Derek Lever's Magic Magazine from 1979-1983 is now available on CD-ROM! 

Here on this one disc is the entire Derek Lever Magic Mag. The magazine started in October 1979 and the final issue was published in August 1983. When Derek Lever launched Magic Mag he felt that the entire magic scene had become stagnant and uninteresting and once the magazine was launched he was not afraid of having a dig at anyone and everyone. It was an outspoken magazine with some top professional contributors such as: Simon Lovell, Trevor Lewis, David Howarth, Tommy Copper, Terry Seabrooke and Billy McComb. It contains hundreds of professional effects and routines, articles, hints and tips for everyone with an interest in becoming a working professional. 

This CD-Rom will play on a Mac or PC and comes complete with Adobe Acrobat Reader and has its own hypertext linked index so that you can find the tricks and articles that you want to read.

Read Todd Karr's Excellent Article

The Magic Wand has been painstakingly scanned and put on three CDRoms and is supplied together with an introductory leaflet by Todd Karr. The Digital Magic Wand (which can be enjoyed on PC or Mac) has been long awaited and has taken many, many months of careful work. Without doubt The Magic Wand, which ran for 47 years, is the most important, most significant and most interesting of all the magic magazines to be published during the last century in Britain. As Todd Karr says in his wonderful introduction to The Digital Magic Wand, "A wave of the wand and you will be transported into a world of secrets long hidden away. Thanks to digital magic, you have the power at your fingertips to open the doors of bygone magicians and lost secrets. Caverns of information await you: articles by the masters, profiles on the top practitioners, historical research and effects in every realm of conjuring."

Published from 1900 to 1920 - 177 issues all on one CD Rom.

Magic was a monthly magazine produced and edited by Ellis Stanyon. It was first published in October 1900 and ran for 177 issues with a break during the 1914 -18 war and the final issue was published in June 1920. Ellis Stanyon was a noted magic
dealer, author and publisher and in the first issue of Magic he set out his intention
which was to‚ 'popularise the Art of Sleight of Hand'.

Stanyon's original lessons in magic were published in each issue and formed a significant course of magical instruction. Magic featured close-up effects, routines, stage and parlour magic including some of the great classic effects and each issue contained much of interest to magic enthusiasts. Stanyon delighted in reviewing other performer's acts and provided his own explanations for the methods used for the tricks he saw. This upset several professional performers but delighted his readers. A year's subscription to Magic was just 5/6d which was roughly 25 pence or about 37 cents: an amazing magical bargain now available here in digital format for use on PC or Mac computers. This disc comes complete with Adobe Acrobat and is fully searchable.

Here on one CD-Rom is the entire five years of The Magic Magazine published by Max Andrews. The first issue appeared in April 1952 and the final issue on September 1956. This was one of Britain's leading magazines and, although it was a house magazine for Max Andrews' Vampire Magic business, it was packed with outstanding magical contributions from the leading magical creators of that exciting period.

Here on this disc you will find all 1,492 pages of the magazine and you can flip from page to page with great ease. Amongst the many contributors are George Blake, Eddie Joseph, Robert Harbin, Ken Brooke, Richard Himber. Eric P Wilson and Hank Vermeyden. A booklet accompanies this CD-Rom. and can be found inside the CD case. Max Andrews' Magic Magazine is copyright Martin Breese, London 2001.

The digital version of Pabular Magazine - long considered to be one of the finest magazines of close-up magic ever - is now, by arrangement with the original publisher Nick Bolton, available from Martin Breese.

It was published by Nick Bolton with contributions and art direction from Eric Mason. The editors were Fred Robinson, Walt Lees and Stephen Tucker. The first effect in the magazine was by Roy Walton and contributors include: Jack Avis, Gaeton Bloom, John Carney, Tony Corinda, Ted Danson, Will Dexter, Bob Driebeek, Shiv Duggal, Peter Duffie, Alex Elmsley, Dominique Duvivier, Cy Endfield, Bob Farmer, Flip, Piet Forton, Roberto Giobbi, Ray Grismer, Paul Hallas, Steve Hamilton, Francis Haxton, Jim Hooper, Basil Horwitz, Charles Hudson, Gentleman Jack, Larry Jennings, Rick Johnsson, Peter Kane, Fred Kaps, Gerald Kosky, Simon Lovell, Trevor Lewis, Ed Marlo, Bob Ostin, Pat Page, Oscar Pladek, John Ramsay, Bob Read, Rovi, Sam Schwartz, Al Smith, Hans Trixer, Stephen Tucker, Dai Vernon and Tommy Wonder. Some contributors had one man issues and these include: Roy Walton (2 issues), Phil Goldstein (3 issues), Gordon Bruce, David Carre, Walt Lees and Barrie Richardson.

Anyone with a PC or Mac computer can view every single page of the magazine. Any page or the entire magazine can be printed out.

