As a magician I am always impressed by people who can do great tricks, however as an entertainer I am in awe of the magician who can turn those tricks into a strong act. As a magician I was lucky enough to have had three wonderful mentors in my formative years, they were Ken Brooke, […]
Columnist: Billy McComb William Reminisces It was somebody like Goldin who was greatly shaken during a sally forth into the audience to have an amateur magician attract his attention. He had, up his coat, the amateur said, a large duck. He thought it would be nice for Goldin to abstract the duck and the audience […]
Columnist: Billy McComb As far as any lay audience is concerned, a magician is a man who takes a rabbit from a hat … the ultimate identification. Now, how would you like to walk onto a stage with a newspaper in your hand and a top hat on your head, go straight to a thin-topped […]
Columnist: Billy McComb The Travelling Card A small scrap of a torn press cutting brought back a whole host of memories. It simply said that Private Eugene Delbert Hill, aged 35, had received a court martial sentence of two years hard labour for deserting from the U.S. Army in 1945. I remember Donna Delbert, as […]
Columnist: Billy McComb This is one of those potty ideas we all get. Then we spend ages trying to get the darned thing to work. In this case, I’m happy to say, the laugh it gets makes it worthwhile. This is what I wanted to do. I wanted to work a yo-yo up and down […]
Columnist: Billy McComb The Five Rings of William After a season of working the Rings “as written,” I decided that the same effect could be obtained with five rings as with eight or nine or any greater number. Bob Harbin disagrees with me. Even so! For those of you who are still interested, the rings […]
Columnist: Billy McComb The Egg in the Magazine I showed this effect for the first time in a lecture in Pittsburgh in 1955. There’s a lot to recommend it because without a shadow of doubt, the Egg in the Newspaper means more than a little to the lay audience. They recognise a broken egg is […]
Columnist: Billy McComb Necessity Is The Mother This item is actually two, but, as they both have to do with the same trick, I have lumped them together. A favorite of mine during my long early career as a “semi-pro” in Northern Ireland was the Rising Cards. My Jumbo mechanical deck, made by Willmann, I […]
Columnist: Billy McComb Impromptu Hat Coils I suppose I must have been around eleven when I first saw the phenomena I am about to relate. Edgar Benyon performed a massive production from a bowler hat which one could see and borrow in those days. Back-stage, a minion staggered in with a huge armful of toilet […]
Columnist: Billy McComb Extension to ‘Miko’ It was a typical day in the Magic Inc. store. De Yip Louie was washing his chicken, Jay Marshall was delivering obscenities to the printing machine and Frances was writing a book, cooking a meal, minding the store and stock-taking. It was 1966 and I was in the Seventh […]
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