Magic Mag by Derek Lever 1-4

Derek Lever's Magic Magzine, Volume 1

Volume 1 consists of 6 issues, 260 pages total

Volume 1, Number 1, October/November 1979, 36 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
Are Magic Societies Out of Date?
drawing collage of Chung Ling Soo
Blast from the Past - Chung Ling Soo - personality
Kid's Entertainers Only - news and advice
On the Road with Michael Allport - series
Zurich, Switzerland
Well I'll Be Hanged - a new illusion for Cabaret or Stage - Derek Lever
Entertaining with Close-Up - Simon Lovell
Stage Magic - Derek Lever
Cane & Rope
Agent's Directory - Derek Lever
Readers Letters - correspondence
Chest of Enchantment - plans
Card Capers - Brian Glover
Ace Change
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
Experiment in E.S.P.
People in the News
Simon Lovell coffin escape
Taurus Magic Supply Magic Catalogue - sample
Book Review
Harbincadabra
Body Magic - John Fisher
More Classical Magic with Apparatus - Robert Albo
Sherlock Holmes Force Book
Solid State Sorcery presenting The Art of Electronic Magic - David A.S. Howarth
Time Divination
Comedy Corner - jokes, comedy routines, etc.
Palmistry - Ron & Nancy Spencer
In the Next Issue
Volume 1, Number 2, December/January 1980, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
Happy New Year Everyone!
Children's Entertainers
Are You a Cheapskate?
What It Takes to be a Pro - John Hofner
Spider Girl Illusion - plans by Derek Lever
Blast from the Past
John Northern Hilliard - Author of "Greater Magic"
Palmistry - Ron & Nancy Spencer
Madam G.A. Syson
advertisements
Entertaining with Close-Up - Simon Lovell
The Tying and Untying Silk
Book Review
The Art of Escape - four volumes by John Novak
Brian Glover Lecture Notes
Close Up Presentation - John Mendoza
Great Illusions of Magic - Byrom G. Wells [sic]
What's New - product reviews
Linking Rings - London Magic Centre
T.V. Head Cabinet - The Magic Box
Spirit Nut - Bannett, Ltd.
Chinese Chicken - Barry Gordon
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
Comedy Card Stab - Derek Lever
Cig-A-Mental
Solid State Sorcery presenting The Art of Electronic Magic - David A.S. Howarth
Extra-Sensory Deception Box
Electronic Magic Question Corner
On the Road with Michael Allport - series
Geneva, Switzerland
Comedy Corner - jokes, comedy routines, etc.
Readers Letters - correspondence
Laff Lines - Oscar Paulson
For Kid's Entertainers Only
A Novelty Train Table
A Simple Dictionary Test
Good Shot - John Hofner
Broken and Restored Rubber Band
Cups and Pound Notes
Card Capers - Brian Glover
Matched Spellout Revisited
Mysteries of the East - Derek Lever
Eating Broken Glass
Chest of Enchantment
inside back cover - Agent's Directory
Volume 1, Number 3, February/March 1980, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
Exposure
Blast from the Past
Oswald Williams
The Broomstick Illusion - plans
The "Searcher" - Bob Ostin
Readers Letters - correspondence
On the Road with Michael Allport - series
Madrid, Spain
Comedy Corner - jokes, comedy routines, etc.
List of readers who passed the examination for "Master Magician"
Agent's Directory
Card Capers - Brian Glover
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
Simplicity Find The Lady - Derek Lever
Solid State Sorcery presenting The Art of Electronic Magic - David A.S. Howarth
Double Divination
Colour Cube Divination
Question Corner
Free Under a Fiver Section - readers' surplus equipment for sale
Entertaining with Close-Up - Simon Lovell
The Torn and Restored Ant
Escape from a Large Safe or Vault
Small Ads
Card in the Balloon Routine for Children - George Blake
For Kid's Entertainers Only
Party Pieces - Trevor Lewis
Settle Down
What's My Name
Mysteries of the East - Derek Lever
Lying on a Bed of Nails
What's New - product reviews
Arne Rising Cards
What Knots (Rope Illusion)
Jumbo Faked Decks
Coin in Lighter
Enchanted Cigarette Holder
Professional Silk Wand
