Magicomedy

A serious look at some humorous magic

Book
1981
Written by Mike Caveney
Work of Mike Caveney
171 pages (Hardcover), published by Magical Publications
Illustrated with drawings by Eric C. Lewis
Language: English
28 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page AA Categories
David Copperfield* Introduction
6
Mike Caveney Foreword
8
Mike Caveney Magician's Rules quoting from Richard Neve's "Tricks", 1716
 		10
Mike Caveney Folding Money 32 pennies should travel from a purse into a tube, instead they vanish from the purse and in the tube a Dollar is found, actually too big to fit inside
 		13
Mike Caveney Purse Switch
16
Mike Caveney 3:32 two coins travel under one hand, then one coin and eventually the last coin vanishes, using "The Flick"
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Inspired by
 21
Coin Vanish on Table lapping, sound effect from under table
 		26
Mike Caveney, Dick Zimmerman Cents of Touch marked penny is lost and found in a bag of pennies
 		27
Mike Caveney One in a Million stabbed prediction of two cards
 		33
Mike Caveney Half a Light torn and restored match
 		37
Mike Caveney, Duke Stern The Benson Plunger with a plunger (suggested by Duke Stern), four phases, jumbo pill as climax
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Inspired by
Related to
 46
Mike Caveney A Bloody Prediction murder story, prediction of a stabbing wound, comedy routine
 		57
Mike Caveney Bent Spoons two spoons, one held wrapped in a napkin, the other one visibly
 		63
Mike Caveney Thumb Tips for M.C.'s tip for M.C.'s
 		71
Mike Caveney Comedy Load Bag fake and real chicken are produced from spectator's coat
 		73
Mike Caveney The Homing Card Comes Home four jumbo cards turn into blank cards on by one
 		77
Mike Caveney Tearable Times lighted candle appears from rolled up newspaper, newspaper is then torn, partially burnt and finally restored again
 		85
Mike Caveney Club Soda deck vanish under handkerchief, bottle appears from under with selection inside
 		95
Mike Caveney Signed Bill in Cigar
Variations
 103
Mike Caveney Thimble Act 1965-1971
115
Mike Caveney Thimble Holders
118
Mike Caveney Temporary Parking Zone
119
Mike Caveney The Appearing Jumping Rising Vanishing and Reappearing Thimble
121
Mike Caveney The Perpetual Pinocchio Thimble endless thimble production, with long thimble as a climax
 		127
Mike Caveney The Thimble Bag multiple production of thimbles from a empty bottomless bag
 		130
Mike Caveney The Giant Thimble Production
Related to
 140
Michael Weber, Mike Caveney, Bill Taylor The Vacuum Cleaner Illusion woman is transported from a box into a bag through the tube of a vacuum cleaner
 		151
Mike Caveney The Substitution Barrel substitution trunk with a barrel
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Data entered by Lorenz Schär, December 2015.