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Sid Fleischman Drunken Cocktail liquid travels from straw to straw
 		Feb. 1940
The Jinx (Issue 79)
518
Sid Fleischman Card to Fake Teeth
Sep. 1941
The Jinx (Issue 148)
826
Paul Fleming (reviewer) Call the Witness by Robert "Bob" J. Gunther (written by Sid Fleischman) 1944
The Paul Fleming Book Reviews — Volume I
64
Sid Fleischman, Robert "Bob" J. Gunther The Impromptu Floating Card card floats over palm up hands
Variations 1945
My Best
63
Sid Fleischman The Trick Without a Name signed page of a Reader's Digest is burned and reappears bound in the magazine, clever
Related to 1945
My Best
205
James G. Thompson Jr. Biographical Sketches of Contributors
  • Theo. Annemann
  • Charles Arbuthnot
  • George E. Arrowsmith
  • Roger Barkann
  • Sylvan Barnet
  • Joseph L. Barnett
  • Raymond L. Beebe
  • Eugene Bernstein
  • J. B. Bobo
  • John N. Booth
  • Tom Bowyer
  • Vynn Boyar
  • Joan Brandon
  • Fred Braue
  • John Braun
  • Lu Brent
  • R. C. Buff
  • Clyde F. Cairy
  • Loring Campbell
  • Jack Chanin
  • Frank Chapman
  • Forest V. Chesbro
  • Milbourne Christopher
  • Eddie Clever
  • Stanley Collins
  • Mystic Craig
  • Thomas J. Crawford
  • John J. Crimmins, JR.
  • Paul J. Curry
  • Del Monte
  • Harry Dobrin
  • Ronald B. Edwards
  • Bruce Elliot
  • Professor El-Tab
  • Dr. E. G. Ervin
  • Dr. Henry Ridgely Evans
  • Val Evans
  • "Hen" Fetsch
  • Thomas B. Fitzgerald
  • Dariel Fitzkee
  • Sid Fleischman
  • Joseph Harman Fries
  • Martin Gardner
  • Teral Garrett
  • Walter B. Gibson
  • Arnold L. Grubin
  • Nelson C. Hahne
  • Hathaway
  • Royal V. Heath
  • Charles H. Hopkins
  • Jean Hugard
  • Mark Jacobs
  • R. M. Jamison
  • F. H. Jeudevine
  • Maurice Kains
  • George G. Kaplan
  • George Karger
  • Joseph A. Karson
  • Wilbur Kattner
  • Gerald Lynton Kaufman
  • Howard B. Kayton, M.D.
  • The Great Kolar
  • Gerald Kosky
  • Abril Lamarque
  • William W. Larsen
  • Sid Lorraine
  • Art Lyle
  • L. Vosburgh Lyons
  • Richard F. Madden
  • Greer Marechal, JR.
  • George McAthy
  • William H. McCaffrey
  • Jack McMillen
  • Harry Mendoza
  • Orville Meyer
  • John W. Mifflin
  • Chester Morris
  • Paul Morris
  • Frederick Mosteller
  • Robert A. Nelson
  • C. A. George Newmann
  • Grady S. Nicholson
  • Dr. Cecil E. Nixon
  • Charles Walter Nyquist
  • Dell O'Dell
  • Tom Osborne
  • George Harrison Pittman
  • Julien J. Proskauer
  • Clayton Rawson
  • Ralph W. Read
  • Dolf Rudin
  • Herb Rungie
  • Ned Rutledge
  • James J. Sanders
  • Lucille Pierce Saxon
  • Sigmar - The Magician
  • Jerry Sorensen
  • Willard S. Smith
  • George Starke
  • Dr. Raymond V. Stone, SR. (RAMO)
  • Harlan Tarbell
  • DR. Franklin Taylor
  • J. G. Thompson, JR.