Mediaeval Head Chopper
Sticky Finger
Computer-Vision
Volume 1, Number 4, April/May 1980, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
This Magic Store is a Rip Off
Cambridge Convention
Is He Britain's Youngest Professional?
Entertaining the Under-Fives
Spirit Silk- effect
The Spiker Illusion - plans
Book Review
Complete Guide to Conjuring - Ian Adair
Thayer Magic Catalog Instruction Sheets, Volume 1 - Glen Gravatt
The Edison of Magic - Burling "Volta" Hull
Larry Becker's World of Super Mentalism, Book Two - Larry Becker
Card Capers - Brian Glover
Mated Triumph
For Kid's Entertainers Only
Party Pieces - Trevor Lewis
Treasure Hunt - David A.S. Howarth
Hello! It's Kenny Dean
Kenny Deans Deodorant Gag
Odd Ropes Routine
Small Ads
Free Under a Fiver Section - readers' surplus equipment for sale
Wanna See a Good Magic Show? - Sim Sala Bim
Commercial Magic - Derek Lever
The Indestructible Man
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
Sucker Torn & Restored Tissue
List of readers who passed the examination for "Master Magician"
Tarot in Ten - Ron & Nancy Spencer
Solid State Sorcery presenting The Art of Electronic Magic - David A.S. Howarth
Simple Soldering
Electronic Haunted Deck
The Magic Clock
The Magic Chiming Clock
The Key of the Car
Weigh In
The Devil's Cauldron
The Laughing Pig
Lightning Choice
The Not So Lucky Light
The Spirit Voice
Comedy Tray Number One
Comedy Tray Number Two
The Exploding Tom Cat
Electronic Magic Question Corner
cartoon
Entertaining with Close-Up - Simon Lovell
Watergate
The Encyclopedia of Impromptu Magic - Martin Gardner - ad
Volume 1, Number 5, June/July 1980, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
Entertaining with Close-Up - Simon Lovell
The Thoughts of Chairman Lovell
Agent's Directory
List of readers who passed the examination for "Master Magician"
Reader's Letters - correspondence
For Kid's Entertainers Only
Party Pieces - Trevor Lewis
On the Road with Michael Allport - series
Interlaken, Switzerland
Matchimatical - effect
"Faux Pas" Flames to Cane - John Hofner
Solid State Sorcery presenting The Art of Electronic Magic - David A.S. Howarth
The Relay and The Solenoid
The Electronic Money Box
The Electronic Spirit Light
Electronic Magic Question Corner
Ring-A-Ding - Richard Himber
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
The Rabbit Selects
Hello! It's Kenny Dean
Kenny Dean's Sponge & Cups Routine
Small Ads
Put Some Expression Into It - Doug Alker
Stage Magic - illusion plans
The Door Way Production
Entertaining the Under Fives - Myster Yaffe
Colour Conscious - card effect
In the Bag & Out - Sven Kindbom
Carboni & Carbonita
DeLand's "Figure-It-Out" Mystery
Volume 1, Number 6, August/September 1980, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
Stupid Name Department
Stage Magic - illusion plans
The Vanishing Girl Illusion
Put Some Expression Into It - Doug Alker
The Inner Person
Comedy Corner - jokes, comedy routines, etc.
Chinese Sticks and the Pop Up Tie
For Kid's Entertainers Only
Party Pieces - Trevor Lewis
Hello! It's Kenny Dean
Card in Wallet
Free Advertising Section
Small Ads
Crazy Comperes - Ken Green & Mo Howarth
Floating by the Floats or Levitation by the Footlights
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
A Really Big Card Trick
Solid State Sorcery presenting The Art of Electronic Magic - David A.S. Howarth
The Electronic Piggy Bank
The Soldier and the Sailor
Bags of Gold
The "Brain" Box
Magi's Annual Quiz Day - announcement
Reader's Letters - correspondence
Entertaining with Close-Up - Simon Lovell
The Amazing Flying Across the Room and Penetrating a Window to Appear Stuck on it Card Trick
Know your Magic Dealer ...
Magic Books by Post
On the Road with Michael Allport - series
England
Entertaining the Under Fives - Myster Yaffe
Part Two - Your Props
Twin Minds - mentalism effect
List of readers who passed the examination for "Master Magician"
Agent's Directory

