Mendoza, John F.

Magazine

1981
Written by John F. Mendoza
Work of Don England

150 pages (Paperback), 6 Issues, published by Thinkers' Press
Illustrated with drawings by Bob Buck
Language: English

53 entries

This publication has been reviewed by

Walt Lees (Pabular, Vol. 6 No. 10, Oct. 1980, p. 929)

Don England's T.K.O.'s (written by John F. Mendoza, work of Don England, 1981)
Creators	Title	Comments & References		Issue	Year	Page	AA	Categories
Edward Marlo	Foreword				1981	1		Articles / Intros & Epilogues
John F. Mendoza	Introduction				1981	3		Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Bob Longe	Preface				1981	4		Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Don England	After Words				1981	5		Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Bob Longe	Publisher's Comments				1981	6		Articles / Intros & Epilogues
	Magic Publications	on "The Sorcerer's Eyes"			1981	8		Articles / Articles
Don England	Visual Retention Color Change	white on white principle		1 Clubs	1981	1		Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Single Card / Front
Don England	Visual Retention Change #2		Inspired by The Miller(?) Change (Charlie Miller, John F. Mendoza, The Book of John, 1978)	1 Clubs	1981	2		Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Single Card / Front Cards / Sleights / Color Change / Out-jogged
Don England	The Flip Up Move			1 Clubs	1981	5		Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / One-Handed
Allan Ackerman	Short All-Backs Routine	Quick 3-Way	Related to Almost Like Everywhere and Nowhere (Allan Ackerman, Card Theater, 2019) also in: Almost Like Everywhere and Nowhere (All In — Volume 1, 2024) Variations Evolution (Michael Powers, Top Secret Stuff, 1990)	1 Clubs	1981	7		Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Quick Three-Way Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / All backs / Packet
Allan Ackerman, Wes Emberg	Bottom-up Diminishing Lift Sequence		Also published here Bottom-up Diminishing Lift Sequence (Allan Ackerman, Wes Emberg, Card Theater, 2019) also in: Bottom-up Diminishing Lift Sequence (Allan Ackerman, Wes Emberg, All In — Volume 1, 2024)	1 Clubs	1981	8		Cards / Sleights / False Display / All alike
Allan Ackerman	Kelly Bottom Placement Center Load	loading a card into the center		1 Clubs	1981	11		Cards / Sleights / Transfers / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Ovette Master Move (Kelly Bottom Placement)
Don England	Easy One Hand Triple Cut			1 Clubs	1981	13		Cards / Sleights / Cuts / Real Cuts / One Handed Cuts
Don England	Phase 51	deck vanish to pocket	Variations Phase 51 - Revisited and in Color (Don England, Don England's Paradox, 2001) P-51, This Time the Cards are on the Table! (Don England, Don England's Paradox, 2001) … and 1 more	1 Clubs	1981	15		Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Single Card
Don England	Very Simple Triumph		Inspired by Logical Faced Triumph (Edward Marlo, Marlo's Magazine — Volume 1, 1976) Related to Logical Faced Triumph (Edward Marlo, Marlo's Magazine — Volume 1, 1976)	1 Clubs	1981	19		Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Classic Effect (with or without selections)
Don England	Inserting a Card into a Break			1 Clubs	1981	20		Cards / Sleights / Break / Break Finesses Cards / Sleights / Controls / Insertions
Edward Marlo	Triumph Reveal Finesse	in two steps		1 Clubs	1981	20		Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Displays & Finesses
Don England	Very Simple R/B Triumph	red-black separation climax		1 Clubs	1981	21		Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / As a Climax Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Classic Effect (with or without selections) Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Effect Variations
Don England	Folds Flat For Packing	reverse of "Dehydrated Deck"	Inspired by The Dehydrated Deck (Paul Harris, Paul Harris Reveals Some Of His Most Intimate Secrets, 1976) also in: The Dehydrated Deck (The Art of Astonishment — Book 1, 1996)	1 Clubs	1981	24		Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Things happen to the whole deck
Don England	Deck Lapping from Case			1 Clubs	1981	25		Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Card Case Cards / Sleights / Lapping / Isolated Cards
Don England	One Shuffle Rollover Aces		Inspired by Rollover Aces (Derek Dingle, The Complete Works of Derek Dingle, 1982)	1 Clubs	1981	27		Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Rollover Aces
Don England	Down the Elevator and Up the Ladder	all cards transform	Inspired by Blanks - Selections - Aces (Allan Ackerman, Here's My Card, 1978) Variance Variant (Allan Ackerman, Here's My Card, 1978) Related to Variance Variant (Allan Ackerman, Here's My Card, 1978) Blanks - Selections - Aces (Allan Ackerman, Here's My Card, 1978)	1 Clubs	1981	32		Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Multiple Cards Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Ambitious Card Theme / Small Packet Sequences & "Ambitious Classic"
Don England, Martin Gardner*	The Blink Change	streamlined version	Inspired by Wink Change (Martin Gardner, The Hierophant, 1971) also in: The "Wink" Change (Epilogue, 1974) Related to Wink Change (Martin Gardner, The Hierophant, 1971) also in: The "Wink" Change (Epilogue, 1974)	1 Clubs	1981	38		Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
Don England	Color Changing Deck	Triumph with kicker		1 Clubs	1981	41		Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Color Changing Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Effect Variations