  • Jack F. Trebel
  • M. Van Reese
  • Jack Vosburgh
  • Audley Valentine Walsh
  • Peter Warlock
  • Herman L. Weber
  • Bob Weill
  • William H. Wilson
  • Tommy Windsor
  • Howard H. Wise
  • Ed. Wolff
  • Michael F. Zens
 		1945
My Best
347
Neal Elias No Gimmick Card Spread long spread, using perpendicular card
Related toVariations 1946
At the Table Tricks
18
Will De Sieve Clippo Cut and restored newspaper strip
Variations 1968
Newspaper Magic
95
Sid Fleischman, Robert "Bob" J. Gunther Shoe That Didn't Fit Clippo routine with shoe cutout
Inspired by 1968
Newspaper Magic
101
Sid Fleischman The Mind Boggler spelling and named number, glide
 		1970
Magick (Issue 5)
23
Bascom Jones The Mystic Word on Bob Gunther, Kirk Stiles, Sid Fleischman
 		1970
Magick (Issue 6)
30
Sid Fleischman, Robert "Bob" J. Gunther Call Me Anytime long-distance call, force
 		1970
Magick (Issue 8)
40
Sid Fleischman One-Way Deck Revisited chalk mark on side, fan turnover
 		1970
Magick (Issue 9)
42
Sid Fleischman Comedy Hindu Vase rope & vase, bottle covered in paper, with spectator as Do as I Do
Related to 1971
Magick (Issue 13)
63
Bascom Jones The Mystic Word on Sid Fleischman, Fred Kolb
 		1971
Magick (Issue 18)
90
Sid Fleischman The Patter Hangup
  • The Art of Silence
  • Opening Remarks
  • The Segue
  • Who are you?
  • A Cautionary Word about Words
  • How to use Patter Books
  • Gags can be Treacherous
  • Patter by the Yard - or the Inch?
  • Try it Out in Boston
  • Patter in Disguise
 		1971
Magick (Issue 19)
95
Sid Fleischman Torn and Restored Cigarette Paper
Related to 1971
Magick (Issue 27)
133
Sid Fleischman W. C. Fields Does a Card Trick talking with voice on record, revelation of a playing card
Also published here 1971
Magick (Issue 38)
187
Dr. E. Raymond Carlyle Ashes to Ashes page torn out from book is burnt and found back in the book
Related toVariations 1972
Magick (Issue 54)
267
Bascom Jones, Sid Fleischman Japanese Haunted House haunted box, bell rings etc, using a jap box
Related to 1972
Magick (Issue 59)
291
Sid Fleischman Haunted House Plus Two using Jap Box, moving silk
Related to 1972
Magick (Issue 61)
302
Joseph K. Schmidt Subconscious Poker II one card is controlled during the repeat-dealing of five poker-hand and appears in a Royal Flush, see also p. 840 for idea by Cushing Strout
Inspired byRelated toVariationsAlso published here Dec. 1973
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 9 No. 2)
687
Sid Fleischman The Jump Card deck is snapped and selection jumps from center
Also published here 1973
Magick (Issue 82)
409
Sid Fleischman, Robert "Bob" J. Gunther 'Test' Conditions number on poker chip is divined, in rattle box
 		1975
Magick (Issue 131)
652
Karl Fulves Contacting The Spirits top card on small packet floats up, using card with hole in center
Inspired byRelated to 1979
The Topological False Count
14
David Avadon, Sid Fleischman One Man Telephone Trick prediction of serial number on answering machine of telephone
 		1981
Magick (Issue 290)
1449
Sid Fleischman, Robert "Bob" J. Gunther Der Telephonschocker! person called during performance, spectator hears performer's voice naming the selection
 		June 1981
Intermagic (Vol. 8 No. 2)
78
Dr. Dan J. Alessini, Sid Fleischman Script-a-Graphic presentation for divination of ESP card
 		Dec. 1985
Magick (Issue 362)
1809
Sid Fleischman Preface
1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
13
Sid Fleischman The World Famous Coin Swallowing Act using $1.35 locking coins set
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
17
Sid Fleischman, Arthur Gross Another Way coins slid off magazine into other hand, magazine as coin tray, razor blade switch mentioned
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
20
Sid Fleischman The Torn & Restored Cigarette Paper, Revisited wax on thumbnail (also in 1947 booklet), piece secretly mouthed
  • 2 (waxless method)
Inspired by
  • "The Blue Bug" (1947 booklet, Sid Fleischman & Bob Gunther)
Related to 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
21
Sid Fleischman Harry Is At It Again box drawn on napkin, "Houdini" written inside, writing vanishes from napkin and appears on hand
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
25
Sid Fleischman Ringbound two or three rings through pen at once
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
27
Sid Fleischman The 31-Day Coin Trick coin tossed towards ceiling vanishes, a month later it comes down into glass
  • First Magic Meeting: The Vanish
  • Second Magic Meeting: The Return
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
30
Sid Fleischman The Vanish coin tossed from hand to hand back and forth, then into air
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
30
Sid Fleischman Spoon Twisting spoon moves, then has a twist in its handle, switch as spoon drops to floor
  • Tabletop Switch
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
34
Sid Fleischman Lady McBathtub continuous ball production with hand with is made to look like a face/puppet
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
39
Sid Fleischman Five Minutes of Voodoo presentation for block that falls over (shifting weight)
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
43
Sid Fleischman Coin Fade coin on palm, hand turned over and back, it vanishes, then reappears, other hand holds wrist
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
46
Sid Fleischman The Bottle Diabolique bottle clings to rope
  • 1 Beer Bottle
  • 2 Perrier (bill around neck)
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
48
Sid Fleischman The Bottle Fantastique bottle clings to rope, gimmick on invisible thread
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
54
Sid Fleischman Do As I Do routine with spectator
Related to 1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
56
Sid Fleischman The Mean Magician Syndrome presentation for finger chopper
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
58
Sid Fleischman The Longest Card Trick stop watch vanishes with gag presentation