Derek Lever's Magic Magzine, Volume 2
Volume 2 consists of 6 issues, 264 pages total

Volume 2, Number 1, October/November 1980, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
Lever Agrees with Edwin
Stage Magic - illusion plans
The Boy to Rabbit Illusion
Entertaining the Under Fives - Myster Yaffe
Part Three - Your Material and You
It Need Not be Magi
Ya Gotta Have Love
Dealer's Items
List of readers who passed the examination for "Master Magician"
On the Road with Michael Allport - series
Switzerland
Small Adverts
Book Review
Richard Himber - The Man and His Magic
Last Hierophant - Jon Racherbaumer
Becoming Known - Tom Zoss
No Gimmick Headline Prediction - Joe Bruno
E.S.P. Poker - Joe Bruno
11,000 One-Liners - Edmund Orrin
Do the Stuff That's You - Chris Carey
The Creative Card Magic of William P. Miesel
Gene Gordon's Magical Legacy - Gene Gordon
Britons- - Never - -Never--Never - a bit of history from Oscar Paulson
Ball - Ring - Square - effect
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
Personality Parade
Bewitched Beverage - liquid effect
Clever Card Location - card effect
Agent's Directory
Entertaining with Close-Up - series by Simon Lovell
Snap Lap
Comedy Lines - Nobby Clark
For Kid's Entertainers Only
Party Pieces - Trevor Lewis
Put Some Expression Into It - Doug Alker
Putting It Into Practice
Do We Weep Real Tears?
Free Advertising Section
Hello! It's Kenny Dean
The Koppit (Pinched from the Toppit)
The Clever Calculator


Volume 2, Number 2, December/January 1981, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
Exposure - Yet Again!
Magical Inventor of the Year Trophy
Exclusive Magicians Club
Discounts
Stage Magic - illusion plans
Buzz Saw Illusion
Solid State Sorcery presenting The Art of Electronic Magic - series by David A.S. Howarth
Traffic Lights
Make Up Your Mind
Ring A Ding
Think a Colour
Technicolour Thought
Colour Coincidence
Circuit Diagram of Touch Switch
List of readers who passed the examination for "Master Magician"
Reader's Letters - correspondence
Put Some Expression Into It - Doug Alker
Projection
Other Uses of Expressions
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
The Card Sword
Hello! It's Kenny Dean
Face Ache (A Sight Gag)
Book Review
Ken Brooke Magic - The Unique Years
Free Advertising Section
Agent's Directory
Entertaining with Close-Up - series by Simon Lovell
Acme Coins Vanish
Entertaining the Under Fives - Myster Yaffe
Part Four
Your Relationship with your Audience
Your Attitude
Who Says it Doesn't Pay?
Routining
Comedy Corner - Alf J. Robb
Mental-Mania - Mentalism by Derek Lever
Spirit Photography
Number Force
Small Adverts


Volume 2, Number 3, February/March 1981, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
Oh ... It's One of Those Answering Machine Things
Exposure Once More
The Haunted House Illusion - Derek Lever
Mental-Mania - Mentalism by Derek Lever
Seeing the Silks
Miracle E.S.P. Prediction
Matched Thoughts
Stage Magic - illusion plans
Caliph's Cutter Illusion
Magical Inventor of the Year Competition
Walking Through a Brick Wall - C. Copp
Crazy Comperes - Ken Green & Mo Howarth
Coats
Hello! It's Kenny Dean
Ken's Kabaret Illusion
Entertaining with Close-Up - series by Simon Lovell
Card in Dove
Put Some Expression Into It - Doug Alker
Some Examples
1. Paper Tearing
2. Burnt £5 Note Trick
3. Sawing a Woman in Half
4. Productions
For Kid's Entertainers Only
Party Pieces - Trevor Lewis
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
That's Torn It
On the Road with Michael Allport - series
From Cool Cats to Cold Crocs
Copperfield to Collegiate in One Day
Spot That Tune
Which Face?
Paul Daniels in the West End
Lots of Chat
Magic from Hungary
Last Year's Titter
Just Bits
List of readers who passed the examination for "Master Magician"
Entertaining the Under Fives - Myster Yaffe
A Handpuppet Routine


