Karl Fulves
Encyclopedia
Karl Fulves is a magician and author and editor of numerous publications on magic
, including the Pallbearer's Review.
Karl Fulves lives in Fairlawn, New Jersey, and is a private person who has repeatedly turned down all requests for interviews. There is not much known about him other than his incredible output of magic literature. He has taught thousands of beginners, young and old, to perform remarkable feats of sleight of hand
through the books he has published.
Fulves is most well known for his "Self-Working" book series from Dover.
He also started another periodical called Epilogue from 1967 until 1976.
In 1970, Joseph K. Schmidt submitted Fulves a coin flourish complete with illustrations. The contribution
was published in Volume 5, Issue #10 of Pallbearers. Fulves was very impressed with Schmidt's artistic abilities and, coincidentally, was looking for an artist to illustrate some of the lengthier routines. He asked Schmidt to illustrate an effect called Canterbury Cups and Schmidt agreed. Fulves and Schmidt's relationship grew. Fulves was the first person to refer to Schmidt as an "artist
". Schmidt has illustrated over 75 books, manuscripts and book
lets for Fulves, including Swindle Sheet, Cheat Sheet, Rigmarole, and Verbatim.
Shortly after concluding Pallbearers and Epilogue he announced the birth of a new periodical, The Chronicles Limited to 36 issues, The Chronicles took from 1978 to 1988 to complete, and during those ten years, some of the finest close-up magic of the period was explained in its pages.
Fulves published many more periodicals over the years including CHARLATAN, UNDERWORLD accompanied by FINE PRINT, INTERLOCUTOR, and MIDNIGHT MAGIC MONTHLY (13 issues, a complete file of which is virtually unobtainable).
List of periodicals published by Karl Fulves:
Alfredson/Daily - Fernandes numbers, titles, year of publication and number of issues in a complete file:
Karl Fulves current publications, started in 1999, are Discoverie, Charlatan and Latter Day Secrets.
Fulves also wrote the text for a number of the Stars of Magic manuscripts, including Chris Capehart's 3-Ring Routine, Joe de Stefano's Chinatown Poker, Max Londono's Eternal String, Metalogic (Fred Baumann) and David Roth
Okito Box routine.
Magic (illusion)
Magic is a performing art that entertains audiences by staging tricks or creating illusions of seemingly impossible or supernatural feats using natural means...
, including the Pallbearer's Review.
Karl Fulves lives in Fairlawn, New Jersey, and is a private person who has repeatedly turned down all requests for interviews. There is not much known about him other than his incredible output of magic literature. He has taught thousands of beginners, young and old, to perform remarkable feats of sleight of hand
Sleight of hand
Sleight of hand, also known as prestidigitation or legerdemain, is the set of techniques used by a magician to manipulate objects such as cards and coins secretly....
through the books he has published.
Fulves is most well known for his "Self-Working" book series from Dover.
Periodicals
Karl Fulves took over The New Phoenix magazine from Don Tanner. He published three more issues and then at issue 400 in October 1965 stated "The bird will be fondly laid to rest." He then started a new magazine called The Pallbearers Review which continued until 1975.He also started another periodical called Epilogue from 1967 until 1976.
In 1970, Joseph K. Schmidt submitted Fulves a coin flourish complete with illustrations. The contribution
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was published in Volume 5, Issue #10 of Pallbearers. Fulves was very impressed with Schmidt's artistic abilities and, coincidentally, was looking for an artist to illustrate some of the lengthier routines. He asked Schmidt to illustrate an effect called Canterbury Cups and Schmidt agreed. Fulves and Schmidt's relationship grew. Fulves was the first person to refer to Schmidt as an "artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
". Schmidt has illustrated over 75 books, manuscripts and book
Book
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lets for Fulves, including Swindle Sheet, Cheat Sheet, Rigmarole, and Verbatim.
Shortly after concluding Pallbearers and Epilogue he announced the birth of a new periodical, The Chronicles Limited to 36 issues, The Chronicles took from 1978 to 1988 to complete, and during those ten years, some of the finest close-up magic of the period was explained in its pages.
Fulves published many more periodicals over the years including CHARLATAN, UNDERWORLD accompanied by FINE PRINT, INTERLOCUTOR, and MIDNIGHT MAGIC MONTHLY (13 issues, a complete file of which is virtually unobtainable).
List of periodicals published by Karl Fulves:
Alfredson/Daily - Fernandes numbers, titles, year of publication and number of issues in a complete file:
- 15505..Charlatan 1999 - in progress
- 15550..Cheat Sheet 1990-1992 10 issues
- 1580...Chronicles 1978-1988 36 issues
- 19657..Discoverie 1999 - in progress
- 2130...Epilogue 1967-1975 25 issues
- 22102..Fine Print, The 1995-1999 10 issues
- 2955...Interlocutor 1975-1988 52 issues
- 29505..Interim Report 1993 1 issue
- 3262...Lamplighter (with Jim Sarles) 1963-1964(?) 7(?) issues
- 32627..Latter Day Secrets 1999 - in progress
- 4850...Midnight Magic Monthly 1959-1960 12+3 issues
- 5180...New Phoenix 1965 4 issues 397-400
- 5335...Notebooks no information available
- 5510...Pallbearers Review original series ?-1965 22 issues
- 5515...Pallbearers Review 1965-1975 120 issues
- 58955..Rigmarole 1993-1994 10 issues
- 6055...S-C 1985 7 issues
- 65703..Swindle Sheet 1990-1992 10 issues
- 69206..Underworld 1995-1999 10 issues
- 69800..Verbatim 1993-1994 10 issues
Karl Fulves current publications, started in 1999, are Discoverie, Charlatan and Latter Day Secrets.