Illustrations and text can be enlarged for easy viewing and a searchable index, created by Ian Keeble consisting of 74 detailed pages (believe it or not) can be used to take you in seconds to any trick or effect that you want. Hundreds of copies of this long-awaited CD-Rom have already been sold. At the Blackpool Convention almost everyone was enquiring when this CD-Rom would be released. And now it is ready and on sale. All 1,311 pages of Pabular Magazine can be yours now for just £31.75/$45 post free anywhere in the world.

"Like Martin Breese's previous digital releases (Pentagram and Max Andrews Magic) this is a veritable snip at the price. Even if you're not a fan of digital media (ebooks), for this money you simply cannot go wrong. Highly recommended - Peter Duffie, Magicweek Magazine"

Comment by Mike Powers: "I just received the CD Rom Pabular. Holy smokes! There are over 1400 pages, completely indexed by trick, trick type, author etc. It's nicely linked so you can just click on the item and go directly there. The list of contributors is phenomenal. I've just begun to wade in ... "

The Complete Pentagram Magazine on a CD Rom.

At last the legendary Pentagram Magazine, edited by Peter Warlock, is available in its entirety on CDRom.  It features superb magic from Alex Elmsley, Robert Harbin, Fred Kaps, Stewart James, Dai Vernon, Al Koran, Roy Walton, Arthur Carter, Leslie May, Charles Cameron, Ron Baillie, Jack Avis, Gus Southall, Edmund Rowland, Ed Marlo, Graham Adams and many others. 

The entire magazine can be loaded on to your PC or MAC and read in Adobe Acrobat.  A free copy of Acrobat is included on the disc.  Every trick can be accessed and every keyword can be searched for.  Each effect is automatically linked to the detailed index and one press of your mouse will take you to your selected effect.  Now at last the Pentagram is within reach of all those who enjoy great magic.

"The Digital Pentagram arrived this morning. Thank you so much for sending it. I think it's wonderful. A tremendous research tool. Congratulations for another terrific product." - Peter Duffie, Scotland

"I just received the Digital Pentagram - well worth the money and great return of post service will use your site again! Thanks. - Chris Davies, South Wales.

This CD-ROM contains all three volumes of the classic Spell-binder magazine. There are over 700 pages of close up magazine edited by Stephen Tucker. Over 50 contributors provided effects and there are a total of 354 effects within the three volumes.

The list of contributors is overwhelming with the very best of the close up workers from around providing brilliant material which editor Stephen Tucker badgered them into contributing. David Britland alone contributed 40 items, there were 6 new effects from Basil Horwitz, 4 from Jerry Sadowitz, 2 from Gazzo, 5 from Gordon Bruce, 3 from Roy Walton,. To continue the list: 9 from Phil Goldstein, 12 from Reinhard Muller, 5 from Al Smith 2 from Bobby Bernard, 4 from Harvey Rosenthal, 7 from Ian Land, 12 from Paul Brignal, 7 from Peter Duffie, 6 from Roger Curzon, 6 from Shiv Duggal, 7 from Wayne Dobson and 109 from Stephen Tucker.

Other distinguished contributors include: Alex East, Bill Worsley, Colin Linn, Daniel Kalanofski, Dave Hambly, David Austin, David Robertson, Derek Robbins, Don Allessadnro Riario-Sforza, Dr Peter Moffat, Joe Dignam, John Fealey, John McClements, Mark Lee, Mark Russell, Martin Breese, Pascal Monmoine, Roger Crosthwaite, Simon Whitby, Steven Hamilton, Ted Lesley, Tim Gan (who under a new name was behind the famous pop group, Bomb the Base), Walt Lees and many more.

Spell-Binder Magazine was one of the most radical and different close up magazines of the 1980's and it was illustrated throughout by Stephen Tucker and along with Pabular was considered to be an important contribution to the art of close up magic in Britain. The magazine was produced mainly during the period when Stephen Tucker and David Britland worked at the Magic Lounge which was a studio I ran in London for several years. The Spell-Binder magazine has been scanned from the original issues most of which are now unobtainable.

Here is a 157-page Slydini book on CD Rom.  The book is out of print and not all that easy to find and Houdini Picture Corporation has put it on CD Rom at a reasonable price.  Everything in the book is here including over 200 photographs to help guide any magician through each effect.   I think the photographs could have been better scanned but apart from that this CD Rom is useful and valuable to all Slydini enthusiasts. 

One of our major new releases is the Digital Wizard Magazine. The Wizard Magazine was published in 1947 by George Armstrong the publisher of The Magic Wand. There were a total of 95 issues and it terminated in July 1956. The magazine covered general magic and had a wide range of contributors who were mainly British. Just a few of the contributors were George Arrowsmith, Ken Brooke, Arthur Carter, Cedric, Chandhu, Edward Dexter, Hen Fetsch, Lewis Ganson, Louis Histed, Roy Johnson, Al Koran, Fred Lowe, Billy McComb, Han Trixer, Verrall Wass, Mark Weston and Jack Yates. There were countless more of course.

There are a total of 3,328 pages and 114 pages of index. The contents page is hypertext linked and one click of the mouse takes the viewer to the relevant item in a split second.