Thayer's Magical Bulletin began publication in
January 1914 with Vol. 1, # 1, and ran fairly steadily until May
1925, when it stopped publication with Vol. 12, # 7. Some
twenty-three years later, Bill Larsen, Sr. the editor of Genii
and then also owner of Thayer's, decided to revive the Magical
Bulletin. He issued Vol. 13 ,# 1 dated June 1948 and
followed with Vol. 13, # 2 dated Fall 1948. These two issues were
simply an epitaph to a fine magazine that had died 23 years
before.
Our on-line collection begins with the July 1917 issue,
Volume V, Number 7. Unless we receive more issues in our
collection, our last one is June 1924, Volume 11, Number 8.
Each on-line bulletin is complete. It has simply been scanned
and converted to a pdf file. The typical bulletin contains magic
news and gossip, a variety of magic effects from various
contributors, advertisements mainly from Thayer, but also from
other dealers, and the occasional hidden "gem" that
would have been lost to future generations of magicians had it
not been for this extraordinary magazine.
Begin "gem
hunting" here: