Jimmy Grippo

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Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Jimmy Grippo	Clear Through!	handkerchief put on deck and corner folded in, selection penetrates the silk	Also published here Clear Thru! (Jimmy Grippo, 1972)	Nov. 1942	The Phoenix (Issue 23)	97	Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / With Other Objects / Handkerchief
Bruce Elliott	The Back Room	Bill Larsen and genii rant, Jimmy Grippo, Bruce Elliott's baby		Feb. 1943	The Phoenix (Issue 28)	118	Articles / Columns
Bruce Elliott	The Back Room	on a show by the IBM ring NYC, John Scarne, Jimmy Grippo, how to soften a deck for back palming, two newspaper clippings from Dunninger	Related to Dunninger's Brain-Thrust (Joseph Dunninger, Al Mann, 1983)	Mar. 1943	The Phoenix (Issue 31)	130	Cards / Manipulation / Tips Cards / Sleights / Palming / Back Palm Articles / Columns
Francis Carlyle	Homing Card		Related to The Francis Carlyle Card to Pocket (Gary Kurtz, 1989) On the Carlyle Card to Pocket (Gary Kurtz, 1992) Gizzard (Tyler Wilson, 2024) Variations The New, Revised Version of the "Homing Card" (Francis Carlyle, 1975) The Card in the Pocket (Roger Smith, 1982) The Homing Card - Updated (Francis Carlyle, 1985 ca.) Heimkehrer-Karte (Rudolf Braunmüller, Francis Carlyle, 1985) Fotomaton (Rafael Benatar, 1989) A Real Stand-up Card Routine (Mac King, 1990) Flying Home (Michael Close, 1994) Professional Card to Pocket (Gregory Wilson, 1999) Home to Roost (George McBride, 2000) Homing Deck Vanish (Mac King, 2002) Phantom Aces (Euan Bingham, 2005) Homing Card Variation (Darwin Ortiz, 2006) Bold Card to Wallet (Brent Braun, 2012) Phase One: The Return of "The Homing Card" (Michael Vincent, 2013) The Homing Card (Francis Carlyle, Paul Vigil, Jimmy Grippo, 2014) Slow Motion Card to Pocket (Tom Rose, 2018)	1947	Stars of Magic (Vol. 4 No. 2)	61	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Single Card Cards / Principles / Miscalling
Jimmy Grippo	The Grippo Grab	picking off the pip with sucker element		1949	Controlled Miracles	18	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Single Card / Picking Off the Pip
Harlan Tarbell, Jimmy Grippo	The Card Through Handkerchief	No. 148	Also published here Card Through a Handkerchief (Jimmy Grippo, 1981)	1950	Scarne on Card Tricks	287	Cards / Principles / Key Card / Key Card Placements Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / With Other Objects / Handkerchief
Frank Joglar	Backstage	on Jerry Lester, Ormond McGill, Phil Thomas, Ade Duval, Clayton Rawson, Jay Marshall, Richard Himber, John Mulholland, Dariel Fitzkee, Larry Arcuri, Cliff Green, Zina Bennett, Walter Hampden, Art Linkletter, Gali Gali, Arnold Furst, Milo, Von Arx, Grover George Jimmy Grippo and more In Print Keith Clark Lloyd Jones Mail Dept. News and Notes New York Conclave Use What You Read Seen Or Heard Recommended Jottings		Apr. 1951	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 8 No. 11)	778	Articles / Columns
Bruce Elliott	The Back Room	on Milbourne Christopher, Lee Noble, Don Alan, Carl Rosini, George Starke, Stars of Magic, Orson Welles, Cy Endfield, Charlie Miller, Jimmy Grippo, Cardini		Jan. 1952	The Phoenix (Issue 246)	985	Articles / Columns
Paul Curry	Chapter Five: The New Conjurers	on Milbourne Christopher, amateur magicians, famous actors, authors and other celebrities, who did magic, John Scarne, Clayton Rawson, Jimmy Grippo		1965	Magician's Magic	65	Articles / Biographical Articles / Magic History
Dai Vernon	Trick With A Borrowed Deck	based on a trick shown to Vernon by Jimmy Grippo, see p. 190 for clarification of final phase	Variations A 'Borrowed' Miracle! (Gaylord E. Hill, 1972)	1971	Magick (Issue 36)	177	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Two Cards / Normal Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Facer / Different Faces
Jimmy Grippo	Clear Thru!	handkerchief put on deck and corner folded in, selection penetrates the silk	Also published here Clear Through! (Jimmy Grippo, 1942)	1972	The Living End	91	Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / With Other Objects / Handkerchief
Jimmy Grippo	Double Lift Teaser	saliva		1973	Super Subtle Card Miracles	160	Cards / Principles / Moisture Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / Double Card Handlings Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Magicians Only Gags
Erwin Schussel	Joker	medium stops before joker, repeated with medium in other room, story of an encounter between Jimmy Grippo and Dai Vernon	Related to Joker II (Michael Leach, 1977) Variations Joker III (Dr. John Nichols, 1979)	1976	Magick (Issue 169)	842	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Rough and Smooth Decks / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stop Trick / Position indicated by Spectator
