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The Official publication
of the I.B.M. Ring 40, known as the “Drinking Ring” of Winnipeg, Canada, in association
with The Rounders Of The Night Table.
The material within 'some'
of these
issues are, shall we say: Xrated, fifthly, dirty, raunchy, grotesque,
In other words, in GREAT
DEMAND by those magazine collectors out there in CollectorLand.
Don’t get me wrong,
there is a occasional good article and magic trick to shock your neighbors with.
As Sid Lorraine put it in
the New TOPSs February 1971 issue:
“Just saw my first couple copies of CHAOS,
the official journal of Winnipeg’s Ring 40 Magic Club...known as The Drinking
Ring. This bunch of western souserers, from all reports, whoop it up plenty at
their meetings and a lot of good magic is washed down with suds. Their magazine
is the zaniest I’ve seen and among the wild nutty notes one can actually find
a lot of good magic. It is refreshing to find a group that do not take
themselves too seriously, but have fun. Unfortunately, you can’t subscribe to
this publication, it is for club members only.”
Later on they would sell
subscriptions, but this would explain why you don’t see too many of the early
issues offered. For the most part, the issues have to come from a collection of
a member or contributor from back in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Some issues came with
Supplements, some didn't. - $25.00(each)
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#18 - November 1970 - Ring
40 Silver Anniversary Issue - 22pages
Supplements:
(1) Silver
Plated Toilet Paper. (2) Reproduction of 1st Printed Playing Card
Some of the contents
within include: 25 Years by Mel Stover - An Epic Steel Engraving - Ring 444 1/4
Phony Falls Pesky Prestidigitators Celebrate Big Silver Anniversary, A Special
Report by Foundly D.T. Crunchkite - The Poetic Corner presents “Luigi At The
Bar” - Ring 40 Horosquare by Pros. Revoltsem - A Taste of Money, A close up
coin routine by Gene Shelley - Rouvan’s Silk Production by Terry K. Greenwood
- Challenges, Games, Gags and Puzzles with Money, Glasses, Bottles and Booze
#22 - no stated date -
5pages.
Supplement:
Reveen
Advertising/Flyer
Some of the contents
within include: Message From The President - This Issues Bonus - From The Rear -
Backstage - Next Meeting - To Whom It May Concern (a letter from Jim McFeetors)
- On Stage - From The Rotunda - Drinking Ring Cocktail Recipe - Chilblain
Mystifier Says.. - Unpaid Advertising Department - Hypnotism By Radio by
Abbott’s.
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#23 - August 1971 -
9pages.
Supplement:
Wonderful
World of Magic Advertisement
Some of the contents
within include: On Stage - Back Stage - This Month’s Bonus Feature -
Advertisement - Our Next Magic Lecture - A New Twist On Miko by Terry Greenwood
(Rouvan) - This is Nion, Nion, Nion, Please Hold The Lion - Winnipeg Tribune
Spotlight, Monday, June 28, 1971 article: “Odds are against you but all’s
above board” by Terry Roberts (Tribune Investigative Reporter) - Magicana
Canadiana - The Conjurer’s Revenge by Stephen Leacock.
Couple issues have a Gold
Sticker: “1971 Magicians’ Society of Winnipeg” c023w-c023a
Only one issue has the
sticker and the Frances Marshall 40 Year Get Together Flyer.
Some of the contents
within include: This Month’s Bonus’ - Backtrack - Backdated - Corked,
Cracked Corner - Letter Department - Further Note - Childlain Mystifier Says: -
The Record Scene - Etcetera (sometimes called filler) - Turn-A-Bout by Martin A.
Nash - Shoddy Magic Company Clearance, Sale of the Century - Beadless Abacus by
Mel Stover - Magicana Canadiana - A Model Dialogue by Stephen Leacock
#26 - February 1972 -
9pages.
Supplements: (1) Butterfly
Ink Blot. (2) “You Are Out Of Cards” Sticker
Some of the contents
within include: In One - This Month’s Bonus - News From A Broad - Out Front -
Your Are Out Of Cards by Bud Dietrich and Dick Jarrow - Adv. Sheet for all the
magic tricks you can order directly from Sid Lorraine - The Inaugural Meeting of
the Winnipeg Magician’s Society 1972 at Betsy’s Indonesian Hash House on
January Sixth, tricky quiz contest for tricky trixters - Back Stage - The Poetic
Corner - Magic Words
All Covers came hand
colored.
#27 - June 1972 - 16pages.
Supplements: (1)
Earthquake McCoon’s Handbill. (2) 1972 Drinking Ring Membership List. (3) PCAM
Int. Stars of Magic Program Sheet.
