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He then made the same deal with Bill Larsen Sr. for [[Genii]]. Bill promised total editorial Freedom and Magicana started running inside of Genii beginning in Vol. 12, N° 5, January 1948 issue. | He then made the same deal with Bill Larsen Sr. for [[Genii]]. Bill promised total editorial Freedom and Magicana started running inside of Genii beginning in Vol. 12, N° 5, January 1948 issue. | ||
| − | [[Charlie Miller]] picked up the editing duties, also inside of Genii (as well as the Intermission column) | + | [[Charlie Miller]] picked up the editing duties, also inside of Genii (as well as the Intermission column) starting on November 1964 calling it the "New Series". Magicana continued virtually uninterrupted until April 1978. This was the last of the "New Series", which was numbered #154. A number of Charlie's later columns were ghosted by Elizabeth Wilson (wife of [[Ron Wilson]]) and [[Jules Lenier]] when Charlie was off on cruise ships. |
| − | [[Tony Giorgio]] was the last editor of Magicana when Bill finally requested that Magicana be retired after 52 years of publication on August 1997. | + | The column had a two year hiatus during 1979 and 1980, when January 1981 saw the return of Magician as a column format (it was no longer numbered or considered a "magazine within a magazine".) From 1981 till 1987 Charlie's writings continued on a more or less regular basis, ghosted at various times by others, including [[James Patton]] and [[Johnny Thompson]]. |
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| + | Beginning with February, 1989 issue [[James Patton]] officially took over the duties of the Magicana section within Genii. [[Tony Giorgio]] was the last editor of Magicana when Bill finally requested that Magicana be retired after 52 years of publication on August 1997. | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
Revision as of 18:21, 2 February 2009
For other uses, see Magicana (disambiguation).
Magicana was a magic newsletter started by Bill Woodfield around 1946 as a "A Trade Paper for Magicians" when he was 18 at the encouragement of Walter Gibson, Bill Larsen Sr. and Charlie Miller.
The first two issues of Magicana were published as a newsletter (four pages) of 1,500 each on May and June in 1946. They contained tricks, news and reviews.
The Conjurors' Magazine offered to publish his newsletter, beginning with their Vol 3. no. 7 Sept. 1947 issue, with complete editorial freedom inside to make Magicana "A Magazine Within a Magazine". That was until he gave a friend of the magazine a bad review.
He then made the same deal with Bill Larsen Sr. for Genii. Bill promised total editorial Freedom and Magicana started running inside of Genii beginning in Vol. 12, N° 5, January 1948 issue.
Charlie Miller picked up the editing duties, also inside of Genii (as well as the Intermission column) starting on November 1964 calling it the "New Series". Magicana continued virtually uninterrupted until April 1978. This was the last of the "New Series", which was numbered #154. A number of Charlie's later columns were ghosted by Elizabeth Wilson (wife of Ron Wilson) and Jules Lenier when Charlie was off on cruise ships.
The column had a two year hiatus during 1979 and 1980, when January 1981 saw the return of Magician as a column format (it was no longer numbered or considered a "magazine within a magazine".) From 1981 till 1987 Charlie's writings continued on a more or less regular basis, ghosted at various times by others, including James Patton and Johnny Thompson.
Beginning with February, 1989 issue James Patton officially took over the duties of the Magicana section within Genii. Tony Giorgio was the last editor of Magicana when Bill finally requested that Magicana be retired after 52 years of publication on August 1997.
References
- Dariel Fitzkee's review in Genii, Vol. 10, N°10, June 1946, page 333.
- Genii September 1997 page 12 - Bill Woodfield's letter to the editor.
- New Phoenix, page 93
