Jon Racherbaumer: The Legendary Hierophant
Racherbaumer, Jon: The Legendary
Hierophant
©1998 Jon Racherbaumer, D. Robbins Company, Inc.
Hardcover, w/dj, 10x12", 415 pages |
Image courtesy eBay seller Pastrami_rye
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Comments: This is a compilation of all of the issues of
Jon Racherbaumer's The Hierophant magazine. The
articles have been reorganized, updated, and reformatted.
Contents (from book ToC, page numbers added courtesy
Wolfgang Lohfink, Cybercardmagic, magicbooks.be):
1 Proem
11 Part One Trade Secret Tools
13 Controls
15 One-Cut Double Control (Edward Marlo)
16 Convincing Control (Ed Marlo)
22 Snap Pass (Jon Racherbaumer)
25 Covering the Top Card Pass (Ed Marlo, Jon Racherbaumer)
27 On the Charlier Pass (Ed Marlo)
31 Spring Control (Anton York)
32 Control Fake Outs (Ed Marlo)
32 Jog Shuffle Fake Out
32 Slight Variation
32 I-F Control Fake Out
33 Convincing Tilt (Daryl Martinez)
34 Tilt Tip and Mock Placement (Ed Marlo)
35 Tilt Bit (Lin Searles)
36 Doubles
36 Center Double (Jon Racherbaumer)
38 Darting Double (Jon Racherbaumer)
39 Double Lift Get-Ready (Ed Marlo)
40 Changes, Exchanges, Switches
40 Visual Retention Change (Ed Marlo)
44 Breakless Curry Change (Ed Marlo)
47 Technical Variation of the Veeser Concept (Ed Marlo)
49 Setting Up A Packet Exchange (Ed Marlo)
52 Casual Card Add (Ed Marlo)
53 Moving Monte Switch (Chuck Smith)
55 Maraase Change and Vanish (Jon Racherbaumer)
57 Double Erdnase Change (Jon Racherbaumer)
58 One-Hand Bottom Deal Illusion (Ed Marlo)
60 Variant Of Hit Second Deal (Ed Marlo)
62 Crack Card Switches (Ed Marlo)
65 Out Of This World Clean-up (Ernie Heldman)
66 Open Double Deal Exchange (Ed Marlo)
67 Lethal Weapons
67 Swivel Cull (Ed Marlo)
68 Spread and Palm (Ed Marlo)
71 Rub-A-Dub Gone (Ed Marlo)
73 Insertion Subtlety (Ed Marlo)
74 Faking Out Elmsley (Ed Marlo)
76 Sleeper Shank Shuffle (Ed Marlo)
77 Skinning The Cat (Ed Marlo)
79 Mario s Double-Count (Ed Marlo)
80 Sneaky Peeks
80 If Glimpse (Jon Racherbaumer)
83 FT Glimpse (Ed Marlo)
84 Spring Glimpse (Ed Marlo)
84 Neo-Piquant Glimpse (Jon Racherbaumer)
85 Beveled Deck Glimpse (Ed Marlo)
87 Turn Around Center Glimpse (Ed Marlo)
90 Part Two - Open Prediction
92 Mario's Original Solution To The Open Prediction
94 Action Lift For The Open Prediction
95 Repeat Open Prediction
96 First Variation
96 Second Variation
98 When Stuck Without The Stik-Tack
99 Second Repeat Version
100 First Variation
101 Second Variation
102 Method Eight
103 Method Nine - Automatic Jog
105 Spectator’s Prediction
106 The Joker’s Prediction
107 Open Prediction - Deal Through
108 First Variation (Jon Racherbaumer)
109 Second Variation (Ed Marlo)
110 Third Variation (Ed Marlo)
111 Fourth Variation (Ed Marlo)
113 Open Prediction - Switch Method
114 Latest Spectator’s Open Prediction (Ed Marlo, Millard Lichter)
115 The Unwritten Prediction
117 S.S. Open Prediction (Gene Nielsen)
116 Part Three - Satiricon
118 Cardmanship (David Bendix)
120 Further Cardmanship (David Bendix)
122 Excerpt from the Adventures of Harry Inane (Jon Racherbaumer)
124 In Search of a Name (Harry Lorayne)
128 Lester Overton - Tragic Hero (David Bendix)
130 Ask the Millwright (Clarence Irving Gaff)
132 La Fleury, Pagan Cardicienne (David Bendix)
134 Dove Dopping From All Over
134 Card Miracle Extraordinare (Jerry Andrus)
137 Excerpt From a Dialogue Overheard At a Convention (Jon
Racherbaumer)