Volume 2, Number 4, April/May 1981, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
report on trip to Daytona Magic
Magical Inventor of the Year Competition
Comedy Silk Sword - Norman Lee
The Comedy Silk Vanish Rifle - Norman Lee
Comedy Medal to Posy of Flowers
Garden Spray (Flit Gun) Change to Bouquet - Norman Lee
Solid State Sorcery presenting The Art of Electronic Magic - series by David A.S. Howarth
The Electronic Vanishing Car
Lightning Thoughts
The Spirits Communicate
The Vanishing Radio with Sound
The Magic Mouse
Self-Contained Electronic Jumbo Rising Cards
Electronic Time Delay Switch
Two Ways to Make 'em Laugh - Roy Roth
Agent's Directory
Reader's Letters - correspondence
Book Review
The Tarot Reader - Will Dexter
The Astrological Reader - Will Dexter
The Art of Escape, Volume 5 - The Bohemian Torture Escape - John Novak
The Art of Escape, Volume 6 - The Mail Bag Escape - John Novak
The Art of Escape, Volume 7 - The Thumb Tie - John Novak
The Art of Escape, Volume 8 - The Protégé (A Full Evening of Magic and Escapes) - John Novak
The Great Illusionists - Edwin A. Dawes
Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets
Comedy Linking Rings - David Ginn
Phantini's Incredible Mental Secrets - Gene Grant (Phantini)
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
Chinese Prediction
Put Some Expression Into It - Doug Alker
The Ladies
The Smile
Don's [Don Wallace] Trick is Hare-Raising - clip from the Bristol Journal
Entertaining with Close-Up - series by Simon Lovell
The Unbelievable and Stunning Production of a Live Alsation Dog from Under an Ordinary Pint Beer Mug (T.U.A.S.P.O.A.L.A.D.F.U.A.O.P.B.M.)
Hello! It's Kenny Dean
Ken's Koin Routine
Small Adverts
For Kid's Entertainers Only
Party Pieces - Trevor Lewis
Free Advertising Section
Discounts for members of the Exclusive Magicians Club


Volume 2, Number 5, June/July 1981, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
What About the Inventors of Magic?
Exclusive Magic in the West End?
Magical Inventor of the Year Competition
Florida Magic Again
Meeting Myster Yaffe - article by PeterWoolley
Stage Magic - illusion plans
Twin Box Illusion
Small Advertisements
Mental-Mania - Mentalism by Derek Lever
Bound by the Spirits
Ethereal Music
The Rapping Spirits
Levitating Spirits
Agent's Directory
Magical Inventor of the Year Competition
Comedy Breakaway Table and Flash Tray Production - Norman Lee
A Note from Father Christmas - Norman Lee
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
The Power of Seven - card effect
Ideas with a "Jap Box"
Free Advertising Section
The Incredible Penetration - ring & ribbon effect by Okito
List of readers who passed the examination for "Master Magician"
Hello! It's Kenny Dean
Ken's Newspaper Tear
Ken'ss Climax to the Newspaper Tear
Ken's Balloon Bovver
Kenny Dean's Complete Chop Cup Routine
Entertaining with Close-Up - series by Simon Lovell
Optician's Delight
Larry Becker to visit the UK
For Kid's Entertainers Only
Party Pieces - Trevor Lewis
Book Review
Imagination: The Illusions of Eugene Poinc
The Magic Box Catalogue
Kabbala, Volume One and Two - Jon Racherbaumer
Comedy Warm Ups - David Ginn
Bringing Home the Laughs - David Ginn
The Percy Press Glass of Water Production


Volume 2, Number 6, August/September 1981, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
Exclusive Magicians Club News
Commercial Magic - article by Derek Lever
Know Your Magic Dealer - Edwin Hooper, The Supreme Magic Company Ltd.
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
Cutting Down the Odds - paper cutting effect
The Spectator's Choice Vanishes - card effect by Myster Yaffe
Publicity Pays - article by P. C. Woolley
Reader's Letters - correspondence
Free Advertising Section
Entertaining with Close-Up - series by Simon Lovell
The Skill Myth Laid to Rest
Solid State Sorcery presenting The Art of Electronic Magic - series by David A.S. Howarth
The Spirit Lamp
A Quick Flash
A Bag of Laughs
Instant Sound
The Bell Box
Blast of Sound
Circuit of Sound Switch
Agent's Directory
Magical Inventor of the Year Competition
Comedy Cabaret Stool - Barry Seymour
On the Road with Michael Allport - series
U.K. Tour for U.S. Star
Jewel Thieves - At The Palladium
That Overused Word
Yet More From Across the Pond
Bits and Bobs
British Ring Convention - announcement
Hello! It's Kenny Dean
Thoughts on the Thumb Tip
The Kenny Dean Card Stab
Small Advertisements
For Kid's Entertainers Only
Party Pieces - Trevor Lewis
List of readers who passed the examination for "Master Magician"