Jimmy Grippo	Foreword			1978	Las Vegas Close-Up		Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Dr. John Nichols	Joker III	medium stops before joker, repeated with medium in other room, story of an encounter between Jimmy Grippo and Dai Vernon	Inspired by Joker (Erwin Schussel, 1976)	1979	Magick (Issue 224)	1118	Cards / Principles / Coding / Using Assistant Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stop Trick / Position indicated by Spectator
Jimmy Grippo	Chapter One - Card Magic	chapter intro		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	3	Articles / Articles
Jimmy Grippo	Tricks Utilizing the Overhand Shuffle			1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	7	Articles / Articles
Jimmy Grippo	The Spelling Bee	spelling to a named card, verbal force a la equivoque		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	7	Cards / Sleights / Force / Without Cards Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Miscellaneous / Impromptu
Jimmy Grippo	Will It	five cards are tabled face-up and one mentally selected, cards are shuffled back and spectator counts cards from top according to value of thought of card and finds the card		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	8	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Card(s) at A Number(Numbers) Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / limited Choice Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Single Card
Jimmy Grippo	The Riffle Shuffle	with brief comments on how to control top or bottom cards		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	10	Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / Real
Jimmy Grippo	Misdirection	comments on misdirection, example of stealing a ball from vest		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	12	Ball / Billiard Ball / Sleights / Production & Appearance Articles / Theory & Essays
Jimmy Grippo	The Turn About Cards	faced deck, one phase		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	14	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Faced Deck
Jimmy Grippo	The Card Detective	card is placed face up inside the deck next to selection		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	19	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stabbing Routines / Magic Thrust & Variations
Jimmy Grippo	A Rising Card	with variation to show card in the center at the end, card clings to first finger		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	20	Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Rising Card(s) / Impromptu
Jimmy Grippo	A Vested Interest	signed card ends up in performer's upper vest pocket, no palm handling		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	22	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Single Card
Jimmy Grippo	A Phenomenal Memory	selection is shuffled in the deck and deck spread face-up, spectator places selection at different position while performer looks away, then card is found		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	23	Cards / Effect Themes / Super-Senses / Memory / Move-A-Card
Jimmy Grippo	Touch to the Nth Degree	pocketed deck, performer divines card by touch and eventually finds selection		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	24	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Single Card Cards / Effect Themes / Super-Senses / Sense of Touch / Card Identity
Jimmy Grippo	The Double Lift			1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	26	Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / Top / Break
Jimmy Grippo	The Ambitious Card	three phases		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	28	Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Ambitious Card Theme / Routines
Jimmy Grippo	Your Number?	counting to named number to show the card is not there, counting again selection lies at position		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	29	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Card(s) at A Number(Numbers)
Jimmy Grippo	In Reverse	card found reversed in the deck		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	30	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Simple Card Turnovers
Jimmy Grippo	Other Methods of Reversing a Card			1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	31	Cards / Sleights / Reverses / More for One Card or a few Cards / Active
