Description
Effect: (From the introduction to Vol.1): My previous major publishing venture was Mortimer’s Magic Magazine. This was a series of 13 spiral-bound publications, averaging 50 pages each and put out quarterly. Magician’s Home Companion is using Mortimer’s, with its excellent contributors, as the base on which to build. That probably makes us the “newest old publication” in magic. I grew tired of publishing Mortimer’s in that format and decided to try for something bigger and better. This book is the result. Is it difficult trying to develop a new magic book and then fill it with over 100 pages of worthwhile magic copy? The following illustration fairly well sums up what the feeling is like.
Mortimer’s Magic Magazine began with the purpose of presenting new routines, ideas, and patter for the magician who wanted to add it to his stage show, do it at a magic meeting, or simply amaze his friends without having to spend years practicing. As time went on, Close-Up magic did make its way into Mortimer’s because that is what many magicians were contributing. That was fine because it gave a balance to the magic being presented.
Magician’s Home Companion will try to follow the same goals which made Mortimer’s popular and successful. The emphasis will be on magic that can be done with a minimum of sleights and those will be the ones that most magicians know or should know. Hopefully, stage props can be dusted off and used again to entertain once you see what else can be done with them. You won’t even have to put away your Close-Up magic tricks because I’m sure there will still be many of them. So our goal can be summed up as: providing you with practical and useful inform^ tion about magic. Perhaps it’s not as noble as saving mankind, but at least it is one the Magician s Home Companion can achieve.
Magician’s Home Companion is a good title because it represents the folksy, “down-home” type of publication which was the goal of Mortimer’s. This is the same approach that this series of books will take. The goal of Mortimer’s and now Magician’s Home Companion is to be your “magic companion.” We’ll give advice and tips on just about anything magical, but it won’t be coming down from Mount Olympus engraved on tablets of concrete. This publication will be written as if you were sitting with us and we’re talking with you, not just at you.
Contents
Title Page 1
Table Of Contents 2
Editorial 4
Halloween Letters Jim Klein 6
Hanko John Fedko 7
Now It Is Jim Schuyler 8
Dusheck On Magic – Part 2 Steve Dusheck 9
Upside Down George Oran Dent 13
Magic Advertising – Part 2 Jim Klein 15
Eknarfs Changing Card Harry Franke 17
Bead Trick – A Review 18
Booking The Trade Shows – Part 2 Martini 19
Rubber Band Ring Penetration Follow-Up Daniel Racine 25
Dime Penny Nickel Cap Dan Tong 26
Choose One From Column A – Part 2 Carol Bender 27
The Monster Swap Larry White 33
Old Time Magic Silliness 34
Experimental Joe Curcillo 35
One Card & Stealing Sheep Marko 36
Blow Them Away 36
Professor Gabriel’s Magical Medicine Show Jim Klein 37
Topover Bill Rheam 42
Ghost Image Giveaways Ron Dayton 43
The Perverse Egg Bag Gerald Deutsch 45
Homemade Rainbow Blendo & Film Can Harry Damareck 46
The Magic Of Selling – Part 2 Jim Klein 47
My Pet Deck Bill Pryor 49
Stiff Rope Paul Diamond 50
Magic Signs & Stuff Jim Klein 51
Magical Thoughts, Tips, Routines & Humor – Part 4 Winton Carroll 56
Do Magic? Get A Computer Jim Kleefeld 57
Magic Diploma & Diet Workshop 62
A Review Of Tenyo And Parabox Jim Klein 63
Money Replicator 64
Rubber Chicken Section 65
The Rubber Chicken Wylee Packer 66
New Chicken Material 73
More Chicken Ideas Ron Dayton 74
Any Bird Production Jim Klein 75
“Bright” Ideas 78
Magic Giveaways And Restaurant Promotion Richard Paddon 79
Make Your Hot Rod Hot Jim Kleefeld 81
Hare Loss Jim Klein 83
A Four Ace Trick That’s Not Really A Four Ace Trick Tom Craven 84
It’s Times Like These… Richard Paddon 85
Message Silk Ideas And Additional Tips Paul Diamond 90
Two Ideas John Moran 92
Top Hat Surprise, Trash Bag, Organization, & Giveaways Joe Curcillo 93
Fire Safety Magic Tim Royer 94
Magic Publicity – Part 2 Jim Klein 95
“I Have A Note For You” Oran Dent 97
“Two These” Bill Rheam 98
The Last Monte – A Review 98
Story Time Ed Hazell 99
Magic Creativity – Part 2 Jim Klein 101
Several Trashy Ideas Jesse Langston, Jr. 106
Earning More Magic Clients – Part 1 Jim Klein 107
Bill Antics Dan Tong 108
Kiddie Patter & little feats – Book Review 110
Comb & Mirror 110
E S P By Design Harry Franke 111
Card Magician’s Anguish 113
Party Trick Favors Jim Klein 114
Jumping Gems Steve Dusheck 115
Two Magic Shop Stories Jim Klein 118
Blankety – Blank Ed Forsythe 120
Dust Off Your Milk Pitcher Ollie Spahr 120
Magic Creativity – Part 3 Ron Dayton 121
Could This Be Horace Goldin’s Force? Marko 125
You Shuffled Them Where Tom Craven 128
Maximum Head Room Dale Price 129
ABC Cups John Fedko 131
Silk Duggery Ed Forsythe 132
Magic Marketing – Part 2 Jim Klein 133
Credit Slasher – A Review 135
Cartoon Creativity – Snow People Jim Klein 136
Doc’s Diversities Doc Dougherty 138
Super “52 On 1” Card — A Review 142
Find The Animals Bill Pryor 143
Printing Ink On Paper Visibility 144
A Sock Card Effect Gerald Deutsch 145
How Much? Tim Royer 145
Sleeping Pill – A Review 146
Magical Thoughts, Tips, Routines, & Humor – Part 5 Winton Carroll 147
How Houdini Did It Larry White 148
Big Magic On A Small Budget – The $10.00 Levitation Daniel Racine 149
Mortimer The Magician Cartoon Dawn Gribb/Jim Klein 154
Index 155
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