[MAGIC – PERIODICALS] Four Runs of Magic Magazines. Three Complete Files, including: [SHELLEY, Gene and STRONG, Dave, editors]. The Best and Worst of Chaos and Everything in Between. Abraxas Publications, 2009. Micky Hades’ reprint of the infamous underground magic magazine, Chaos, with color reprints of all 36 issues, 1 supplemental issue, and 37 supplement pouches. Signed by Hades on the general title. Unnumbered. Housed in publisher’s 3-ring binder. Fine. [And:] [WRIGHT, Gene, editor]. Houdini’s Magic Magazine. [Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Stories, Layouts, 1977-1978]. Vol. 1, no. 1 to vol. 2, no. 2. Five issues, complete file. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Some rubbing, soiling, else fine. With articles about Doug Henning, Siegfried and Roy, Houdini, and the film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. [And:] The New Conjurors’ Magazine [later] The Conjurors’ Magazine. [New York: Conjurors’ Press, February, 1945-September, 1949]. Vol. 1 no. 1 to vol. 5, no. 7. 55 issues, complete file. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Some wear, rubbing, soiling. Near fine. Houdini’s brother, Hardeen, helped launch this magazine, but died shortly thereafter. [And:] The CAM Flash [later] Northern Peaks Magazine. [Ontario: Official Magazine of the Canadian Association of Magicians, 1997-2014]. Vol. 1, no. 2 - Vol. 17, no. 1. One issue of CAM Flash is not dated or numbered, so may be vol. 1, no. 1. Staple-bound issues. Small 4tos. Illustrated. Some rubbing, minor soiling. Fine. 46 early issues of this Canadian magic magazine, still in print today. Several issues still in mailing envelopes.
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