The Linking Ring

The Linking Ring is a monthly print magazine, published by the International Brotherhood of Magicians. It is also available in electronic form to members of the IBM. All members of the IBM are entitled to receive this periodical. It was first published in 1923. Samuel Patrick Smith, a Eustis, Florida -based magician, author and publisher, became executive editor of the magazine in 2007.^[1]

List of Magicians featured on the cover of past issues

• Joe Berg ^[2]
• David Berglas^[3]
• John Calvert^[4]
• Bev Bergeron ^[5]
• Robert Chambers ^[6]
• Juliana Chen^[7]
• Wilton "Wil Staar" Clements
• Robert C. Dowd^[8]
• Dr. Robert A. Escher, Jr.
• Nelson Hahne
• Justin Flom^[9]
• Eugene Gloye^[10]
• Joshua Jay^[11]
• Kristen Johnson^[12]
• George Johnstone^[13]
• Mel Kientz^[14]
• Milt Kort^[15]
• Louis Martelle ^[16]
• Mike Makman (aka Professor Putter)^[17]
• Max Maven (aka Phil Goldstein)^[18]
• Jeff McBride^[19]
• Johnny Ace Palmer^[20]
• Jon Racherbaumer ^[21]
• Richard J. Weibel ^[22]
• Mac King (caricatured) ^[23]
• Dale Salwak ^[24]
• Harold Adrian Smith ^[25]
• Cindy Spencer ^[26]
• Harold Twaddle^[27]
• Herb Zarrow^[28]

Notes

• Nelson Hahne did not actually appear on the cover of the December 2007 Linking Ring, but rather an illustration drawn using his style appears on the cover of that issue. The "Cover Story" within that issue, however, discusses the life and contributions of Mr. Hahne to the magic world.
• Kristen Johnson^[29] followed in the footsteps of her mother Sunny Johnson, who appeared on the cover in March 2002.

Notable Issues/Contributors

• In the July 1996 edition, Fantasio contributed a One Man Parade.^[30]

Monthly Features/Columns

• Hocus In Focus is the journal review section, listing reviews of a wide array of books, marketed effects and utility devices as well as magic related videos.^[31]
• Our Side of the Pond
• The Expert at the Tech Table
• The President's Page
• Hocus Pocus Parade is the title of a regular column which appears in The Linking Ring, published by The International Brotherhood of Magicians. Although the table of contents usually lists the specific contributing magician's name (i.e. "Max Maven One Man Parade").^[32] the column itself is still named Hocus Pocus Parade.
• Ring Reports is a collection of monthly reports, submitted by the Ring Reporters for each respective IBM Ring.
• Situationally Yours
• Memoirs of a Magician's Ghost: The Autobiography of John Booth
• Marcom...from the table of my memory
• '"Potter's Bar'", a series of columns by Jack Potter (d.1978), giving bibliographic references to periodical and book descriptions of magical effects. They were later collected and published as Master Index to Magic in Print.^[33]

Editors Emeriti

• Phil Wilmarth (also served as Assistant Editor)^[34]
• Howard Bamman ^[35][36]

Errata

• The table of contents for issue 5, volume 79 lists Hocus Pocus Parade as starting on page 105 yet it actually starts on page 87 of that issue.^[37][38]

External links

• The Linking Ring

References

1. http://www.magician.org/portal/node/116
2. "Cover page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 57 (4): 1. April 1977.
3. "Cover page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 57 (1): 1. January 1977.
4. "Cover page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 88 (8): 1. August 2008.
5. "Cover page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 76 (7): 1. July 1996.
6. "Cover page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 57 (11): 1. November 1977.
7. "Cover page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 80 (9): 1. September 2000.
8. "Cover page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 65 (3): 1. March 1985.
9. "Cover page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 87 (5): 1. May 2007.
10. "Cover page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 58 (11): 42,43; 55. November 1978.
11. "Cover page". The Linking Ring. 90 (5): 1. May 2010.
12. "Cover page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 89 (6). June 2009.
13. "Cover page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 71 (3). March 1991.
14. "Cover page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 88 (3): 1. March 2008.
15. "Cover page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 64 (9): 1. September 1984.
16. "Cover Page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 80 (1): 1. January 2000.
17. "Cover Page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 75 (5): 1. May 1999.
18. "Cover Page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 80 (2): 1. February 2000.
19. "Cover page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 74 (5): 1. May 1994.
20. "Cover page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 78 (4): 1. April 1998.
21. "Jon Racherbaumer: One Man Parade 2". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 89 (10): 77–95. October 2009.
22. "Cover page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 74 (9): 1. September 1994.
23. "Cover page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 87 (10): 1. October 2007.
24. "Cover page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 57 (2): 1. February 1977.
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26. "Cover page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 78 (9): 1. September 1998.
27. "Our Cover: Harold Twaddle". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 72 (6): 75. June 1992.
28. "Cover page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 81 (4): 1. April 2001.
29. "Cover page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 89 (6). June 2009.
30. "Hocus Pocus Parade". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 76 (7): 78–87. July 1996.
31. "Hocus In Focus". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 80 (1): 120–126. January 2000.
32. "Table of Contents". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 80 (2): 5. February 2000.
33. T. A. Waters, The Encyclopedia of Magic and Magicians. NY: Facts on File, 1988 ISBN 0-8160-1349-7, p. 267
34. "Copyright page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 78 (3): 4. March 1998.
35. "Copyright page". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 72 (6): 4. June 1992.
36. "From the Editor". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 70 (1): 52. January 1990.
37. "Table of Contents". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 75 (5): 5. May 1999.
38. "Hocus Pocus Parade". The Linking Ring. The International Brotherhood of Magicians. 75 (5): 87–106. May 1999.