Jinx Issue No. 1 Frequency Monthy, then weekly Publisher Ted Annemann First issue October, 1934 Final issue December 15, 1941 Total issues 151 The Jinx was a edited and published by, also its major contributor, in Waverly, New York. Jinx started in October 1934 and ran for 151 issues. Its last issue was December 15, 1941 just before Ted committed suicide. Originally put out on a monthly basis, it became a weekly publication in October of 1939. According to Dai Vernon in the Vernon Touch column, would often help out with editing the Jinx. For a short period during the lifetime of the Jinx, Ted Annemann went through what was apparently a 'hidden message' phase. In issues #10, 11, 13, and 14 (and probably many others) hidden messages could be found by looking at, usually in reverse order, the first letters of each paragraph, which were printed in larger, heavier type. (See Linking Ring, Vol. 10, October 1980, page 70). Every Jinx file has 48 pages missing as can be seen at the end of #149 and start of #150. Theodore Annemann. Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse. Download as PDF. The Jinx was a Magic Periodical edited and published by Ted Annemann. THE FREE ADOBE READER YOU CAN DOWNLOAD FROM THE ADOBE SITE. They were to be filled with another 'Jinx Extra' that was never completed. Ted, before his death, told that he wanted to reprint his ' (1928) as that 'Jinx Extra', but died before he could secure the copyright for it. It was eventually published for collectors as those missing pages by Magic Limited in the 1972. Contents • • • • • • • Notable contributions Some of the routines first published in The Jinx that would become notable include:,, and. The Fake Jinx The 'fake' Jinx was published as a spoof by and, but it outraged. Most copies were turned over to him, which he destroyed. A copy saved by (editor of ) was used by when he reproduced it in his magazine (No. 317, October 31, 1954, page 72). The Linx In the early 1930s, Annemann took out ads in some cheap magazine (Real French Capers and Real Tempting Tales). When Annemann made some disparaging remarks about in an issue of the Jinx, Hull published 'The Linx' in 1936. In the one page (and only) issue, he dug up the ads and reproduced them for all to see. New Jinx Bill Madsen published many years later, starting in the 1960s. 75th Anniversary Celebration A special 32 page new issue of Jinx created by was published in the. Contents • No. 1 October 1934 • 1 Hallucination by • 2 The Supreme East Indian Needle Feat by Ted Annemann • 3 Two Papers And A Spectator by Ted Annemann • 4 The Mystery of The Blackboard by • No. 2 November 1934 • 1 The Devil's Four Aces by Ted Annemann • 2 The Finders by • 3 Synthetic Sympathy by Ted Annemann • 3 Your Card! By Orville Meyer • 3 Wanted by Ted Annemann • 4 The Demon - Yogi - Goblin Booktest by Ted Annemann • No. 3 December 1934 • 2 A Card In Transit! () • 3 A Real Psychic Card Test (Theodore Annemann) • 3 Dead or Alive? (Theodore Annemann) • 3 The Bending Swizzle Stick (Theodore Anemann) • No. 4 January 1935 • 1 The Master of the Message • 2 Cigarette Perception () • 2 Card Box Sympathy () • 3 One of Those Things () • 4 The Twentieth Century Newspaper Test () • No. 5 February 1935 • 2 The Red and Blue Back Color Change (Theodore Annemann) • 2 With Sight Unseen () • 3 The Solution of Something To Work On • 3 The Lie Detective () • 4 A Question And The Answer (Theodore Annemann) • 4 A Neat Publicity Trick () • No. 6 March 1935 • 2 Impromptu Frame Ups (Theodore Annemann) • 3 The Astral Shirt (Theodore Annemann) • 3 The Card That Isn't! () • 4 Two Mind Reading Publicity Effects (Theodore Annemann) • No. 7 April 1935 • 2 The 'ELM' Card Change () • 2 The Question For The Month • 2 A Practical Card Code (Orville Wayne Meyer) • 3 The New Nightmare Effect (Theodore Annemann) • 4 The Lemon And The Dollar () • No. 8 May 1935 • 30 An Improvement In La Carte (Theodore Annemann) • 30 The Astral Shirt Again! () • 31 Thought Rays (Dr. Duncanson) • 31 Tom Bowyer's Publicity Trick • 32 The Jinx Five-Foot Shelf Of Magic • 32 Transient Money () • No. 9 June 1935 • 34 The Modernized Reading (Theodore Annemann) • 34 The Renovated Sphinx Card Trick (Eddie Clever) • 35 A Matter Of Policy (Theodore Annemann) • 36 • The Jinx Summer Extra 1935 • 38 Editor Speaking • 39 A Flash Ribbon Restoration (John Bays) • 40 Slate Immortality (Robert Parrish) • 40 Telepathy Of The Cuff (Robert Parrish) • 41 Horrors!!!
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