Craig Conley, Fredrick Turner, and I have recently released a reader's guide to The Jinx. You can browse THE JINX COMPANION online for free, and if you like it, order a printed or PDF version for offline use. If you have the collected Jinx but haven't studied it, you're missing out on magic's greatest magazine. We hope that our guide will inspire you to mine its depths.

For more info and to read THE JINX COMPANION, visit http://www.mysteryarts.com/jinx/

Thanks!

For those of you already familiar with The Jinx, any guesses as to which trick this Jinx Companion snippet is describing?

"It uses a time travel premise and ends with an algebraic formula which, when viewed in a mirror, reveals a selected card."

Thanks for the link to Amazon. I just ordered 3 copies for "Santa" to give to my pals!

Alternatively, the entire Jinx is available on CD in indexed and searchable format is available from Houdini Magic as is the Phoenix and New Phoenix. Similarly, the complete files of The Bat and TOPS are available from The Miracle Factory. A google search will probably reveal digitized files of many of the other historic periodicals as well. While they may not have the intrinsic value to collectors as the original documents, they offer an invaluable resource for the historian and researcher.

Thanks very much, Colonel Clark! We hope you enjoy The Jinx Companion and use it find many of the treasures that Annemann left for us.

Dick, you're right, the PDF copies of The Jinx are a fine approach. The Jinx CD from Houdini's is readily available at most magic shops. If you don't want a CD-ROM, then http://www.lybrary.com sells a nice set of full scans. And finally, Ask Alexander from the Conjuring Arts Research Center has all the issues online, too.

Bottom line, it's never been easier to get your hands on The Jinx.

This looks like a lot of fun. Hopefully a review copy will appear in my que

This is very cool!

Thanks Gordon.

I received a couple of answers privately. I think it's more fun if you answer here. Another quiz will follow shortly.

But the answer to this one is Stuart Townsend's "The Time Formula." Read about it on page 28, in the Forcing chapter, of The Jinx Companion, here:
http://www.mysteryarts.com/jinx/#p28

If you're on Twitter, follow along with The Jinx Companion as we tweet snippets pertaining to Annemann's masterwork. @jinxcompanion

http://twitter.com/jinxcompanion#

What do George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and William Jennings Bryan all have in common, in regards to The Jinx?

Are THE JINX and THE PHOENIX available in hard format? as the NEW JINX (that I have)
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Luca,

Yes, but both are out of print. I also enjoy books on paper (though digital versions are wonderful research aids).

The Jinx was published in 3 hardcover volumes. These have been slowly rising in price on the used market, but pricing varies and you may still find a bargain.

The Phoenix was published in 6 hardcover volumes and should not be hard to pick up. Magic Inc has volumes 1, 5 and 6 available on their website, but if I were looking I would try to buy a full set from someone who has moved on to the digital version.

Also, the New Phoenix is published in 2 softcover comb-bound volumes by Magic Inc and is still available there: http://www.magicinc.net/search.aspx?find=phoenix

Although nobody asked about Pabular, I was recently surprised to find that the 4 hardbound volumes are still available from Viking Magic: http://www.vikingmagic.com/?keywords=pab......&x=0&y=0

If you're looking for hardbound copies of The Jinx, try Houdini's Magic first. You might very well be able to get new copies from old stock they purchased from D. Robbins. Otherwise, as Duane said, keep an eye out on the used market.

None of them ever read it, because they were all dead when it came out.

Ha! Well, although that wasn't the answer I was looking for, Bill, you do get credit. Thanks for playing.

The answer I had in mind is that all three are featured in "The Phantom Artist," a trick from the Jinx Summer Extra 1937. In Jinx Companion we offer a fourth personality to replace the one that Annemann mentioned but never specified. See page 148: http://www.mysteryarts.com/jinx/#p148

A new quiz, courtesy of @jinxcompanion:

What are the sexes of The Jinx cats?

The answer to the quiz is in The Jinx 81.

I recently heard that Houdini's Magic in the New York, New York hotel and casino (in Las Vegas, of course) has hardbound copies of The Jinx available. They also, of course, have the disc of PDFs.

I could not find the answer on page 81 (you made me look!!) of the hardbound edition. Is your pagination from the PDF version?

Mark

My bad, ISSUE 81. Answer found. One male, one female.........

Thanks,

That got me to looking over those wonderful books again!!!

Mark