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
60
Sid Fleischman The Fail-Safe Rope loop in thumb tip or attached to pull
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
62
Sid Fleischman On Professor Charles W. Fait
1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
66
Sid Fleischman Nomenclature
1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
72
Sid Fleischman A Guide to the Gallows marking system in which letters are written on back, Lesley type
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
73
Sid Fleischman Flash Mnemonics No. 1, order of shuffled deck apparently memorized
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
76
Sid Fleischman Jimmy Valentine Returns, Blindfolded No. 2, reading cards with fingertips
  • The Blindfold Finish
  • The Card Discovery Finish
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
78
Sid Fleischman The Princess & The Pea No. 3, reading cards with fingertips, routine with jumbo cards
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
80
Sid Fleischman On Thayer's Studio of Magic
1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
83
Sid Fleischman You, Too Can Have X-Ray Eyes No. 4, apparently reading a card through a piece of metal
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
84
Sid Fleischman The Moving Lips spectator thinks of name of his card and performer names it
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
86
Sid Fleischman The Eyes presentation for revealing a card
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
86
Sid Fleischman The Vagrant Key marked deck for setting key card next to selection which is not read
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
87
Sid Fleischman The World's Greatest Average Card Trick comedy routine for naming a selection
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
88
Sid Fleischman Beating the Odds two spectators freely chose cards for value and suit, card produced in humorous way
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
90
Sid Fleischman On Madame Houdini
1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
93
Sid Fleischman The Fabled Non-Working, Self-Working Card Trick presentation for Schmidt's effect
Inspired byVariations 1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
94
Sid Fleischman The One Card Repeat parody on Six Card Repeat, single card vanishes at knee and reappears in hand
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
97
Sid Fleischman False Transfer and Vanish with back palm
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
97
Sid Fleischman One-Arm McDonald Card Tricks introduction to one-handed card tricks
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
100
Sid Fleischman The Right-Handed Card Trick No. 1, one-handed card to pocket, signed, from 1930s, one-handed only after control and palm
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
102
Sid Fleischman Bud & Sid
1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
107
Sid Fleischman A Flourish From the 30x perpendicular card under the deck holds long spread
  • The Extender (two perpendicular cards)
Related to 1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
109
Sid Fleischman A Pocketful of Wry card turns over in cased deck, deck switch
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
112
Sid Fleischman The Wrong Way Card Trick card trick performed backwards, card first produced from pocket and shown, then lost, then selection made, it's another card that changes into original card, selection then produced from pocket
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
114
Sid Fleischman The Card in the Fly credit information
Related to
  • "Make no Mistake" (Sidney Fleischman, Genii, Dec. 1940)
 1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
116
Sid Fleischman On Houdini
1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
119
Sid Fleischman An Aside on the Thumb Count
1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
120
Sid Fleischman Weighing the Cards No. 1, using thumb count
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
122
Sid Fleischman The Machine Gun Color Change No. 2, continuous changes as hand passes over deck back and forth
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
124
Sid Fleischman The Pigeon Pasteboard No. 3, card at named position remembered, it later is found at same position
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
127
Sid Fleischman The Crimp Force gambling for seventeen
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
129
Sid Fleischman W. C. Fields Does a Card Trick talking with voice on record, revelation of a playing card
Also published here 1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
130
Sid Fleischman On Arthur F. Bull
1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
134
Sid Fleischman A Magic Club Roast card finding routine with gags for magicians, sleights listed on post-it
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
136
Sid Fleischman The Potato and the Card Trick humorous spelling effect, double count placement
  • Alternate Handling
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
140
Sid Fleischman On Presentation and Literacy see also next pages
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
140
Sid Fleischman Card Gossip person thinks of a card and whispers it to someone, who whispers it to another one but can lie, and so on, final card predicted in Brainnwave deck or other
  • The Silent Partner Option
  • The Index Option
  • Thumb Writing
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
145
Sid Fleischman The Poor Man's Orient Express signed card to inside sand frame
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
148
Sid Fleischman Join the A.S.C.T. Michelangelo themed revelation in which all cards are eliminated except selection
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
150
Sid Fleischman Genii Ad "The Trick Without A Name"
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
152
Sid Fleischman The False Shuffle - Who Needs It?