Some of the contents
within include: In One - This Issue’s Bonus - Out Front - Note To All Members
- Definitive Corner - Magic Words - Creates Happiness Among Our Subscribers -
1972 Drinking Ring Membership, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - The Latest Optical
Illusion (Xrated Cartoon) - Advertising plug for Frank Garcia’s “Million
Dollar Card Secrets” - Full (Micky Hades) advertising page for Garcia’s book
- Curing Stage Fright by Don Comstock - Two page letter to “The Winnipeg
Drinking Ring” from Elliott and Mel in Honolulu, July 6th, 1972 - The Waikiki
Wizard issues #s 1 thru 4
#29 - December 1972 -
11pages - Stated number on the Cover is #28, but inside it’s shown as its real
number of 29.
Supplements include:
(1)
Albert Goshman Sunkist Advertisement. (2) 9 out of 10 Women Card. (3) Know Your
Limit calendar/card.
Some of the contents
within include: Footsies Look At Entertainment Around The World - Albert Goshman
letter to the Editor (Gene Shelly) - Find The Lady (Stag Version) an in depth
stud dy by Billy McComb, Mel Stover, Wilfrid Johnson - Three Card Monte - For
Gentlemen Only by Wilfrid Johnson - Limerics - Notice To All Members.
Some Covers issued with an
image or two hand colored and some without any coloration.
#30a
- April 1973 -
19pages.
No Supplements issued this
month.
Some of the contents
within include: Your Presidential (Gene Shelly) Dart Board - Back To The Bible -
The Adventures of the Linking Rings - Yorkshire Lad - Entertaining Tiny Tots -
Belches From The Ring - By Their Fruits ye Shall Know Them - Orgyami - Magic
Words - D.T. Sourmash Looks Into Pandora’s Box, A Review - Poetic Corner -
Pandora’s Box Nr. 1 - The Great Fiasco.
#30b - April 1973 -
19pages.
No Supplements issued this
month.
Some of the contents
within include: Your Presidential (Gene Shelly) Dart Board - Back To The Bible -
The Adventures of the Linking Rings - Yorkshire Lad - Entertaining Tiny Tots -
Belches From The Ring - By Their Fruits ye Shall Know Them - Orgyami - Magic
Words - D.T. Sourmash Looks Into Pandora’s Box, A Review - Poetic Corner -
Pandora’s Box Nr. 1 - The Great Fiasco.
Some Covers issued with an
image or two hand colored and some without any coloration.
#33 - July 1974 - 23pages.
Supplements:
(1) #1 &
#2 Chaos Tarot Cards. (2) 1 WHWM Member Card. (3) Houdini Elongated Dollar. (4) Kuethe Elongated
Dollar. (5) Disappearing Dangler. (6) Winnipeg Home for Wayward Magicians.
Some of the contents
within include: Backstage - On Stage - Notice - Special Bonuses - The Adventures
of The Linking Rings - Department of National Revenue Letter re ‘pecker tax’
- Pandora’s Box Nr. 4 - An Open Letter to CHAOS by Bruce Dunn - Letter to Dave
Strhong by A. Gnome - CHAOS Retracts! (same cartoon as last month of Jay
Marshall, except now the head now had a covered hood, so you can’t see who it
is) - An In Depth Study On The History Of The Magic Wand by E. Gapp - Blow Up
Your Shakespeare - Milton Kort’s Invisible Okito Coin Box - CHAOS Guide To
Palmistry - Mutterings From Minch by Stephen Minch - The Nonpareil Disappearing
Bellybutton Trick - Party Line - The Crippled Waiter - The World of The Linking
Rings, as seen by Fagot - Letter to D.T. Sourmash from Robert Lund - The
“No-Shit” Levitation by Fagan Jnr. - The Mystery of the Disappearing
Dangler, on the back Cover (ready to cut out and perform)
#34a - October 1974 -
15pages
Supplements include:
(1)
Set of two “Porno Stamps”. (2) Gimmick for “Think of a Word”. Can’t
show due to ‘cuss words’. (3) Two “Chaos Calling Cards” (Bruce Dunn and
Robert Reed). (4) Numbers 3, 4, and 1 un-Numbered “Chaos Tarot Cards”.
Some of the contents
within include: Chaos Cutouts (dress your Jasper doll) - An In Depth Study of
the History of the Magic Wand by E. Gapp - Pandora’s Box Nr. 5 - Martin
Gardner’s Great Think-Of-A-Four-Letter-Word Mystery - More Mutterings From
Minch by Stephen Minch - The Great Rajah Rabid’s Master One-Man Spirit Seance
Routine - Important Dates in History.
