January 1957 - December 1957
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor
93 pages - 3 Issues
- The "Tops" - Volume 22, Number 1 - January 1957 - 32 pages
- With the Editor - Percy Abbott
- Contents
- Reversed Six card Repeat (111) - Simplified Method - Roxy
- Report On Chicago Magigals Assembly No. 9 - Sylvia Smith
- re: The Great Levante
- Dramatic Living and Dead Test
- Thimbles, Thimbles - Again and Again - Roxy
- re: Monk Watson
- Ring-String - Ray Hutchinson
- re: Chami Kkan
- Amazing Card Miracles - Mahendra, The Mystic (F. B. Sterling)
- Design for Wrist Watch Gimmic
- Directions for Using the Wrist Watch Calculator for Prearranged Deck
- Preface
- The Arrangement
- Mechanics of the Arrangement
- To Openly Arrange a Strange Deck
- False Shuffles
- The "Perfect" False Shuffle
- Abbott's Funny Rubber Hand
- Feather Bouquets - Suggested Methods of Production - Abbott
- Double Touch Card Prediction - Curry
- Effects With Standard Spirit Slates - Abbott
- Upon Opening You Find ... - Kobold
- Six Card Rabbit Repeat - Jesse F. James
- Abbott's Cups and Balls Routine
- Silk and Plate - Abbott
- For Vents Only - George McAthy
- Dialogue - Billy Joe Boley
- re: Danny O'Day
- Liquid Utility Glass - Abbott
- An Amazing "Four Ace" Effect
- New York Magi-Chat - Tony Corrao
- Merchandising Magic - Tommy Windsor
- re: Neil Foster & Jeanne
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter
- reviews
- You Too, Can Be A Hypnotist (originally Vaudeville Hypnotism) - David J. Lustig
- Fifteen Star Card Effects - Lu Brent
- Phantini's Mental Key
- routine for the floating Cane - R. C. Buff
- list of publications
- Abracadabra
- Genii, The Conjurors' Magazine
- The Gen
- Hugard's Magic Monthly
- The Magic Wand
- The Magical Digest
- The Pentagram
- IBIDEM
- The New Phoenix
- The Linking Ring
- M-U-M
- Tops
- The Magnet
- Hughes News
- Club Papers and Dealer's Journals
- Mental-Wise
- Allen's Attic
- Lines from Lawton
- The Silent Messenger
- Magic Makers
- Houdini-Gram
- The Barnstormer
- Backstage with Magigals
- Sorcery
- The Oracle
- The Missing Link
- Top Hat Topics
- Magic News from England - Wilford Hutchinson
- It's Magic in California - Mariano Palhinha
- Magic Outdoors - L. E. Roba Collins
- Card Force
- The "Tops" - Volume 22, Number 2 - February 1957 - 32 pages
- With the Editor - Mel
- Contents
- Spectacular - Arthur Andrews
- A Flowery Fantasy - Roxy
- One for the Record - Kobold
- Patter for "Stung" - Monte Sweigard
- Pocketed! - Card to Pocket - Roxy
- re: Jim Reneaux
- A Comedy Opening - Marshall Murdaugh
- Excel Second Sight Act
- "All Fair" Card Trick - Frank Shepherd
- Color Changing Thimble - Roxy
- Amazing Card Miracles - Mahendra, The Mystic (F. B. Sterling) - continued
- Hugh Johnson False Shuffle
- False Cuts
- The Jordan False Cut
- The Lightning Card Counter
- Table of Short Cuts
- Patter for Counting Cards
- Torn Card Trick
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter
- Questions and Answers - mixed in with the reviews
- Backstage with Magigals, September to December
- 2-Way Plastic Pitcher - Richard Durham
- Abbott's Bunny Hat
- Abracadabra, Nos. 551-567
- comments re: Who's Who in Magic
- Garcia's Manipulative Series - G & G Enterprises (Sol Goodnoff & Frank Garcia)
- Garcia's Manipulative Secrets
- Million Dollar Slow Motion Card Productions
- Challenge Card Production
- Garcia's Close-Up Gem - G & G Enterprises
- Double or Nothing - G & G Enterprises
- Houdini-Gram
- The Magnet
- The Magic Wand, June
- George Jenness - book list
- Axel Rasmussen - book list
- Top Hat Topics
- Teral Garrett - book list
- Pentagram
- The Awards for 1956 Tricks
- re: 18th anniversary of the Circulo Magico Argentino
- Merchandising Magic - Tommy Windsor
- New York Magi Chat - Tony Corrao
- About Tops Mailing
- Magic Outdoors - L. E. Roba Collins
- Magic Notes from England - Wilford Hutchinson
- re: W. S. Berger
- Not Magic - But Lettering - Demon Rembrandt
- Magic in California - Mariano Palhinha
- Birds Not Bird-Brained - Kodell
- The "Tops" - Volume 22, Number 3 - March 1957 - 28 pages
- With the Editor - Mel
- Contents
- Disintegration - A 3-D Card Effect - Roxy
- Incomparable - Arthur J. Andrews
- Routined Ball Sleights - Roxy
- Amazing Card Miracles - Mahendra, The Mystic (F. B. Sterling) - continued
- The Human Scales
- The Strange Powers of the Joker
- Patter Routine Number Two
- Another Presentation
- The Phantom Card Game
- Publicity for Magicians - Robert E. Berhard
- Foreword - Ormond McGill
- Preface
- What Is Publicity?
- Registrations Coming In - re: Get-Together
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter
- Questions and Answers - mixed in with the reviews
- The Book of Dai Vernon - Lewis Ganson
- Rotating Pencil - Bernard Blake
- Guillo Cards - Irv Weiner
- Flash-Gig-O-Silk - Senor Torino
- Barnstormer
- The Gimmick
- Lines from Lawton No. 21
- The Missing Link
- Ken Allen - lists and Attics(?)
- The DeVoe Magic Den - memo/list
- Magic Makers
- Mental-Wise
- Top Secrets of Magic - J. G. Thompson, Jr.
- Hugard's Magic Monthly
- Hughes News
- IBIDEM, No. 8
- The Gen
- New York Magi-Chat - Tony Corrao
- re: George Gamaway
- For Vents Only - George McAthy
- Merchandising Magic - Tommy Windsor
- Plans Super TV Magic Show - Milbourne Christopher
- Wonderfully Effective Trick - re: Invisible Blowing and Dyeing Silks & Ray Beffel
- Magic Outdoors - L. E. Roba Collins
- Chicago Magigals Install - Esther Krasny
- [Elmer] Eckham Suffers Fire Loss
- Andrell Henry Now Heads IGP - Augusta Gottlieb - re: International Guild of Prestidigitators
- Magic in California - Mariano Palhinha
- Magic News from England - Wilford Hutchinson
- Bill Schreiber Dies
- Carl [Waring] Jones Dies
word count: 63762 which is equivalent to 255 standard pages of text