.
- MWCC Monthly, May & June
- Magicana
- Sorcar - advertising
- Top Hat Topics
- Questions and Answers
- Claims Houdini Relic - re: Dr. Maurice & Ernest Roscoe
- Merchandising Magic - Tommy Windsor
- Magic in Brazil - Jose A. Guerra (Roxy)
- So It's Laughs You Want! - Bob Brethen
- Master of Mirth for Magicians (Master of Ceremonies)
- Ventrivia
- re: Magic Circle Festival
- Magic on Chicago's Rialto - George Coon
- Jimmy Trimble Retires
- Magic Outdoors - L. E. Roba Collins
- Newmann Catalogue Ready Oct. 1
- re: Nevin Hoefert
- The Future Greats - Bill Pitts
- [Henry] Gordien Host to Magi
- Virgil Leaves Australia
- Suzy Wandas Really Files
- The "Tops" - Volume 18, Number 10 - October 1953 - 32 pages
- With the Editor - Mel
- Contents
- Double-Box Bowl Production - J. B. Maxwell
- Travelling Half-Dollars - The Amazing Maurice
- Zounds! What a Zippo! - Byrne L. Gokee (Byrne Perkins)
- Slow Motion Cards Vanish - De Macedo & Roxy
- The Mystery of the Penny Arcade - Roy Kissell
- Double Load Silk Casket - Eddie Turner
- Sleights Nouveau - Roxy
- Card Fans Production (Third Method)
- Continuous Production of a Coin and a Card
- Card Fans Production (Fourth Method)
- The French Drop with Cards
- Distant Telepathy - Pierre Renoff
- None-Such Production Box - Roxy
- Beg Your Pardon! - re: plagiarism by Jay Holtzapple in August issue
- Get-Together Enjoyed by 652 Magi - Suzy Wandas, Chang, Bill Neff, Outstanding Stars of Show - Demon Rembrandt
- He Was There and He Liked It - letter to Percy Abbott
- A Note of Appreciation - Percy Abbott
- Suzy on [Magic] Circle Show
- re: The Amazing Maurice
- Magical Card Finesse - Jerry Hornak
- Three Selections to Pocket
- Chosen card to Card Box
- Routine of Surprises
- Card Fantasy
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter
- books
- I'll Read Your Mind - Aage Darling
- Playing with Magic - Wilfred Tyler
- The Challenge Memory Test - Will Dexter
- Contact Mindreading - E. Edward Dexter
- Psycho series Nos. 6 & 7 - Teral Garrett
- The Working Comedian's Gag File - Robert Orben
- Superb Tricks - Adrian Smith
- Thimble Trix - Chester Dobski
- The Obedient Thimble - Chester Dobski
- re: "Star of India" film
- re: The British Puppet and Model Theatre Guild
- Merchandising Magic - Tommy Windsor
- Magic in Quebec - Monarch, Magician
- Magic on Chicago's Rialto - George Coon
- So It's Laughs You Want! - Bob Brethen
- Hysterical Historics - Marc Anthony and Cleopatra
- Cut Rope Patter
- Jokes or Croakes
- Don't Break the Chain
- Anecdote
- Do Not Stop on Bridge - Drive Off
- English Magi in 3-D Short - re: "It's a Mystery"
- Magic Outdoors - L. E. Roba Collins
- New Jersey Magicians Society - Blackwood (Robert Lynn)
- Wizard Club of Chicago - Clettis V. Musson
- For Vents Only - George McAthy
- Allan Shaw Dies
- Nearing 10,000 Performances - re: Herbert J. Collings (Col Ling Soo)
- The "Tops" - Volume 18, Number 11 - November 1953 - 32 pages
- With the Editor - Mel
- Contents
- Rainbow Ball Routine - James Reneaux
- Sleights Nouveau - Roxy
- Billiard Ball Color Change
- A Silk Routine - Roy Kissell
- None Such Rope Miracle - A Do-As-I-Do Routine - Roxy
- Funny Bunny Business - "Hen" Fetsch
- Buzz Bunny
- Puff Bunny
- Honking Hare
- On Royal Variety Show - re: Tommy Cooper
- Magical Card Finesse - Jerry Hornak
- Reading the Cards
- "Super" Card Reading
- An Easy Stab
- Magical Palms
- Four Selections Supreme
- A Fakir Does Tricks
- Change O' Cards Extraordinary - Kardany & Roxy
- On the Rialto in Chicago - George Coon
- Vanishing Boy and Auto
- re: Les Levante
- Card to Cigarette - De Macedo & Roxy
- Wizard Club of Chicago - Clettis V. Musson
