2539-5432) KRYPTs QUARTERLY CRIER

Published quarterly by David E. Zver in Bethlehem, PA.

Magazines measure approx. 8 1/2"x11"

This offering includes 16 issues:

V2N1(1992) - V2N2(1992) - V2N3(1992) - V2N4(1993)
V3N1(1993) - V3N2(1993) - V3N3(1993) - V3N4(1994)
V4N1(1994) - V4N2(1994) - V4N3(1994) - V4N4(1995)
V5N1(1995) - V5N3(1995) - V5N4(1996)
V6N1 - no year given

Some of the articles/effects include:

Bruce Barnett: Around A Fire Bright

Loth Christian: Dracula's Return - The Hand of Glory - Special Killer's Inn - Cat

Pascal de Clermont: Psy-Phone - Pyramidal Prediction

Kate-Anne Gedicke: Palms Up! - In A Mirror Dark - Confessions of a Lazy Mage

Bob Gillard: Time of Death

Sabastian N. Krypt: The Cleansing - The Manitou - In The Darkness, What Waits? - Natural Magick - Anti-Reality - Cleansing Flame, Healing Flame - Fire Fly - Bad Man's Hand - Puppet Theatre Guignol - The Most Dangerous Game - Water Witching Off The Cuff - Rings Of Power

Joe Lantiere: The I-Mage of Bizarre Magicians - The Magicians Wand

Ed Loveland: The Myan Spirits of Teotihuacan - Coffin Nails Plus - Spooked Horse

Jim Magus: High Tech Bizarre. Electric Voodoo - Dust 'N' Bones - Haunted Diskette

Larry Meaux: Bits and Pieces

C.S. Miller: Deluxe Drawer Box

Cris Peters: The Glove or Freddy's Back!

Christian Pohl: Inquisition

Carl Rehmer: The Other Side - Sand Magick - From The Ashes - Ushebti - Sleight of Hand in Magick - In The Beginning - The Hand of Tod - Puzzler

James E. Sansotera: Fortune Foretold - I-Ching Prediction

Victor Sansoucie: Deadly Talisman

Thom Smythe: Stickless I-Ching

Bob Tanner: Chiselled In Stone

Paul Tess: I-Ching Sticks

Jeff Stortz and David E. Zver: Lizzie Borden Took An Axe...

David E. Zver: Let's Grow! - Spirit Slates, A Modern Alternative - Some Runic Notions - A Dead Man Tells A Tale - Using The Runes - Tarot Relativity - Nailed! - The Invisible College - How Powerful Are We? - Names and Magick

The following inserts are included:

2540-2448) CLARKE 'THE SENATOR' CRANDALL COMMENTs Magazine

A total of seven issues (numbered 1 thru 7) from June 1974 to August 1975.

Published monthly by Clarke Crandall. Hollywood, California.

Issues measure approx. 8 1/2"x11".

2485-5540) TWO NonMAGIC MAGAZINEs WITH "MAGIC THEMED" COVERs

a) MAD Magazine Number 182 for April 1976.

The one, the only - Alfred E. Newman on the cover as a magician, pulling a rabbit out of the top hat.

Not to be outdone, the rabbit is pulling Alfred out of his top hat, as well - who's, also, holding another top hat and just starting to pull out another rabbit.

b) COLLIERs Magazine - May 20, 1939

2482-4682) THE COSMOPOLITAN Magazine. April 1900. Volume 28, #6.

Hard to believe this magazine is 108 Years Old!! - $75.00

2401-2794) POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY, Volume 108, #2 - February 1926

Inside: "My Rope Escapes" by Houdini

The article is three pages, in length, and accompanied with a dozen great photos and illustrations.

Some of the escapes Houdini explains include:

The Handkerchief Release
You Can Slip Out Of Your Coat With Your Wrists Tied
The Thumb Tie
The "Full View Of The Audience" Release.

This article published just Eight Months before his death. - $45.00

2402-7862) READERs DIGEST Magazine for February 1976. Volume 108, #646. 239 pages. Inside there’s an article: “Houdini, The Man No Lock Could Hold” by James Stewart-Gordon.

a) Volume 3, #6/7 - April/May 1987 - Column, on the left, all about Houdini. Plus, another paragraph, on the next page, concerning an upcoming Houdini TV special. - $12.50

b) Volume 5, #7 - July 1989 - Cover shows promotional photo of Houdini and his young niece, Marie Blood. - Small article next to photo: "Houdini...He Was Just Uncle Harry To Me" by Marie Blood. - On the next page is a nice photo of Marie Blood with Dixie and Jennifer Dooley. - $12.50 (I can also provide this Marie Blood signed Houdini photo for $75.00)

c) Volume 5, #11 - June 1989 - Photo of The Outagamie Museum, on the cover, with article about the museum and the hosting of Sidney Radner's Houdini collection. Article continues on the first half of the next page. Also a nice photo of Dixie Dooley with Sid Radner. - Under "Dailey's Dates" is a quarter page article discussing when Bess and Harry Houdini started to date. - $12.50