138 We're Going to Chicago (Jack Liuso)
145 Footnote to Ferris (David Bendix)
145 Part Four - Cardless in Gaza
145 Coin Concatenation (Larry Austin)
149 Professor's Incubus (Roger Sylwester)
151 Chinese Enigma (Roland Hurley)
155 Notes on the Ball Vase
156 Vase Finesse (Roland Hurley)
156 Automatic Boston Box (Roland Hurley)
159 Tibettan Checkers (Jules DeBarros)
163 Part Five - Congeries of Collectors
163 Marlo's Initial Collectors
168 Tilt Collectors (Ed Marlo)
170 Dingle's Collectors (Derek Dingle)
173 All You Have to Do is Watch (Ed Marlo)
176 All You Had to Do is Watch and Still You're Not Happy (Ed Marlo)
179 Those Collectors Again (Ed Marlo)
181 Ambush (Roy Walton)
183 Easy Ambush
184 Clean Ambush (Ed Marlo)
185 Let's Ambush and Kill the Collectors (Ed Marlo)
187 Collect Double (Ed Marlo)
190 Part Six - 16 Ways To Look At Sandwiches
190 A Lay Person Makes His Own (Ed Marlo)
192 Bluff Sandwich (Ed Marlo)
193 Dunbury Sandwich (Robert Walker, Dave Solomon)
195 Flash Sandwich (Jon Racherbaumer)
196 Eyed Jack Sandwich (Jon Racherbaumer)
198 Late-Nite Sandwich (Reinhard Muller, Alex Elmsley)
199 Delayed Sandwich (Ed Marlo)
200 Have Another Sandwich (Ed Marlo)
202 Off Shoot (Jon Racherbaumer)
203 No-Force Vanish and Recovery (Jon Racherbaumer)
206 Pre-Peeked Deuce Sandwich (Ed Marlo)
208 Split Sandwiches (Ed Marlo)
211 Selling A Sandwich (Ed Marlo)
213 A Sandwich Approach (Ed Marlo)
216 Royal Divers (Ed Marlo)
218 Signature Transposition (Ed Marlo)
223 Part Seven: Estimations
223 The Too-Perfect Theory (Rick Johnsson)
229 13 Ways Of Looking At Criticism
230 Albert Goshman - Boob On The Tube?
231 A Dialogue With Merritt
238 An Open Letter To Nick Trost
240 Faro Fantasy, Finagling, and Paul Swinord (Jon Racherbaumer)
242 Vernon, Gibson, and Sharpe (Jon Racherbaumer)
245 Dunbury's Delusions (Jonathan Dunbury)
245 Riffs By Christ
247 Graffiti
247 Publisher’s Postscript - A Riposte Rather Than A Rip-off (Jon
Racherbaumer)
250 Part Eight: Mentalmazements
250 Card-Nundrums (Jon Racherbaumer)
251 Friendly Persuasion (Roy Walton)
253 Air Mail Prediction (Ed Marlo)
253 Marlo On The Christ Force
255 Another Visit (Ed Marlo)
261 Original R and B Phantom (Ed Marlo)
263 Simplex or Complex (Ed Marlo)
265 The Chicago Miracle (Ed Marlo)
269 Pocket Princess (Roy Walton)_
270 Si Stebbins Sorcery (Ed Marlo)
274 Si Stebbins On The Road (Ed Marlo)
275 1840 Prediction (Ed Marlo)
278 999 Miracle (Ed Marlo)
278 The Princess Trick
281 The Joker Reads Minds (Ed Marlo)