#34b - October 1974 -
15pages
Supplements include:
(1)
Set of two “Porno Stamps”. (2) Gimmick for “Think of a Word”. Can’t
show due to ‘cuss words’. (3) Two “Chaos Calling Cards” (Bruce Dunn and
Robert Reed). (4) Numbers 3, 4, and 1 un-Numbered “Chaos Tarot Cards”.
Some of the contents
within include: Chaos Cutouts (dress your Jasper doll) - An In Depth Study of
the History of the Magic Wand by E. Gapp - Pandora’s Box Nr. 5 - Martin
Gardner’s Great Think-Of-A-Four-Letter-Word Mystery - More Mutterings From
Minch by Stephen Minch - The Great Rajah Rabid’s Master One-Man Spirit Seance
Routine - Important Dates in History.
Two different covers. One
with a textured white cover and the other with a smooth vanilla cover.
One of the Tarot Cards
hand colored in some of the issues, not all.
#35a - March 1975 -
20pages.
Supplements:
(1) Reveen
Advertisements (two) - (2) Special Souvenir Stamps (three). - (3) Admission
Ticket, Souvenir Bill. - (4) Sowers of Seed Pocketbook. (5) F**K You Card In
Envelope Trick. - (6) #5,#6 & #7 Chaos Tarot Cards.
Some of the contents
within include: On Stage With The Drinking Ring - From The Rotunda - Bonus
Section - Many Thanks To - The Adventures of The Linking Rings - Bob Read’s
Stag Gag - Crandall’s Version - Professor Revotslem’s Colorful Card
Prediction - Pandora’s Box Nr. 6 - Tom Bowyer’s Coin In The Bottle - A
Couple of Xrated Cartoons - New Feature: Amuck, The Beast of Chaos - Dave
Strong’s Knee Plus Ultra Pretty Damn Good Pecan Miracle Subtelty Routine -
Marshall Evening Chronicle, Friday, March 8, 1974 article: “Museum of magic
planned” - Letter to Mr. Sourmash from Robert Lund (American Museum of Magic)
- The World of The Linking Rings..with Sis and Junior, as seen by Fagot - The
Burlingame Sage, Part 4 by Stephen Minch - Burlingame’s Challenge Card
Location - Elephant Cartoon.
#35b
- March 1975 -
20pages.
Supplements:
(1) Reveen
Advertisements (two) - (2) Special Souvenir Stamps (three). - (3) Admission
Ticket, Souvenir Bill. - (4) Sowers of Seed Pocketbook. (5) F**K You Card In
Envelope Trick. - (6) #5,#6 & #7 Chaos Tarot Cards.
Some of the contents
within include: On Stage With The Drinking Ring - From The Rotunda - Bonus
Section - Many Thanks To - The Adventures of The Linking Rings - Bob Read’s
Stag Gag - Crandall’s Version - Professor Revotslem’s Colorful Card
Prediction - Pandora’s Box Nr. 6 - Tom Bowyer’s Coin In The Bottle - A
Couple of Xrated Cartoons - New Feature: Amuck, The Beast of Chaos - Dave
Strong’s Knee Plus Ultra Pretty Damn Good Pecan Miracle Subtelty Routine -
Marshall Evening Chronicle, Friday, March 8, 1974 article: “Museum of magic
planned” - Letter to Mr. Sourmash from Robert Lund (American Museum of Magic)
- The World of The Linking Rings..with Sis and Junior, as seen by Fagot - The
Burlingame Sage, Part 4 by Stephen Minch - Burlingame’s Challenge Card
Location - Elephant Cartoon.
Issued with some of the Tarot Card hand
colored, some Tarot Cards not hand colored.
#36 - August 1975 thru
March 1976 - 14pages -
Last Issue!!
Supplement:
Set of 4
Miniature Stamps In A Glassine Envelope.
Some of the contents
within include: Magic Books & Tricks sales page with titles and effects
you’ll find no where else except here in CHAOS - Pandora’s Box Nr. 7 - One
Man Levitation, the remarkable magical inventions of E.Gapp - Letter to LundDunn
of Marshall, Michigan from Fifi’s Massage Parlor - Letter from Bruce Dunn to
Mr. Sourmash - The Adventures of The Linking Rings, “The Last Tangle in
Paris” - Mutterings From Minch by Stephen Minch - Burlingame’s Last Legacy
To The Conjuring Fraternity: Magical Codpieces. Edited by Stephen Minch (A: The
Phallic Pull. B: The Hyponotic Cod. C: The Servante Cod. D: The Cod Holdout. E:
The Zombie Cod. F: The Mentalist Cod. G: The Patriotic Cod) - New And Old Tricks
(another sales page with Tricks you’ll find no where else except here in
CHAOS)
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