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The Illustrated Story of Magic was never reprinted.
This is a beautiful comics title which entertains as much as it informs you about the history of magic. See illustrated stories from the lives of Robert-Houdin and Harry Houdini. Learn the secrets of some of the most famous stage illusions as well as the 'most marvelous trick in the world'.
This was issued as #23 in the 'World Around Us' series. Art by George Evans and Gray Morrow.
1st edition 1960; 67 pages.
Contents:
The Wizard of France – the story of Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin
Secrets of the Pharaohs – the story of the Rosetta Stone
The First Magicians
The Cursed Trick – The Bullet Catch
The Beheading Game – the Irish legend of Cuchulainn
The Great Houdini
The Most Marvelous Trick in the World – The Hindu Rope Trick
The Mysterious Traveler – the story of Paracelsus
Witches, Magic and Medicine
A Man of Sense – the story of Omar Khayyam
The Truth Will Out - explanations
The Prophet Daniel
Heads without Bodies
The Lady Vanishes
How Houdini Did It
Half a Girl is Better than None
What’s Magic About It? - puzzles