1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
155
Sid Fleischman The Push Through False Shuffle Made Easy No. 1, reducing friction
  • Big Tip
  • A Bigger Tip
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
157
Sid Fleischman The Zarrow Shuffle - Fleischman Handling No. 2, cards lifted on edge for squaring
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
160
Sid Fleischman The Carl March Shuffle back and forth, optical shuffle
Also published here
  • Magic Made Easy, 1950s, Carl March (pseudonym of Sid Fleischman)
 1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
162
Sid Fleischman Sawing is believing on The Great Virgil
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
165
Sid Fleischman How Did That Card Get In My Hand?
1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
166
Sid Fleischman The Coward's Palm No. 2
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
171
Sid Fleischman The Fleischman Pop-Up Palm No. 3, left thumb pushes card into right palm
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
172
Sid Fleischman The Camelback Palm No. 4, top card buckled with left thumb
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
175
Sid Fleischman My other life
1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
178
Sid Fleischman Double Lifting comment on the hit lift
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
179
Sid Fleischman The Camelback Double Lift No. 1, thumb count and buckling of top two cards
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
180
Sid Fleischman The Fleischman Snap or The Wonderful One-Handed Double Lift No. 2, card snaps to the right after thumb count, optional tabling
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
182
Sid Fleischman Piking the Card
1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
184
Sid Fleischman Thumbduggery on sleights using the thumb
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
188
Sid Fleischman Center Stealing No. 1, dragged out by left thumb
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
189
Sid Fleischman Bottom Stealing No. 2, left thumb action
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
190
Sid Fleischman Color Changing
1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
191
Sid Fleischman A Crimpmeister's Crimp crimping isolated card in hand
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
193
Sid Fleischman The Chutzpa Crimp spectator is told to crimp the card for later identification
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
195
Sid Fleischman The Fleischman Shoot No. 2, deck is snapped and selection jumps from center
Also published here 1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
199
Sid Fleischman The One-Handed Shoot No. 3, deck held in hand, selection shoots up into the air
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
202
Sid Fleischman Mr. Mysterious & Company
1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
204
Sid Fleischman Adventures With the Three Shell Game
  • A Tip on the Pea
  • Mind Reading with Shell
  • Bottom Up
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
207
Sid Fleischman You, Too, Can Saw A Lady in Two "Or, Five Minutes of Comedy Suspense with a Red Ribbon"
ribbon through person
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
210
Sid Fleischman The Lady Disrobes paddle design with woman with and without clothing
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
215
Sid Fleischman Ring Business addition of key ring, link in which ring drops off the arm into a held ring
  • The Double Touch
  • The Mickey Mouse Bit
 		1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
217
Sid Fleischman, David Avadon The Fleischman-Avadon No-Switch Needle Swallowing Trick
Related to
  • Genii Review by David Avadon for clarification
 1993
The Charlatan's Handbook
225
Sid Fleischman, Robert "Bob" J. Gunther The Baking Powder Can stealing an egg from baking powder can
Related to
  • Top Secrets, Fleischman and Gunther, 1947, p. 13
 2002
The Encyclopedia of Egg Magic
31
Sid Fleischman Magic's Second Most Notorious Trick message written on skin of hard-boiled egg when peeled
VariationsAlso published here
  • MAGIC, Vol. 10 No. 4, Dec. 2000, p. 73
 2002
The Encyclopedia of Egg Magic
251
Tom Conley Conley's Mindless Egg card chosen, three eggs on table, one peeled and name of card is on hard-boiled yolk inside, second egg has miniature deck with selection reversed and third egg folded selection inside
Inspired by 2002
The Encyclopedia of Egg Magic
252
David Avadon Sid Fleischman: The Abracadabra Kid
June 2003
Genii (Vol. 66 No. 6)
36
Steven Youell The Infamous Non-Working Self-Working Card Trick Joker stabbed between two cards, suit and value of cards above and below used to compose new card, it is found in pocket
Inspired by 2004
Weapons of Mass Destruction
16
Michael Close (reviewer) Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Fleischman Oct. 2006
Genii (Vol. 69 No. 10)
108