Derek Lever's Magic Magzine, Volume 3

Volume 3 consists of 6 issues, 264 pages total

Volume 3, Number 1, October/November 1981, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
Magical Inventor of the Year Competition
The Impromptu Chop Cup - Eoin Taylor
Phenominal Coincidence - E. W. Thomas
Routine for the Cups and Balls Plus Chop Cup Set - Paul Anthony
another (better) photo of Edwin Hooper
List of readers who passed the examination for "Master Magician"
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
Figure Out the Colour - close-up effect
Hello! It's Kenny Dean
The Kenny Dean Ring in Box
For Kid's Entertainers Only
Party Pieces - Trevor Lewis
cartoon
Deceptively Different - Doug Alker
The Flaming Matchbox
Inside Information - bits of news
Book Review
A Gift from the Gods - Val Andrews
Jarrett - James H. Steinmeyer
Albert's Antics - Albert Ross
Legerdemine - Ronald J. Dayton
ESOLC ... (That's CLOSE-UP) - Trevor Lewis
The Supreme Magic Catalogue No. 30
Davenport's Book Catalogue
Simon Says - The Lecture Notes of Simon Lovell
Taurus Magic Supply Catalogue Number Three (1982)
Letters to the Editor
The I.B.M. Convention at Great Yarmouth - report
The International Contest
The Shield Competition
After Banquet Show
The Gala Show
The Peter Kersten Lecture
Convention Profile of Bob Little - Myster Yaffe
Entertaining with Close-Up - series by Simon Lovell
Stop Here if You Don't Want to Carry on Sponge Balls


Volume 3, Number 2, December/January 1982, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
Jack Hughes
F.I.S.M. Convention, Lausanne, Switzerland
Taurus Credit Cards
Results of the Magical Inventor of the Year
Comedy Cabaret Stool - Barry Seymour
Collective Publishing
Mental-Mania - Mentalism by Derek Lever
Silken Lady
Make 'em Laugh Mentalism
Water Divining
Faith Healing
The Incredible Floating Glass - cabaret effect
Stage Magic - illusion plans
Arm Cutting Illusion
Inside Information - bits of news
two photos of Bloody Jack
Free Advertising Section
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
special folders for holding three volumes of Magic Mag
Letters to the Editor - correspondence
For Kid's Entertainers Only
Party Pieces - Trevor Lewis
Agent's Directory
Entertaining with Close-Up - series by Simon Lovell
Ermintrude The Mind Reading, if Slightly Incontinent Baby Triffid
photo of Charles Clifton from the West Lancaster Evening Gazette
Deceptively Different - Doug Alker
Cigarette Routine
Hello! It's Kenny Dean
the "con market"
Ken's Balls Over Head
On the Road with Michael Allport - series
Jack Hughes
Book Review
Professional Magic for Children - David Ginn
The Mental Magic of Basil Horwitz
Thayer Magic Catalogue Instructions Sheets, Volume Four, Glenn Gravatt


Volume 3, Number 3, February/March 1982, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
F.I.S.M. Convention
Magical Inventor of the Year Competition
The Van-Change Production - Norman Lee
photo of Derek Lever and Ken Brooke
Free Advertising Section
Letters to the Editor - correspondence
Know Your Magic Dealer
The Magic Box - Isle of Wight
Who'd be a Magician's Assistant - Mary Travers
photo of Derek Lever and Barry Seymour
Mental-Mania - Mentalism by Derek Lever
Mentally Unlocked
Mental Electrics
Incredible Hearing
Pulse Divination
Bare-Faced Prediction
The Mental Healer
For Kid's Entertainers Only
Party Pieces - Trevor Lewis
Hand it to Them - Henrique
List of readers who passed the examination for "Master Magician"
Inside Information - bits of news
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
City-Mental
Entertaining with Close-Up - series by Simon Lovell
The Martin Breese Story
Pulse Beat
Hello! It's Kenny Dean
The Don't Know where it Came from Production
Deceptively Different - Doug Alker
a device to produce smoke from the pocket
cartoon