(One of the last two listings, one must be mis-numbered, since the covers show #7 as July 1989 and #11 as June 1989)

d) Volume 6, #12 - December 1990 - Cover shows a photo from Houdini's movie, "The Master Mystery". There's a one-third page article, on the next page, by Marie Blood: "Houdini, The Master Mystery". - $15.00

e) Volume 8, #5 - May 1992 - Cover shows a photo of Houdini sitting in his bi-plane. Also, on the cover, "HOUDINI, The Pilot" by Frank W. Dailey. This article continues onto all of page 2 and half of page 3. There's a half page photo of Houdini flying the bi-plane on page 2, as well. Touches on Houdini's 1909 flight, in Germany, before his history making Australian flight.- $15.00

a) b) c) d) e)

2347-1456) MAGIC SOUNDs Magazine

Issued irregularly and measured 6 1/8"x8 1/2".

#5 - Re-Issue from May 1974
#8 - August 1974
#17 - November 1976
#19 - Summer 1977
#21- Winter 1977
#22 - Spring 1978
#23 - Summer 1978
#25 - Winter 1978
#26 - Spring 1979
#28 - Fall 1979

Including the First Ever - "Houdini Awards".  - $10.00

2218-3032) STANYONs MAGIC Magazine

The Oldest paper in the World devoted solely to the interest of Magicians, Jugglers, Hand Shadowists, Ventriloquists, Lightning Cartoonists and Specialty Entertainers.

Edited by Ellis Stanyon in London, England.

Some issues have loose pages and pencil writing.

This magazine ran from Volume 1#1 (October 1900) thru Volume 15, #9 (June 1920).

The issues offered here include:

A nice run of 63 issues, which includes Four Complete Volumes.

There are a couple damaged issues (V9N12 and V10N8), which aren't listed above, but included at no charge.

Prices are as follows:

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2235-5525) POPULAR SCIENCE MAGAZINE. Volume 116 #5. May 1930.

Spread out over four pages is a very interesting article by Harry Blackstone, Sr.:

HYPNOTISM. Fake, says a magician replying to a scientist who calls it Real

As the magazine puts it: "In our March issue, Wesley R. Wells, professor of psychology in Syracuse University, gave his views on hypnotism. Harry Blackstone, the famous magician, read Professor Wells’ article and sent us the following comment. Since it is the policy of Popular Science Monthly to open its columns to those who have made independent research in any field of science, we present Mr. Blackstone’s reply as an interesting exposition of the other side of a much disputed question".

Great early reading just 17 months after Houdini passed away. - $25.00

Again, Great early reading just 18 months after Houdini passed away. This issue is missing the back cover and some advs, etc. have been clipped out -BUT- none of this affects the Houdini article. It is complete and intact. - $25.00

As the magazine puts it:

"He gives a séance that baffles Theodore Roosevelt; he gratifies a lifelong ambition by filling his Mother’s apron with gold; he escapes from a Federal prison cell; releases the prisoners and then locks them up again; he is buried under six feet of earth, but comes to the surface".

Great early reading just 20 months after Houdini passed away. - $25.00

2149-1378) ARGOSY MAGAZINE, Volume 373, #3 September 1971.

Very Interesting article inside: "HOUDINIs MESSAGE FROM THE GRAVE" written by W.D. Chesney, M.D.

As the magazine piece states: "Having spent his life exposing phony spiritualist, the great escape artist, Harry Houdini, arranged a foolproof test of life after death: an elaborate plan to contact the living after his own demise. Few People are aware that documented evidence indicates he actually succeeded - at least twice!"

Bess Houdini and Arthur Ford’s 9 séances are discussed. A reproduced handwritten letter from Bess, is shown, stating the results of a session with Arthur Ford - where it is claimed Mr. Ford decoded the secret message Houdini and Bess had agreed upon: ROSABELLE BELIEVE.

Article also touches on Bess and another woman partnering, to make movies condemning spiritualism, with Bess as the Leading Lady.

Article concludes with a full page piece about the author, his old friend, (Dr. Van Welt) and Cal Harris (Houdini’s old business manager) attending a séance on March 1, 1942 conducted by medium Frank Decker. Cal Harris swears (and signed a statement to the effect) he DID make contact with Houdini (via Decker) by hearing the "voice" of Houdini, who answered questions to which only Cal Harris and Houdini would have known the answers. Did Houdini come back?!! - $25.00

2068-5412) FATE Magazine for June 1959. Volume 12, #6. 128 pages. Inside there's an article by Arthur Ford entitled: "How I Broke The Houdini Code".

If he survived death, famed Harry Houdini said, he would communicate in a code his wife alone knew.

Houdini had really started taking on the Mediums and getting a LOT of publicity over the past couple years.

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