This is the only all magic issue of Science and Mechanics magazine. It includes a cross section of magic effects from illusions with building instructions, to various close-up effects and mentalism. The emphasis with this magazine was to encourage readers to build their own. It therefore has a distinct DIY feel. The magic consultants for this issue were William B. Gibson, Sidney H. Radner, Litzka Raymond, and Victor D. Dressner.
- COVER STORY: Famous Knife Box Illusion
- EXCLUSIVE FEATURE: Escapes—Special Form of Magic
- GENERAL FEATURES
- About Magic
- Magic Black-Art Table
- Magical Appliances
- Present Your Own Magic Show
- 40 MAGIC PROJECTS TO BUILD AND PERFORM
- Sliding Die Box
- Cabalistic Cube
- Wrist Chopper
- Baffling Blocks
- Cake in a Hat
- Three Silk Tricks
- Card Found in a Balloon
- Candle from the Pocket
- Crystal Casket
- Strange Riddle of Magnetic Milk
- Mental Pack
- Flash Production Tube
- Glass Balanced on Card
- Penetration of Solid Through Solid
- Appearing Card in a Frame
- Chemical Magic
- Vanishing Glass of Water
- Tube and Ropes
- Traveling Wand
- Escape from a Packing Box
- Vanishing Made Easy
- Wrist Stock Escape
- Vanishing Glass of Milk
- 3-Dimensional Jigsaw Perplexture
- Evaporating Milk
- Ink into Water
- Small Silk to Full-Size Egg
- Flying Handkerchief
- Breakaway Vanishing Box
- Making and Solving Puzzles
- Matchbox and Ribbon Mystery
- Chinese Rice Canisters
- Close-up Rising Cards
- Confetti Becomes Candy
- Handkerchief Production Cabinet
- Produce Beautiful Silks
- Spirit Slate Trick
- Vanishing Bowl of Water
- Spooky Card Trick
- Block, Frame, and Ribbon Trick
- TABLE-TOP MAGIC
- 68 Table-Top Tricks
- Record Lights Tube
- The Six Pile
- The Reappearing Ball
- Balanced Water
- Cord-Arm Escape
- Drink Up
- Obedient Matchbox
- Juice Writing
- Card Sharp
- Pull the Pacer
- The Floating Straw
- Chew Two Strings into One
- What Brand?
- Rearranging Molecules
- Tug of War
- Written in the Cards
- Cutting the Cards
- Name the Coin
- A Light Matter
- Perfect Balance
- Confetti from an Egg
- Three Coins into Four
- Dry Sand
- A Floating Filter
- Hot Money?
- Box Up Your Sleeve
- Pocket Mind Reading
- Make Dimes Disappear
- Cord Through Wrist
- Pick the Card
- Matches Meet Their Match
- Reverse Shell Game
- Card Stands on End
- Carry Fire in Your Hands
- Where Does the Money Go?
- Disk Meets Coin
- Magnetic Personality?
- Flip a Coin
- Pop!— Goes the Pencil
- Magnetic Fingertips
- Ball Space Rider
- Disappearing Match
- N o Strings on These Rings
- Domino Numbers
- N ow You See It; Now You Don't
- Match Tongs
- Quick-Change Checkers
- Water-Drinking Spirits
- What Makes It Float?
- Cigarette Follows Lead
- Diving Eye Dropper
- Coin from an Empty Box
- One or Two Balls
- Disappearing Sugar
- "Thin Air " Force
- Shifting Dice
- Flaming Fission
- The Shell Game
- Human Egg Factory
- Matches Obey Command
- Pencil-in-the-Box
- Orange Picking
- Seeing with Your Hands
- Stand Match on End
- Magnetic Paper
- The Uncut Paper
- Name the Color
- Drop the Coin
- Sleight-of-Hand Tricks
- 68 Table-Top Tricks
- 8 FAMOUS STAGE ILLUSIONS
- Egyptian Torture Cabinet
- Thurston's Spirit Cabinet
- Thurston's Rising Card Trick
- Floating Piano
- Cannon and Trunks
- Million Dollar Mystery
- Upside Down Mystery
- How to Saw a Woman in Half
1st edition 1962, No. 589, 160 pages.
word count: 99174 which is equivalent to 396 standard pages of text