Jimmy Grippo	Follow the Leader	not Follow the Leader, card chosen in deck is found reversed, using two decks		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	32	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Miscellaneous
Jimmy Grippo	Right About Face	five cards are removed and one mentally selected, cards placed reversed in the deck and when card is name it turns over and other four cards remain reversed		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	33	Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / Princess Card Trick (Five Cards) Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Simple Card Turnovers
Jimmy Grippo	The Glide			1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	38	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Glide
Jimmy Grippo	The Key Card			1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	45	Cards / Principles / Key Card / General Comments
Jimmy Grippo	The Cards to the Pocket	ten cards		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	59	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Multiple Cards / Up the Sleeve type
Jimmy Grippo	The Mindreader			1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	62	Cards / Principles / Key Card / Distant Key Card Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous
Jimmy Grippo	An Uncanny Coincidence	finding four-of-a-kind by dealing and spectator stops		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	65	Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Spectator finds four of a kind Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Only for Special Stacks / Eight Kings
Jimmy Grippo	Chapter II - Magic with Coins	chapter intro		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	72	Articles / Articles
Jimmy Grippo	To Pass a Coin Invisibly From One Hand to the Other	first one coin then up to four coins, four phases, through table as climax		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	77	Coin / Gaffed / Sticky Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Table / All at once Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Hand to Hand / Normal
Jimmy Grippo	A Magical Transmigration	two phases, two and four coins, placing coins in closed hands and on closed fists		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	83	Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Hand to Hand / Normal
Jimmy Grippo	A "Spiritualistic" Effect	coin production		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	86	Coin / Sleights / Sleeving Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish with Reproduction Routines / Bare Handed
Jimmy Grippo	Dollar to Halves	Dollar changes into two Half Dollars and back		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	90	Coin / Effect Themes / Splitting Currency & Fusions
Jimmy Grippo	A Version of the Downs Palm	turning hand while hiding coins		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	96	Coin / Sleights / Hiding Coins - Display Coin / Sleights / Palming / Palm Positions
Jimmy Grippo	Golf Balls			1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	99	Ball / Billiard Ball / General Comments
Jimmy Grippo	The Multiplying Golf Balls			1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	104	Ball / Billiard Ball / Routines / With Shell
Jimmy Grippo	Chapter Four - Magic with Cigarettes			1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	110	Cigarette & Cigar / General Comments
Jimmy Grippo	Cigarette Produced from a Toy Purse			1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	117	Cigarette & Cigar / Purse Routine Cigarette & Cigar / Appearance & Production / Miscellaneous
Jimmy Grippo	The Magnetized Cigarette	cigarette balanced on match apparently reacts to magnetism of finger		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	118	Cigarette & Cigar / Animation
Jimmy Grippo	Cigarette Produced from Sleeve	from elbow		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	119	Cigarette & Cigar / Appearance & Production / Production & Appearance (Manipulative)
Jimmy Grippo	A Penny Changed to a Cigarette			1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	119	Cigarette & Cigar / Transformation Coin / Effect Themes / Transformation / Transformation Coin - Object
Jimmy Grippo	Chapter Five - Thimbles			1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	123	Thimble / Miscellaneous
Jimmy Grippo	The Production of Eight Thimbles	"One on each of the fingers of both hands", with holder		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	125	Thimble / Routines
