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Friday, May 1, 2020

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Thursday, February 14, 2019

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The Sphinx the long established independent journal of the magical arts that ran from March 1902 to March 1953.

First issue by A. M. Wilson

It started in Chicago, Illinois by William Hilliar and moved to Missouri in 1904 when the Kansas City physician, Dr. A. M. Wilson, took over as editor (Vol. 3 No. 8). The number of pages per issue varied from twelve to fifty or more.

1938 issue

In 1906, Houdini started his own magazine partly in an effort to disparage and destroy The Sphinx, but the Conjurers' Monthly Magazine went out of business after only two years.

The 28 years of Dr. Wilson's ownership, the magazine covered one of golden ages of magic. Vaudeville was at it's height, bringing a variety magicians from all over the world to the larger cities of North America.

With Volume 1 Number 9, "The Sphinx" became the western organ of the Society of American Magicians and starting with Volume 8, it become the official organ of the Society of American Magicians.

Dr. Wilson died in April of 1930. William Larsen, who had idolized the doctor, had entertained hopes of taking over The Sphinx. Instead, that honor went to John Mulholland of New York. Mulholland established The Sphinx Publishing Corporation in New York City to assume the liability of producing the The Sphinx magazine around 1930.

Annemann attempts to buy the Sphinx in 1938 can be seen in his Jinx magazine (No. 95, No. 114, and No. 115).

Some of the many contributors over the years were: Ted Annemann, Al Baker, Fred Braue, Milbourne Christopher, Joseph Dunninger, Ade Duval, Karrell Fox, Robert Harbin, Guy Jarrett, Dr. Stanley Jaks, Ed Marlo, John Scarne and Harlan Tarbell.

A complete set would contain 52 volumes, 597 issues, and almost 17,000 pages.

Another magazine about the same timeframe and longevity, but published in the UK was the Magic Wand.

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Ton Onosaka Magic Land Original Issue 2000 Collectible Asian Magic

Awards and honors

Award of Merit from the Academy of Magical Arts (1984)
Special Fellowship of the Academy of Magical Arts (1994)
Award of Japanese Professional Magicians Association (1996)
Guest of Honor at FFFF (2007)
Guest of Honor at 31 Faces North (2008)

Bibliography

A Bicycle Built for Five
As illustrator:

References

↑ Genii 1994 July (cover)
↑ The Linking Ring, Vol. 77, No. 1, January 1997, THE ART OF DECEPTION, by Chuck Romano, page 67
↑ http://essentialmagicconference.com/users/ton-onosaka

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Monday, February 11, 2019

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Vintage Thayer THE MAGIC BULLETIN O. Justiniani Issue 1925

Product Description

The Magic Bulletin devoted to the interests of more and better Magic.

Thayer's Magical Bulletin
Thayer's Magical Bulletin

First issue January, 1914
Final issue May, 1925
Thayer's Magical Bulletin was a Magic Periodical by Floyd Thayer and Louis Christianer in Los Angeles, California that ran from Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1914 thru Vol. 12, No. 7, May 1925.

The magazine was issued as a "house organ of the Magic Shop of the West" and was originally sent free of charge. It was also for a time, the official organ of the Pacific Coast Society of Magicians (Vol. 01 No. 03 until Vol 2. No. 3).

Volumes I and II only had six issues only. Volumes III on had twelve issues.

Some twenty-three years later, William W. Larsen, Sr., then owner of Thayer's, revived the Magical Bulletin for two more issues: Vol. 13, No. 1 (June, 1948) and Vol. 13, No. 2 (Fall, 1948).

Notes: Volume three, number seven (July, 1915) is wrongly numbered eight.[1]