	Corner Short Peek Force			1 Clubs	1981	42		Cards / Sleights / Force / Riffle Force / Peek & Fingertip Peek Force
Don England	Another Collectors?	Aces start underneath close-up pad	Inspired by Card Case Collectors (Allan Ackerman, Here's My Card, 1978) Collectors IV - The Skip Tracers (Larry Jennings, The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings, 1986) Related to Card Case Collectors (Allan Ackerman, Here's My Card, 1978) Collectors IV - The Skip Tracers (Larry Jennings, The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings, 1986) Variations The Kings' Holiday (James Swain, Don't Blink, 1992)	1 Clubs	1981	45		Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Collectors Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Mat Things / Miscellaneous
Don England	Seven Card Location			1 Clubs	1981	49		Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Multiple Selection Routine
	Paintbrush Change			1 Clubs	1981	51		Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
Don England	The Mysterious Case of the Open Travellers	tabled packet is underneath card case, last card inside	Variations A Bondian Collusion (Lee Freed, Facsimile*, 1996)	1 Clubs	1981	55		Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Card Case Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Open Travelers
Don England	The Upper Deck	cased deck floats underneath silk Zombie like, then vanishes from case except for selection		2 Hearts	1981	1		Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Floatation Ball / Floatation / Zombie
Don England	Long Spread	wire gimmick		2 Hearts	1981	5		Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Defying Gravity
Don England	Ever-Ready Hole Card	hole removed from pocket placed on card becomes real		2 Hearts	1981	7		Cards / Effect Themes / Topological Effects / Holes Effects
Paul Curry	Pass Switch-Out			2 Hearts	1981	10		Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Miscellaneous
Don England	Snaparoon	face card of tabled and rubber-banded deck changes, tosheroon	Variations Bonus Effect (Edward Marlo, 21st Century Card Magic, 1981) Bonus Effect (Edward Marlo, Banded Deck Effects, 1991) … and 1 more	2 Hearts	1981	12		Cards / Effect Themes / Rubber Band & Cards Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Sleights / Color Change / Tabled Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Single Card / Front Cards / Sleights / Color Change / Props
Edward Marlo	Rise Rise Rise			2 Hearts	1981	14		Cards / Sleights / Color Change / Tabled
Don England	Flashtoration	inspired by Flash Newspaper Restorations		2 Hearts	1981	17		Cards / Effect Themes / Torn & Restored / At once
Don England	10% Flashtoration	corner torn off and restored		2 Hearts	1981	25		Cards / Effect Themes / Torn & Restored / At once
Don England	Card Warped	using bill, card is not torn at the end		2 Hearts	1981	29		Cards / Effect Themes / Topological Effects / Card Warp
Edward Marlo	Linked Card Routine			2 Hearts	1981	33		Cards / Effect Themes / Topological Effects / Linking Card Effects
Don England	Cigarette Through Card			2 Hearts	1981	37		Cigarette & Cigar / Penetration Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / With Other Objects / Cigarette
Edward Marlo	Visual Retention Change			2 Hearts	1981	40		Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Miscellaneous
Don England	Red Hot Hofzinser			2 Hearts	1981	42		Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Red Hot Mama Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Transparent Card a la Hofzinser
Don England	The Zig Zag Card Trick			2 Hearts	1981	46		Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs Cards / Effect Themes / Topological Effects / Zig-Zag
Don England	England's Four the Hard Way	one of the cards signed, transformation kicker, signed card into wallet (three times)	Inspired by Solomon's "Four, the Hard Way" (Racherbaumer's Lecture Note #1)	3 Spades	1981	1		Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Twisting the Aces / Kicked Twisting the Aces Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Wallet
Edward Marlo	Bold ATFUS	deep		3 Spades	1981	2		Cards / Sleights / Switches / ATFUS & Variations
Don England	Reset Twist	combo		3 Spades	1981	4		Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Reset & Variations Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Twisting the Aces / Kicked Twisting the Aces
	End Grip Transfer			3 Spades	1981	7		Cards / Sleights / Transfers / End Grip Transfer
Don England	Twisted Hofzinser	combo		3 Spades	1981	9		Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Twisting the Aces / Kicked Twisting the Aces Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Hofzinser & Victor Ace Problem
Dai Vernon	Twisting the Aces	brief outline of Vernon's routine		3 Spades	1981	11		Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Twisting the Aces / Standard Effect
Don England	Apocalypse Now			4 Diamonds	1981	1		Coin / Effect Themes / Transformation / Spellbound & visual Changes - Routines
David Roth	Toss Switch			4 Diamonds	1981	3		Coin / Sleights / Switches / Simple Switches
Don England	Edge Grip Spellbound			4 Diamonds	1981	4		Coin / Sleights / Spellbound & visual Changes
Kenneth F. Ritz	Close-Up Color Changing Elephant	gag description		5 Joker	1981	1		Animal / Elephant

Data entered by Denis Behr, June 2014.

Don England's T.K.O.'s

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