Volume 3, Number 4, April/May 1982, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
F.I.S.M. Convention
Ken Brooke
Ken Brooke and Friends
John Rhodes
Presidential Ponderings
The Lewis Lad at Harrogate
Exposure of the Worst kind
Chester Convention
Magical Miscellany - Brian Lead
Free Advertising Section
Inside Information - bits of news
Letters to the Editor - correspondence
Deceptively Different - Doug Alker
Eating Glass
List of readers who passed the examination for "Master Magician"
The Bunkum Business - Ron & Nancy Spencer
Happiness is ... - Henrique
Hello! It's Kenny Dean
The Magic Circle Show - Susan Dean
Ken's Dancing Coat Illusion
Entertaining with Close-Up - series by Simon Lovell
The Calamity Comedy Chopper Trick
For Kid's Entertainers Only
Party Pieces - Trevor Lewis
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
Think of a Card
photo of Barry Harvey
Special Offers for Members of the Exclusive Magicians Club Only
Magic - The Johnny Geddes Way
Kups and Balls for Kids
Entertaining Comedy or an Act for the Extrovert
The Baby Boy
Theatrical Agent's Directory
It's Just an Idea - Maurice Deighton
What's in a Name?
Book Review
Kidbiz - David Ginn
The Complete Works of Derek Dingle - Richard Kaufman
Close Up Capers - Clettis V. Musson
Further Magic with Dots - John Yeager
cartoon


Volume 3, Number 5, June/July 1982, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
More on the F.I.S.M. Convention
with four pages of photographs
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
The Magic Numbers - mathemagic
Letters to the Editor - correspondence
Theatrical Agent's Directory
It's Just an Idea - Maurice Deighton
Ode to One-Gun McGraw
Book Review
Dr. Rockwells Medicine Show - Lloyd E. Jones
Supreme Magic Catalogue Number Thirty-One
Best of Friends - Harry Lorayne
Fun Magic - Herb Downs
Magical Inventor of the Year Competition
Trying to Have a Smoke - Norman Lee
Inside Information - bits of news
Free Advertising Section
Entertaining with Close-Up - series by Simon Lovell
Six Inch Nail Spectacular
Hello! It's Kenny Dean
Ken's Kotten Trick
Krazy Ken's C.B. Trick
Ken's Nice Opener
Magical Miscellany - Brian Lead
Take a Tip from Me
Can-Can
Only here for the Beer
Straight from the Horses [sic] Mouth
Have You Got a Light, Mac?
The Excremental Vision - or Simulated Dung
Happiness is ... - Henrique
cartoon


Volume 3, Number 6, August/September 1982, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
The I.B.M. British Ring Convention at Hastings
Jack Hughes Book in a Public Library?
Subscription Renewal Time
Hello! It's Kenny Dean
Ken's Head Banger, Banger
Annual Day of Magi - announcement from The Order of the Magi
A Couple of 'Quickies' Mainly for Magicians - Bob Ostin
The Vanishing Hole
The Perfect Shell
Book Review
The Pickpocket Secrets of Mark Raffles - Mark Raffles
Magical Inventor of the Year Competition
The Hong-Kong Hotpoint Conversion for the Chinese Washing Machine - Barry Seymour
A Simple Reverse - card effect by Myster Yaffe
Theatrical Agent's Directory
Happiness is ... - Henrique
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
gag cards
Inside Information - bits of news
Magical Miscellany - Brian Lead
Deceptively Different - Doug Alker
The Pound Note Counting Routine
Letters to the Editor - correspondence
For Kid's Entertainers Only
Party Pieces - Trevor Lewis
Entertaining with Close-Up - series by Simon Lovell
Chatty Poos
It's Just an Idea - Maurice Deighton
The Magic Christmas Card
Free Advertising Section

