_EF Design & Composition by Andrew Pinard. In 1990 Jim Sisti began “The Magic Menu”, a magazine geared for the restaurant and bar performer. Each issue included tips, stories, product reviews, and effects all oriented toward restaurant, bar, and strolling magic. This type of magic must pack small, easily reset, and often play for family …
_EF Richard’s Almanac was acclaimed as one of the finest newsletters ever devoted to close-up magic. Its publication from 1982 to 1987 was a highlight in the history of close-up magic periodicals. And now, all four hundred pages of the original newsletter, containing tricks from the greatest close-up magicians of our time, have been reprinted …
_EF The Card to Wallet effect is one of the strongest possible close-up effects with cards. Properly performed, it is incomprehensible to spectators. Ungimmicked wallets are featured in one large chapter of the book. Other chapters are devoted to many of the fine gimmicked wallets available including Himber Wallet, Mullica Wallet and LePaul Wallet. Methods …
_EF This manuscript explains several variations of one incredible prediction effect. Every variation produces the same result, but along the way there is gambling, mentalism, and more than a few hustles. Here’s what others have said: “For the past couple of months, one of the questions my friends in magic have been asking me is, …
_EF Continuing on in the great tradition of The Jinx, The New Jinx was a tribute to the thinking of Ted Annemann. Monthly periodical for stage mentalists and magicians that ran from May 1962 to April 1968 for 72 issues. Bill Madsen used the pen-name “Arlecchino” as the editor (information from Genii’s Magicpedia). The entire …
_EF Time Magazine has called Derek Dingle “…the greatest card manipulator extant,” and from his television appearances with Tom Snyder, Dick Cavett, Barbara Walters, and Mike Douglas to his many contributions to Genii, Apocalypse, The Pallbearer’s Review, Epilogue, and Innovations he has consistently proven Time to be correct. Contents (From book ToC, updated May 2017): vii …
_EF It is a naive magician or mentalist who leaves home without his flip-over wallet. When Ed Mellon first saw Himber’s Bill Fooled, he called it “The Perfect Utility Piece of 1001 Uses.” But most important, Ed said that the wallet did not look like a gimmick. Here is an item that is normally carried …
_EF With CARDWORKS, Richard Kaufman returns to the same innovative area that made CardMagic a bestseller in 1979. Clearly written and beautifully illustrated, CARDWORKS contains many wonderful routines that you’ll find as enjoyable to perform as the audience will to watch. While most of the material has been created by the author, there are contributions …
_EF Richard Himber was a controversial Orchestra Leader and Magician with a weird sense of humor and outlandish practical jokes! He was best known for his outpouring of original Magic effects that were profusely illustrated and advertised in the Magic Publications. This is a compilation of those advertised Magic Tricks, with an explanation of how …
The Magic Magazine was a mass market monthly magic publication that was started by New York publisher Joseph Kardwell in 1974. There were 26 issues published with the first in December 1974 and the final one in September 1977. The magazine dealt with it’s fair share of publication issues and had four different publishers during …
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