284 Thoughts On Money Power (Paul Swinford)
285 Three Square Deal Duplicated (Marvin Johnson)
286 Blue Intruder Strikes Again (Jon Racherbaumer)
288 Variation and Feat (Charles Hudson)
290 Visible Phantoms (Ed Marlo)
292 Who's Hockley? (Ed Marlo)
294 You Did It Again! (Ed Marlo)
295 Part Nine: Killer Apps
295 Four-Ace Foolery
295 Ace-Cutting Without Double-Cutting (Dave Bendix)
296 Black Aces - Red Kings (Steve Freeman)
298 Four Ace Stop (Ed Marlo)
299 Almost Like Trick Cards (Ed Marlo)
300 This Is A Four-King Trick (Ed Marlo)
301 Jump-Jump Aces (Ed Marlo)
303 Castillon-Olram Aces (Eugene Castillon)
307 Nomad Aces (Ed Marlo)
309 Pack Stabbing
309 Ad-Jacent (Simon Aronson)
311 The Stabbing Myth (Jon Racherbaumer)
313 Sid's Super Stab (Sid Marshall)
315 Arch Triumphs
315 No-Turn Triumph (Ed Marlo)
317 King’s Triumph (Larry Jennings)
319 Kato’s Trick
319 Over Here, Of Course! (Ed Marlo)
321 Fly Me To The Moon (Ed Marlo)
324 Gone To Earth (Roy Walton)
326 Swinford On "Over Here, Of Course!"
326 Signed or Unsigned Cards To
326 I Won’t Even Look (Ed Marlo)
328 New Aces To Pocket (Ed Marlo)
329 Quadruple Fingertip Cards To Pocket (Ed Marlo)
331 Logical Challenge Cards To Pocket (Ed Marlo)
334 Laser Card To Pocket (Ed Marlo)
335 Repeat Signed Card To Card Case
336 Signed Card Transposition (Ed Marlo)
338 Twists and Turns
338 Hamman Twist (Brother John Hamman)
341 Twist Again (William Miesel)
343 Tickfaw Twist (Robert Walker)
344 Wheeling Three (Joe Destefano)
345 Tunnel Trickery
345 Krenzel’s Tunnel (Ken Krenzel)
347 Dingle’s Tunnel (Derek Dingle)
351 Liars For Hire
351 Notes On The Lie-Speller (Ed Marlo)
353 Unknown Speller (Ed Marlo)
357 Lie-Detector Speller (Simon Aronson)
360 Liar’s Fortune (Jon Racherbaumer)
362 All Backs Tacks
362 The Wrong Deck (Ed Marlo)
364 Pardon My Backs! (Jon Racherbaumer)
366 Intermezzo Stuff
366 Lasso-Due-Tre (Ed Marlo)
369 Hands Off Reverse (Hideo Kato, Jon Racherbaumer)
371 Almost Making It (Jon Racherbaumer)
375 Fickle Card's Fingered Fate (Allan Ackerman)
376 Viet Nam Trick (Bruce Cervon, Dai Vernon)
378 One Fantastic Move (Ed Marlo)
387 Melding Pot (Ed Marlo)
389 The Missing Hour (Ed Marlo)
392 Surprise Packet (Ed Marlo)
392 In Case Of A Miss (Ed Marlo)
394 A Quickie (Ed Marlo)
395 Exhibitionism (Ed Marlo)
395 Cased-In Disappearance (Ed Marlo)
399 Black-Hole Switcheroo (Ed Marlo)
401 Notes On a Miracle (Ed Marlo)
408 Wheeling and Dealing
408 Sober Slop Shuffle (Ed Marlo)
410 Additions to Marlo's "Matching Miracle" (Jon Racherbaumer)
412 Index