- New Jersey Magicians Society - Blackwood (Robert Lynn)
- Blindfold Drive Startles Indiana Shoppers - re: Wayne Shumway
- re: Savoir, Le Mystificateur Silent
- The Celtic Magical Conclave
- The Magic Circle on TV
- Chicago Magigals - Jerrie-Ann Musson
- re: Blackwood the Magician
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter
- Looking over the new books and magazines
- MC Bits - Robert Orben
- Card Miracles - Toni Koyini
- Mohammed Bey's Routine with the Okito Coin Box
- Now for the magazines
- The Wizard, March thru June
- Genii, August
- Modern Magi, September & October
- Abracadabra, Nos. 390-400
- M-U-M, August & September
- The Gen, August & September
- Hugard's Magic Monthly, August & September
- The Phoenix, Nos. 287-290
- Pentagram, July & August
- The Magnet, July & August
- Now to look over the club papers and ad-sheets
- Barnstormer, September & October
- Magic Makers, July, August & Spetember
- The Spooks Speak
- The Joker, Vol. 3, No. 1
- Corsair, Nos. 74-76
- MWCC Monthly, July-August-September
- Miracles - ad-sheets
- The Magic Wand Publishing Co. - folder
- Edgar Heyl - lists
- George Jenness - list 537
- Top Hat Topics
- Magic Circle's Grand Festival - Wilford Hutchinson
- Merchandising Magic - Tommy Windsor
- Magi Entertain at Sanatorium
- So It's Laughs You Want! - Bob Brethen
- Jems of Jest
- A Timely Subject
- The Chinese Are Peculiar
- India ... Holy Cow!
- Gold Diggers
- Mexico
- Washington, D.C.
- Africa
- Italy
- For Vents Only - George McAthy
- Routine from a Punch Line
- Magic Outdoors - L. E. Roba Collins
- The Future Greats - Bill Pitts
- Dr. J. F. Lewis Dies
- Charles S. Weller Dies
- Caro G. (Cig) Miller Dies
- Name Magi Visit Abbott's - re: Bill Neff and Evelyn, Bill Talent, Cardini and Swan & Buddy Hughes
- The "Tops" - Volume 18, Number 12 - December 1953 - 32 pages
- With the Editor - Mel
- Contents
- Magical Card Finesse - Jerry Hornak
- Three Card Rise
- Impromptu Rising Cards Presentation
- An Apparent Impossibility
- Lost Card Control
- Just A Chance - Bank Night - Roxy
- re: visitors to Abbotts: Nevin and Helen Howfert, Bob Lewis and wife, Ken Booth & Binney
- Novel Coin Production - Alexander
- Sleights Nouveau - Roxy
- Slow Motion Card Vanish
- Card Fans in Hat
- For Cigarette Production
- Two Balls Vanish
- A Subtle Vanish of a Ball
- re: no definite plans for a Get-Together
- To Be ... Or Not to Be - Roxy
- Clippo Presentation - Arthur Hastings
- Nu Color Card Change - Roxy
- The Spirit Handcuffs - From the Tales of Achmed
- Magic on Chicago's Rialto - George Coon
- re: Rev. Martin Elz
- Merchandising Magic - Tommy Windsor
- Wizard Club of Chicago - Clettis V. Musson
- Chicago Magigals - Jerrie-Ann Musson
- New Jersey Magicians' Society - Blackwood (Robert Lynn)
- re: Aaron (Doc) Weiss
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter
- reviews
- M. C. Bits - Robert Orben
- Universal Mind - Ron Baillie
- Automentalism - Ken de Courcy
- Encyclopedia of Silk Magic, Volume 2 - Harold Rice
- The First Book of Magic - Edward Stoddard
- Questions and Answers
- Magi Can't Find the Gimmick - re: Rabotine
- For Vents Only - George McAthy
- Shows Trick to Jury - re: Robert Sharpe
- re: Wayne Shumway
- So It's Laughs You Want! - Bob Brethen
- Perplexing Proverbs
- Answers to Perplexing Proverbs
- Ventrivia
- Cockroach Business
- Gum Chewing
- Collector Adds Durbin Relics - re: David Price
- Tops as Drum Major - re: Victor Hugo Walton
- Abbott's 1954 Magic Get-Together
- Magic Outdoors - L. E. Roba Collins
- The Future Greats - Bill Pitts
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