Jimmy Grippo	Card Through a Handkerchief		Also published here The Card Through Handkerchief (Harlan Tarbell, Jimmy Grippo, 1950)	1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	158	Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Principles / Key Card / Key Card Placements Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / With Other Objects / Handkerchief
	Chapter Nine - Photo Section	photos of Jimmy Grippo		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	177	Articles / Articles
Jimmy Grippo	A Word About Variation	on variation in method		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	204	Cards / Principles / Theory & Essays
Jimmy Grippo	A Favorite of Jay Ose	Charlier cut to straighten deck		1981	The Magic of Jimmy Grippo	217	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Slop Shuffles
Richard Mark	Brainstorm	on Bascom Jones, Stanley Jaks, Jimmy Grippo, Maurice Fogel		June 1994	Vibrations (Vol. 16 No. 12)	5	Articles / Columns
Juan Tamariz, Moe Seidenstein, Jimmy Grippo	A Phenomenal Memory	performer apparently remembers a whole spread and thus identifies a chosen card that has been moved from its position		1995	Card College — Volume 1	145	Cards / Principles / Key Card / Key Card Placements Cards / Effect Themes / Super-Senses / Memory / Move-A-Card
Francis Carlyle, Philippe Socrate, Jimmy Grippo, Roberto Giobbi	Homing Card Plus	extension with deck to pocket	Inspired by Homing Card (Francis Carlyle, 1947) Related to Empty Pocket - Gag Line (Roberto Giobbi, Gabi Pareras, 2024) Variations The Structural Problem of the Homing Card Plus (Rico Weeland, 2022)	1996	Card College — Volume 2	288	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Single Card Cards / Principles / Miscalling
Jimmy Grippo	Grippo's Wish	kind of Slydini's Silks with one silk		1996	The Art of Astonishment — Book 1 (Issue Astonishing Friends)	257	Silk & Handkerchief / Knot Effects / Vanish
Richard Mark	Chapter Two	on Stanley Jaks and Jimmy Grippo		2000	Mind Warp	29	Articles / Articles
	Finally	Jimmy Grippo photograph		Nov. 2008	MAGIC (Vol. 18 No. 3)	122	Articles / Columns
Roberto Giobbi, Jimmy Grippo	Magic and Gambling	Grippo's answer why he did not gamble	Related to Frank Garcia's "Marked Cards and Loaded Dice" p.18	2010	Secret Agenda (Issue Apr 18)	119	Articles / Articles
Francis Carlyle, Eric Evans	The Homing Circle		Inspired by Homing Card Plus (Francis Carlyle, Philippe Socrate, Jimmy Grippo, 1996)	2012	53 Friends	23	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Single Card
Francis Carlyle, Paul Vigil, Jimmy Grippo	The Homing Card		Inspired by Homing Card (Francis Carlyle, 1947)	2014	Classic Fantastic	64	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Single Card
Jimmy Grippo	Grippo's Out-jog Pip Concealment	hiding the face of an outjogged card with a bevel	Related to "The Magic of Francis Carlyle"	2014	Classic Fantastic	69	Cards / Sleights / False Display / Hiding Surfaces Cards / Principles / Duplicates / Pseudo & Impromptu Duplicate
Jimmy Grippo, Johnny Thompson	Grippo's Card to Envelope	sealed empty envelope is passed through deck, then signed selection is found inside, duplicate or divided card (see reference), originally done with pocket index by Grippo	Related to Card Vanish Suggestion (Jamy Ian Swiss, 2018) Card Lapping (Alexander Boyce, 2021)	2018	The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 2)	119	Cards / Principles / Card Index Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Divided Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Envelope(s)
Jamy Ian Swiss	Card Vanish Suggestion	using gaff instead of duplicate for clean vanish	Related to Grippo's Card to Envelope (Jimmy Grippo, Johnny Thompson, 2018)	2018	The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 2)	125	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Divided Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Single Card
Alexander Boyce	Card Lapping	after selection is signed and apparently lost, Slydini-inspired	Related to Grippo's Card to Envelope (Jimmy Grippo, Johnny Thompson, 2018)	2021	A Short Booklet	8	Cards / Sleights / Lapping / Top Cards
Rico Weeland	The Structural Problem of the Homing Card Plus	"(and Alternate Endings)"	Inspired by Homing Card Plus (Francis Carlyle, Philippe Socrate, Jimmy Grippo, Roberto Giobbi, 1996)	Mar. 2022	The Hermit (Vol. 1 No. 3)	132	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Single Card
Roberto Giobbi, Gabi Pareras	Empty Pocket - Gag Line	gag line by Gabi Pareras, and application to Homing Card routine	Related to Homing Card Plus (Francis Carlyle, Philippe Socrate, Jimmy Grippo, Roberto Giobbi, 1996)	2024	Unexpected Agenda (Issue Jan 9)	21	Cards / Sleights / Cloths and Cards / Loading the Pocket for later discovery

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