The September 2025 of Ye Olde Magic Mag is HERE!

The September 2025 issue of Ye Olde Magic Mag (Vol. 11 #4), is now available for purchase!

Who was “Signor Blitz”? We finally correct the magical record.
We have visited important magic history conferences in Germany and England, and you will be able to breath in some of the exciting presentations.
Did you know how Kio performed his “photo miracle” from the 1950s to mid-70’s?

This issue is 60 pages long and is available both in digital and in print format (only a handful of individually signed and numbered print copies exist: first come, first served).

• Rowan Gibbs, author of a comprehensive study on Bartolomeo Bosco and many other performers who used that name, presents a careful biographical study on Signor Blitz, a popular illusionist, ventriloquist and entertainer, finally revealing his birth place and his real name, finally correcting the magical record!
• The Museum Bellachini in Hamburg, Germany, is currently presenting an exhibition dedicated to Kalanag, the influential post-war German magician, and we present a review of the exhibition and of its vernissage by Manfred Jürgens, with numerous photos to help you live part of the experience.
• Jan Isenbart, popular author of an important magical blog, reports on the recent 32nd German Symposium on Magic History, with more details than usual on many lectures.
• Jan then returns with a historical article that reveals, after a careful investigation of the few surviving records, how a magic trick by the great Russian illusionist Kio worked, with some hitherto unpublished images.
• Pietro Micheli from Italy flew all the way to London to attend The Magic Circle History Day and his review is a nice reminder of this great event, from last June.
• Many pages are dedicate to magic auctions of the last three months, presenting the most unusual magical items that have gone under the hammer in our regular Auction Action column, with reviews of the last auctions of the collections of Ken Klosterman and of more rare and unusual magic ephemera, including Tommy Cooper‘s cloack.
• Many books are reviewed in depth in this issue, including:
  • Kalanag – Hinter den Kulissen von Simsalabim
  • S.W. Erdnase: Another View
  • Julius Laschott and his Dissolving Views
  • Todd Karr’s Bibliography of Magic
  • Magic Metamorphosis
• Our editor, Marco Pusterla, presents a couple of shorter stories and magic research in the beloved Chewing the (Magic) Fat column, with new information on magic of the past.

More information on https://yeoldemagicmag.com/downloads/vol-11-issue-4