Derek Lever's Magic Mag, Volume 4
Volume 4 consists of 6 issues, 266 pages total

Volume 4, Number 1, October/November 1982, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
Praise from Abra
Magic Mag Magician of the Year
Comedy Corner - jokes, comedy routines, etc. - Derek Lever
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
A Different Card Trick - Maurice Deighton
cartoon
Free Advertising Section
Happiness is ... - Henrique
List of readers who passed the examination for "Master Magician"
Book Review
The Magic of Show Business - Simon Lovell
Supreme Magic Catalogue Number Thirty-Two
Tricks for Travelling Tricksters - Ken De Courcy
The TAT Papers - The House Magazine of Sound of Magic Video 5
Phantini Revisited - Gene Grant
Tips on Table Hopping - Kirk Charles
What Can You do with This? (or Improv Magic) - Kirk Charles
Magicomedy - Mike Caveney
The World's Largest Used Magic List - Taurus Magic Supply
Magical Inventor of the Year Competition
panty egg bag - comedy magic - Barry Seymour
The Orbital Mammoth Card Stab - comedy magic - Paul George (with cartoon on page 14)
Agent's Directory
Deceptively Different - Doug Alker
Supersuds - children's effect
Hello! It's Kenny Dean
Ken's Komedy Kups and Balls (For Stage)
Blackpool Magicians Club present the 31st Annual One-Day Convention - announcement
Entertaining with Close-Up - series by Simon Lovell
The Amazing Vanishing Ring in Chinese Rat Routine
missing page
For Kid's Entertainers Only
Party Pieces - Trevor Lewis
Letters to the Editor - correspondence
Inside Information - bits of news
Volume 4, Number 2, December/January 1983, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
Inventors' Club - Peter Warlock
The Matter of Invention
Free Advertising Section
Letters to the Editor - correspondence
What's New - The Real Truth About Those New Releases
The Amazing Carroll's Watch Thing - Martin Breese Magic
The Mullica Wallet - Magic Methods
John Cornelius Pinnacle Pad - John Cornelius
Magician's Date Book - John Cornelius
Cabaret Jumbo Brainwave Deck - m Barry Gordon
Dancing Ring - Dick Zimmerman
Rope and Ring - routine
Face to Face - Derek Lever
With Tommy Cooper
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
a Chinese prediction card trick
Magical Miscellany - Brian Lead
edible props
cartoon
Hello! It's Kenny Dean
Book Review
Further Classic Magic with Apparatus - Robert J. Albo
More Collected Writings of Glenn Gravatt
Six Columns - Al Mann
None So Blind - Al Mann
Limelight - Al Mann
Marked - A Manual of Marked Card Magic
Deckade - David Britland
cartoon
Entertaining with Close-Up - series by Simon Lovell
The Tantilizing [sic] Time Piece
Inside Information - bits of news
The Order of the Magi Dinner, Dance and Cabaret - announcement
Deceptively Different - Doug Alker
a card trick based on the Homing Card
List of readers who passed the examination for "Master Magician"
Magical Inventor of the Year Competition
Tricky Torch - Norman Lee
Happiness is ... - Henrique
Volume 4, Number 3, February/March 1983, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
Blackpool Convention
Face to Face - Derek Lever
With Billy McComb
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
The Acrobatic Dog - Joe Quinn
What's New - The Real Truth About Those New Releases
Pop Goes the Measles - Supreme Magic
Happy Birthday paper Tear - Supreme Magic
The Silken Lady - Supreme Magic
The Wise Old Owl - Ron Gilbert Magical Exclusives
Happiness is ... - Henrique
Magical Inventor of the Year Competition
Disc-Concerting - Norman Lee
The Appearing Card in Mouth - Henrique
Letters to the Editor - correspondence
Hello! It's Kenny Dean
Bed of Nails
Free Advertising Section
Magical Miscellany - Brian Lead
thinking about pictures and artists
cartoon
The Order of the Magi Dinner - Manchester - report
Inside Information - bits of news
For Kid's Entertainers Only
Party Pieces - Trevor Lewis
Inventors' Club - Derek Lever
David A.S. Howarth M.I.M.C.
List of readers who passed the examination for "Master Magician"
Entertaining with Close-Up - series by Simon Lovell
Jack Catch
Volume 4, Number 4, April/May 1983, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
Free Advertising Section
Face to Face - Derek Lever
With Alan Shaxon
Mental-Mania - Mentalism by Derek Lever
The Murder Weapon
Colour Thought
Mental Photography
