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Magicana (New Zealand)

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Magicana
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50th Anniversary Issue
EditorsHarold Chandler, Colin Smith, Jim Reilly, Michael Woolf
FrequencyBi-monthly
First issueJanuary-February 1953
Final issueJune 2013
Total issues361

Magicana (1953-2013) was a bi-monthly Magic Periodical from New Zealand started by the Waikato Society of Magicians in the 1950s. Beginning with the first issue of dated January-February 1953, it was was published continuously for 60 years. [1]

The first subscription in 1953 cost ten shillings for six issues.[2]

Escalating costs and diminution of advertising lead to the final issue being produced in June 2013, Volume 60 Number 361 .[3]

The editors of Magicana over its history were:

References

  1. http://www.magicana.co.nz/
  2. Tops, June 1953
  3. http://www.magicnewzealand.com/ezine-archive/2013-Jan-to-Dec-2013/1027-Jun16-2013.html