Published works
Most of the titles are published by Karl Fulves himself, under his own name or Gutenberg Press.| Title | Date | Pages |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Prophets | 1996 | 60 |
| 28 Card Tricks | 1991 | 64 |
| A History of the Brainwave Principle | 1983 | 100 |
| Ace Machine | 1963 | 6 |
| After Jordan | 1983 | 12 |
| And a Packet of Cards | 1989 | 60 |
| Animation | 1979 | 12 |
| Big Book of Magic Tricks | 1994 | ? |
| Binary Count Notes | 1969 | ? |
| Blocking Off | ? | ? |
| Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets | 1980 | 106 |
| Bob Ostin's New Submarine Card | 1983 | 40 |
| Calculator Tricks | 1998 | 130 |
| Card Counting | 1982 | 48 |
| Card Under Glass | 1979 | 24 |
| Cards #1 Four-card Brainwave | 1978 | 20 |
| Cards #2 51 Faces North | 1978 | 24 |
| Cards #3 Interlock | 1980 | 72 |
| Cards #4 Side Steal | 1981 | 60 |
| Cards #5 The Multiple Shift | 1989 | 48 |
| Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks | 1992 | 252 |
| Charles T Jordan collected tricks | 1975 | 315 |
| Clockwork: Approaches to Card Counting | ? | ? |
| Close-up Mental Magic | 1974 | 55 |
| Color Capture | 1986 | 30 |
| Color Quick | 1980 | 50 |
| Combo | 1998 | 55 |
| Combo II | ? | ? |
| Command Colors | 1997 | 22 |
| Contemporary Handkerchief Magic, part 1 | 1987 | 30 |
| Contemporary Handkerchief Magic, part 2 | 1987 | 28 |
| Contemporary Rope Magic, part 1 | 1986 | 28 |
| Contemporary Rope Magic, part 2 | 1986 | 28 |
| Contemporary Rope Magic, part 3 | 1986 | 28 |
| Covenant | 1987 | 29 |
| Crooked Tales | 1994 | 129 |
| Cryptology | 1979 | 24 |
| Curioser | 1980 | 61 |
| Deceptive Practices | 1992 | 83 |
| Deceptive Practices, Supplement | 1992 | 28 |
| Downs on Malini | ? | 11 |
| NSOM : Dr Ken Krenzel's Incredible Card Tunnel | 1975 | 6 |
| Easy to do card tricks for children | 1989 | 47 |
| Easy to do magic tricks for children | 1974 | 90 |
| Epilogue | 1993 | 312 |
| Faro and riffle technique | 1976 | 90 |
| Faro and riffle techniques | 1969 | 46 |
| Faro and riffle technique; Supplement 1 | 1970 | 10 |
| Faro and riffle technique; Supplement 2 | 1970 | ? |
| Faro and riffle technique; Supplement 3 | 1970 | ? |
| Faro possibilities | 1967 | ? |
| Faro possibilities | 1979 | 36 |
| Four color problems | 1979 | 24 |
| Fourcast | 1981 | 36 |
| Fr Cyprian's TV card rise | 1982 | 40 |
| Gambler's third lesson | 1979 | 16 |
| Gene Finnell's card magic | 1973 | 76 |
| Hardcore aces | 1983 | 12 |
| History of the brainwave principle | 1983 | 100 |
| Hocus Poker Fulves | 1982 | |
| Hofzinser's Card Tricks | ? | ? |
| Hofzinser Notebook | 2003 | 87 |
| Impromptu holdouts | 1977 | 50 |
| Impromptu openers | 1979 | 8 |
| Inner sanctum | 1979 | 48 |
| Jack in the Box | 1979 | 24 |
| Jacob Daley's Notebooks (transcr. Csuri) | 1975 | 194 |
| Kaleidoscope Rope | 1989 | 50 |
| Kannibal Kards | 1975 | 8 |
| NSOM : Karl Fulves Technicolor Cards | 1974 | 6 |
| Magic Book | 1977 | 195 |
| Methods with Cards, part 1 | 1975 | 80 |
| Methods with Cards, part 2 | 1975 | 80 |
| Methods with Cards, part 3 | 1975 | 80 |
| Mexican Monte | 1972 | 32 |
| Millennium Aces | 1981 | 92 |
| Money Moves | 1989 | 34 |
| More Self-working Card Tricks | 1984 | 136 |
| Mutus Nomen | 1988 | ? |
| Neale's Trapdoor Card | 1983 | 12 |
| New Card Rises | 1996 | 62 |
| Notes from the Underground | 1973 | 61 |
| Nyria Effect | 1979 | 24 |
| Octet | 1981 | 76 |
| Origins | 1981 | 56 |
| Packet Switches (part I) | 1976 | 56 |
| Packet Switches (part II) | 1973 | 56 |
| Packet Switches (part III, Harvey Rosenthal) | 1977 | 76 |
| Packet Switches (part IV Gene Maze) | 1977 | 72 |