What's New - The Real Truth About Those New Releases
Marked Coin in Lighter - Rob Chesbro
Eclipse - Tenyo Magic
Wonder Window - Tenyo Magic
Ultraslice - Tenyo Magic
Quicksilver- Tenyo Magic
A Slice Off Hand or the Arm-Hand Illusion - Magic Ian
Magic Straw - Petrick & Mia
Linking Razor Blades - Petrick & Mia
Firefly - Zanadu
Book Review
The Ganson Book
Hot Stuff - Stu Finley
The Wonderful Magic of Chefalo - Val Andrews
The Funniest Magic Show in the World - Al Lampkin
Used Magic List - Wizard Pandolf Magic
The Exclusive Collectors Catalogue - Paul Stone
Davenport's Second Edition Book Catalogue and List Supplement
Trio - Roy Johnson
Magical Inventor of the Year Competition
Hockery Dockery Dick - Norman Lee
The Comedy Card Sword - Norman Lee
Hello! It's Kenny Dean
Some Thoughts on the Thumb Tie
Stage Magic - illusion plans
The Dagger Chest Illusion
West Country Wizards - report and photos by Peter C. Woolley
Letters to the Editor - correspondence
Entertaining with Close-Up - series by Simon Lovell
The if You can Show me a Bit of Business as Good as This I'll Give You Fifty Quid Trick
Happiness is ... - Henrique
Volume 4, Number 5, June/July 1983, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages and two unnumbered insert pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
Baden Baden Congress
Paul Daniels Show - Winter Gardens, Blackpool
Simon Lovell - Frankie Vaughan Show, Blackpool
Inventors' Club
Edward M. Massey's Original Magical Creations
Magical Inventor of the Year Competition
The Quick and Easy Roll On Table - Joe Quinn
Pie Crust Pete - Henrique
The Stolen Diamond of Twange - Henrique
cartoon
Mental-Mania - Mentalism by Derek Lever
Space Flight [Eddie Joseph]
The Third Hand
Book Review
Shotts in the Dark = Floyd Shotts
Card Modes - Software for a Deck of Cards - Robin Robertson
More Fun with Card Tricks - John Yeager
Secret Thoughts - Ronald J. Dayton
The Crowning Miracles - Eric C. Lewis
Paul Osborne'S Illusion Systems - Books One and Two
Happiness is ... - Henrique
cartoon
2 insert pages for: Code for Mental Telephony
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
Mental Telephony - mentalism
An Eye Test - a bit of fun
What's New - The Real Truth About Those New Releases
Magnetic Torpedo - Taurus Magic Supply
The Ultimate Mi-Made Lady Illusion - Swensen Productions
Lota Thermos - Badgematic
Stuck Up Stamps - Supreme Magic
Sonic Control Flippo - Taurus Magic Supply
Free Advertising Section
Hello! It's Kenny Dean
Ken's Opening Gag
Laugh Time
Inside Information - bits of news
Letters to the Editor - correspondence
Entertaining with Close-Up - series by Simon Lovell
A Fishy Tale
cartoon
Magical Miscellany - Brian Lead
cartoon
Volume 4, Number 6, August/September 1983, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
announcement of sale of the magazine to Nigel Backhurst
Magical Inventor of the Year - Result
Draw between Barry Seymour and Norman Lee Runner-up Paul George
Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
folder to hold Volume 4
Letters to the Editor - correspondence
Face to Face - Peter Woolley
With Derek Lever
What's New - The Real Truth About Those New Releases
Electronic Key Box - Anverdi
Die Box Effect - Anverdi
Funken Ring - available from Ace Place Magic
The New Scotty York Lamp Trick - available from Ace Place Magic
Free Advertising Section
Inside Information - bits of news
Happiness is ... - Henrique
Book Review
Jar-Ring - Johnny Geddes
Johnny Geddes Lecture Notes
5000 One & Two Liners for any and every Occasion - Leopold Fechtner
Gaetan Bloom Lecture Notes
Oriental Conjuring and Magic - Will Ayling
The Magic of Frederica - Tommy Frederick
Micky Hades' Encyclopedia of Suspensions and Levitations
Great Magicians in Great Moments - Irving Desfor
Kid Stuff Five - Francis Ireland Marshall
Comedy Magic - Bill Beresford
cartoon
The Secret Weapon - David A.S. Howarth
Magical Miscellany - Brian Lead
Deceptively Different - Doug Alker
The No Switch Razor Blade Routine
cartoon
Hello! It's Kenny Dean
Ken's Routine for Charlie Edwards' Dissolving Knots
Ken's Klose Up Kard Kloser
cartoon
Entertaining with Close-Up - series by Simon Lovell
Arthur Turnbull the Psychic Lobster
Solid State Sorcery presenting The Art of Electronic Magic - series by David A.S. Howarth
Is Electronic Magic Reliable?
An Introduction To The New Magic Mag - Nigel G. Backhurst