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Jinx
Jinx.jpg
Issue No. 1
FrequencyMonthy, then weekly
PublisherTed Annemann
First issueOctober, 1934
Final issueDecember 15, 1941
Total issues151
The Jinx was a Magic Periodical edited and published by Ted Annemann, 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 Genii 1971 March Vernon Touch column, Henry Christ 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. 60, no. 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. They were to be filled with another "Jinx Extra" that was never completed. Ted, before his death, told Walter B. Gibson that he wanted to reprint his "Popular Card Tricks" (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.

Notable contributions

Some of the routines first published in The Jinx that would become notable include: Miraskill, Sefalaljia, Brainwave Deck and Pseuo-Psychometry.

The Fake Jinx

The "fake" Jinx was published as a spoof by Bob Weill and Ralph Hinkson, but it outraged Annemann. Most copies were turned over to him, which he destroyed. A copy saved by Gene Gordon (editor of Linking Ring) was used by Jay Marshall when he reproduced it in his New Phoenix 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 Burling Hull 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 New Jinx many years later, starting in the 1960s.

75th Anniversary Celebration

A special 32 page new issue of Jinx created by Harry Anderson was published in the October 2009 issue of Genii .


Contents

  • No. 1 October 1934
    • 1 Hallucination by Eddie Clever
    • 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 Paul Rosini
  • No. 2 November 1934
    • 1 The Devil's Four Aces by Ted Annemann
    • 2 The Finders by Orville Meyer
    • 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! (Les Gilbert)
    • 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
  • No. 5 February 1935
    • 2 The Red and Blue Back Color Change (Theodore Annemann)
    • 2 With Sight Unseen (L. E. Duncanson)
    • 3 The Solution of Something To Work On
    • 3 The Lie Detective (Stuart Hobson)
    • 4 A Question And The Answer (Theodore Annemann)
    • 4 A Neat Publicity Trick (Nat Scherser)
  • No. 6 March 1935
    • 2 Impromptu Frame Ups (Theodore Annemann)
    • 3 The Astral Shirt (Theodore Annemann)
    • 3 The Card That Isn't! (Russell T. Wise)
    • 4 Two Mind Reading Publicity Effects (Theodore Annemann)
  • No. 7 April 1935
    • 2 The "ELM" Card Change (E. Leslie May)
    • 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 (Conrad Busch)
  • No. 8 May 1935
    • 30 An Improvement In La Carte (Theodore Annemann)
    • 30 The Astral Shirt Again! (Dr. L.E. Duncanson)
    • 31 Thought Rays (Dr. L.E. Duncanson)
    • 31 Tom Bowyer's Publicity Trick
    • 32 The Jinx Five-Foot Shelf Of Magic
    • 32 Transient Money (E. D. Wolff)
  • 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 Psuedo - Psychometry
  • 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!!! (Stuart Robson)
    • 41 Just The Same Alike (Ted Annemann)
    • 42 With One Hand (Ted Annemann)
    • 42 It Goes This Way (Ted Annemann)
    • 43 The 'One Of A Bunch' (Orville Meyer)
    • 43 The Impression Moderne (Ted Annemann)
    • 43 The Ribbon That Made Good (Orville Meyer)
    • 44 The Migrating Pasteboard (Ted Annemann)
    • 44 The Face Up - Face Down Location (Ted Annemann)
    • 45 A Principle In Disguise (Jack Vosburgh)
    • 45 From Out Of The Air (Ted Annemann)
    • 46 The Hankerchief That Flew (Ted Annemann)
    • 46 A Daffy Discovery (Ted Annemann)
    • 46 A New Method Of Tabulation (Ralph Read)
    • 47 The Unknown Subject (Ted Annemann)
    • 48 Par-Optic Vision (Ted Annemann)
  • No. 10 July 1935
    • 50 Twentieth Century Cards (Theodore Annemann)
    • 51 "Suprise!!" (J.G. Thompson, Jr.)
    • 51 The Henry E. Dixie Cigarette Vanish
    • 52 Extra Sensory Perception (Thedore Annemann)
  • No. 11 August 1935
    • 54 The Fan Location (El Ray)
    • 55 A Trick With The Fan Location (Theodore Annemann)
    • 55 A Card To Be Thought About (Theodore Annemann)
    • 55 A Divination With Matches (Theodore Annemann)
  • No. 12 September 1935
    • 58 Thoughts In General (Theodore Annemann)
    • 59 THe Solitaire King (Theodore Annemann)
    • 60 The Four Aces On The Stage (Theodore Annemann)
    • 60 Wanted - A Card Routine Without Cards!
  • No. 13 October 1935
  • No. 14 November 1935
    • 66 A Card In Flight!! (Bobby Hummer)
    • 66 Coins, En Route! (Ottokar Fischer)
    • 69 A Cute And Quick Location (Theodore Annemann)
    • 69 Metal Versus Fabric (Fred DeMuth)
    • 70 Thoughts In The Air (Theodore Annemann)
  • No. 15 December 1935
    • 72 An Original Faked Envelope With A Publicity Angle (Theodore Annemann)
    • 75 A Different Card Spelling (George C. Hanneman)
    • 75 An Original Ball-Dropper (Ottokar Fischer)
    • 76 Diabolical Influence (Harris Solomon)
  • No. 16 January 1936
    • 78 A Visible Cigarette Vanisher (Lu Brent)
    • 78 Again A Prediction (Doc Mifflin)
    • 79 The Lucky Number Magic Square (Royal V. Heath)
    • 79 Brrr!! (meaning 'very' cold) (Otis Manning)
    • 80 The Acme Thought Card Pass (Dr. Jacob Daley and Theodore Annemann)
    • The Jinx 1935 Winter 1936
    • 83 Impromptu Vision (J.G. Thompson Jr.)
    • 83 The Puzzling Speller (Bobby Hummer)
    • 83 The Undercover Mystery (Theodore Annemann)
    • 84 Tobacco Magic (Lu-Brent)
    • 84 The Classical Cigarette (Lu-Brent)
    • 85 Simpex Torn Card And Balloon (Lu-Brent)
    • 85 The Itinerant Dollar (Jacob Steisal)
    • 86 The 32 Card Mystery (Audley Walsh)
    • 86 The Psychic Knows (Robert Parrish)
    • 87 Money In The Pocket (Jack Vosburgh)
    • 87 The 20th Century Slate Test (Jean Hugard)
    • 87 More Higher Magic (Theodore Annemann)
    • 88 The Ultra Slate Message (Dr. Jacob Daley)
    • 88 Automatic Seconds (Harry J. Smith)
    • 89 "How Did He Know?" (Vincent Dalban)
    • 89 A Test Of Power (Eddie Clever)
    • 90 A Ring In Transit (Eddie Clever)
  • No. 17 February 1936
  • No. 18 March 1936
    • 98 The Miracle Speller (Vincent Dalban)
    • 98 The Phantom Cigarette (Lu-Brent)
    • 101 Thoughts In General (Theodore Annemann)
    • 102 Death Flight! (Tom Sellers)
  • No. 19 April 1936
    • 104 The Addition of The Age (Charles Nagle)
    • 107 The Scarney Thought Card (John Scarne)
    • 107 Another Stop
    • 108 A Version Of The Al Baker Three Billet Trick (Theodore Annemann)
  • No. 20 May 1936
  • No. 21 June 1936
    • 122 The Audley Walsh Coincidence
    • 122 Prophecy Plus (L. Vosburgh Lyons)
    • 123 Triple Coercion (Theodore Annemann)
    • 123 Loneh Mentalism (Charles Rosenthal)
    • 124 The Spectral Seamstress (Charles T. Jordan)
  • No. 22 July 1936
    • 125 Numero by Al Baker
    • 129 A Question Of Power (L. Vosburgh Lyons)
    • 130 A Card Phenomenon (Audley Walsh)
    • 130 "Here's Your Change ---?" (Lu-Brent)
  • The Jinx Summer Extra 1936
    • 133 Suggested Programs No. One - A Club Act Of Magic
    • 134 An Amusing Card Reversal (Lynn Searles)
    • 134 A Paradox Of Pairs (Dr. Jacob Daley)
    • 134 The Annemann Bell Box
    • 135 The "So Simple" Force. (Lynn Searles)
    • 135 Dice And A Book (Theodore Annemann)
    • 136 "We Stand Pat" (Lu-Brent)
    • 136 Governmental Wizardry (Charles Nagle)
    • 137 Trickery! (Theodore Annemann)
    • 137 On The Wire (Thedore Annemann)
    • 138 The Novelty Box Selection (Lyman Allen)
    • 138 The "Ad Lib" Spelling (Dr. Jacob Daley)

References

  • New Phoenix (No. 317, october 31, 1954, page 74)
  • Information regarding gape in pagination of the Jinx in Ask the Doctor! by John Henry Grossman, M-U-M, Vol. 59, no. 4, september 1969