| Packet Switches (part V Gene Maze) | 1977 | 70 |
| Pallbearers Review volume 1-4 | 1993 | 290 |
| Pallbearers Review volume 5-8 | 1993 | 390 |
| Pallbearers Review volume 9-12 | 1993 | 380 |
| Parallel Lines | 1980 | 40 |
| Principles of Riffle Shuffle Set-ups | 1968 | 30 |
| Prolix | ||
| Prototype | 1989 | 50 |
| Punch out Puzzle Kit | 1982 | 24 |
| Quick Card Tricks | 1989 | 50 |
| Riffle Shuffle Control | 1979 | 23 |
| Riffle Shuffle Methods | 1987 | 49 |
| Riffle Shuffle Set-ups | 1973 | 98 |
| Riffle Shuffle Set-ups | 1976 | 98 |
| Riffle Shuffle Technique Preliminaries, Notes, Problems | 1971 | 22 |
| Riffle Shuffle Technique Preliminary Notes, part 1 | 1972 | 22 |
| Riffle Shuffle Technique, part 1 | 1975 | 12 |
| Riffle Shuffle Technique Preliminary Notes, part 2 | 1973 | 60 |
| Riffle Shuffle Technique, part 2 | 1975 | 10 |
| Riffle Shuffle Technique, part 3 | 1984 | 92 |
| S-C contemporary money magic no 1, Robert E Neale's short change wallet | 1985 | 21 |
| S-C contemporary money magic no 2, Max Londono's After max | 1985 | 16 |
| S-C contemporary money magic no 3, Harvey Rosenthal's two and two | 1985 | 16 |
| S-C contemporary money magic no 4, Howard Wurst's paper money | 1985 | 16 |
| S-C contemporary money magic no 5, Robert E Neale's bill tube | 1985 | 16 |
| S-C contemporary money magic no 6, Howard Wurst's simplex switch | 1985 | 16 |
| S-C contemporary money magic no 7, Nick van Selter's one hand turnover | 1985 | 16 |
| Secret Session, part one | 1987 | 29 |
| Secret Session, part two | 1987 | 28 |
| Secret Session, part three | 1987 | 28 |
| Self-working Card Tricks | 1976 | 113 |
| Self-working Close-up Card Magic | 1995 | 120 |
| Self-working Coin Magic | 1989 | 136 |
| Self-working Handkerchief Magic | 1989 | 184 |
| Self-working Mental Magic | 1979 | 121 |
| Self-working Number Magic | 1982 | 145 |
| Self-working Paper Magic | 1985 | 147 |
| Self-working Rope Magic | 1990 | 148 |
| Self-working Table Magic | 1981 | 122 |
| Setting up Exercises | 1995 | 111 |
| Shape Changers | 1979 | 44 |
| Shuffle off | 1983 | 12 |
| Six Impromptu Card Tricks | 1982 | 48 |
| Swindle & Cheat - a collection of nontransitive games | 1991 | 71 |
| Teleportation Notes | 1969 | 8 |
| Teleportation Notes | 1979 | 24 |
| The Best of Slydini and More, vol 1 (text) | 1976 | 108 |
| The Best of Slydini and More, vol 2 (photos) | 1976 | 126 |
| The Book of Numbers | 1971 | 47 |
| The Book of Numbers, Supplementary Notes | 1971 | 19 |
| The Children's Magic Kit | 1980 | 16+16 |
| The Magic of Slydini and More, vol 1 (text) | 1976 | 108 |
| The Magic of Slydini and More, vol 2 (photos) | 1976 | 126 |
| The Magical World of Slydini, vol 1 (text) | 1979 | 101 |
| The Magical World of Slydini, vol 2 (photos) | 1979 | 176 |
| The Return Trip | 1986 | 39 |
| The Shamrock Code & the Parallel Principle | 1979 | 48 |
| Topological False Count | 1979 | 18 |
| Transpo Trix | 1978 | 80 |
| Trick with Dice | 1970 | ? |
| Vampire Chronicles | 1997 | 92 |
| Vampire Papers | 1997 | 45 |
| When Psychics Play Poker | ? | ? |
| Wireless II | 1982 | 48 |
| Word Play | ? | ? |
| Worknotes on Brainwave | 1983 | 20 |
Fulves also wrote the text for a number of the Stars of Magic manuscripts, including Chris Capehart's 3-Ring Routine, Joe de Stefano's Chinatown Poker, Max Londono's Eternal String, Metalogic (Fred Baumann) and David Roth
David Roth
David Roth is an American magician.Roth is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest living coin magicians. Roth is known both for tremendous technical mastery and for playful and surrealistic formal performance pieces...
Okito Box routine.