Gag Cards

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Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue A Fantastic Spell spectator spells out blank card, nude card and other funny cards Prepared Cards and Accessories 9
Jean Hugard, Frederick Braue The Delayed Bombshell message on card "So sorry. We all make mistakes. It's the next card." Prepared Cards and Accessories 10
Don Alan A "Long" Card Trick gag, long card rises from cased deck, then miniature card appears, puns Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1950) 28
Bobby Bernard Miko Prediction die to get a number, 3 1/2 card gag Magic in Miniature 4
Karrell Fox C-Thru Card window in card with clear plastic layer for word gag Comedy a la Card 10
Karrell Fox The "Blushing" King King with a red face for gag Comedy a la Card 16
Karrell Fox Spotz Four of Hearts selected, Five of Hearts found but one Heart is cut out Comedy a la Card 10
Karrell Fox Komical Cards: A "Marxed" Card picture of Groucho Marx on back of card for verbal gag, originally from New PhoenixRelated to Comedy a la Card 16
Karrell Fox It's a "Scorcher" lit match held under deck to expand selection, instead it comes out with edges burnt Comedy a la Card 16
Karrell Fox It's Done with Mirrors mirror on card, "you selected a queen" Comedy a la Card 19
E. Leslie May One Over the Eight gag with 15 of Diamonds, spectator apparently drunk HEX! 49
Henry Bihari, Jerry Mentzer Comedy Elevator Aces with three gag cards with messages/pictures on them, rattle bar, battery powered buzzer, four duplicate Aces, tiny screwdriver Cards and Cases 47
Unknown The 3½ of Clubs No. 56, ungaffed with Three of Clubs and half dollarRelated to Self-Working Card Tricks 86
Karrell Fox Almost, Complete Coverage gag in which the selection is the only card missing in 52-on-1 card/policy card Clever.... Like a Fox 81
Karl Fulves Dial A Deck Dept "gag" with phone dial on back design Interlocutor (Issue 37) 146
Al Leech Crooked Card card changes to a crooked card Al Leech's Legacy 38
Stephen Tucker Geiger Find selection is found by using other card as Geiger Counter, deck ends up blank and geiger card becomes "52 on 1" card Spell-Binder (Vol. 1 No. 6) 107
John Fells, Ramon Varela Three Into One Won't Go three Ace of Clubs shown, faces and backs change (using a three-on-one gag card), adapted from Ramon Varela (Misdirection magazine, 1964) Pabular (Vol. 7 No. 1) 976
Unknown Comedy Five of Clubs Seven of Clubs cut off so that only five pips show Simple yet Effective Tricks with Cards 12
John Brown Eject card that looks like the cassette recorder, pressing buttons to change something in the deck, presentation for ambitious card, rising card and other Spell-Binder (Vol. 2 No. Special #1 (Summer)) 15
Stephen Tucker Mr. Universal thoughts on Universal Card plot, with printed gag cards (13 of spades, 3 1/2) Spell-Binder (Vol. 3 No. 27) 515
Martin Lewis The Very Odd Card Various transformations with packet of cards, end with "odd" card with messed up pipsInspired by Martin's Miracles 101
Karrell Fox, Mickey Ostaski A "Hare-Raising" Illusion male picture card chosen, when it is eventually found, it has grown a beard For My Next Trick... 135
Sid Lorraine An American Expression "Two Tricks"
blank card with credit card print		 The Chronicles (Issue 34) 1398
Karl Fulves Miko credit information on the 3,5 of Clubs trickRelated to Verbatim (Issue 5) 38
Bob King Seeing is Believing performer blindfolded for full routine
Phase I: a card pocketed and another selected
Phase II: selection found at named small number
Phase III: two more cards divined, using 52-on-One and 3-1/2 gag cards
Phase IV: four Aces dealt in poker round
Phase V: pocketed card named		 The Breather 2 22
John Scarne, Karl Fulves Spell Purple spelling red, black, suits with packet, ending with "purple" written on a card, see also p. 47VariationsAlso published here Rigmarole (Issue 2) 18
Ron Rennick Shades sun glasses put on table as prediction, card chosen by counting black cards in one pile and counting down in another pile, it is the King of Spades with stuck-on sun glasses Rigmarole (Issue 3) 34
William P. Miesel Spell Green spelling red, black, suits with packet, ending with "green" written on a card as well as a rainbow carInspired by Verbatim (Issue 6) 58
Unknown The Random Card character "Charlie Random" on blank card, is next to selection The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 7) 21
Unknown Miko specially printed card that is not described in text The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 7) 22
Chester Morris Comedy Cards to Pocket Seven of Spades with bottom two pips cut off, Seven and Five of Spades forced for two-phase routine The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 7) 4
Frederick Braue Scrambled Thoughtwaves spectator thinks of his selection, yet a blank card, then scrambled up card and then card with image of girl show upInspired by
  • Clayton Rawson plot
 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 7) 7
Frederick Braue Who, Me? blank card with message by murderer is found between aces in deck, story presentationInspired by The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 7) 9
Unknown Fourteen of Spades The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 7) 21
"Senator" Clark Crandall Pip Pip blank card instead of Four of Spades produced, four single Spade pips removed from pocket The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 7) 23
Karl Fulves The Brooklyn Card Trick "tree of hearts" The Vampire Papers 118
Shedoo Reve, Elrae Sekao Party Pooper gag, card with king sitting on toilet, royal flush, names are anagrams of Ed Voorhees and Earle Oakes The Trapdoor - Volume Three (Issue 64) 1279
Unknown Ermintrude - The Mind-Reading Joker! Joker first says "I've no idea", then hold mini card of selection Simon Says! 132
Simon Lovell The World's Only Blue-Backed Double-Faced Card! gag
- Bonus Magicians-Only Gag Number One
- Bonus Magicians-Only Gag Number Two		 Simon Says! 149
Doug Conn ESJoker odd-backed Joker pushed in deck, cards on either side divined and actually written in talk-bubble on Joker Tricks of my Trade 15
Shaun Robison Ace-O-Rama! Aces produced, after twisting card appears within, repeat with 52-on-1 gag card, deck is now blank Son of Simon Says! 95
Joseph K. Schmidt Computer Virus Killer "A Novel Revelation of Two Thought Cards"
two spectators think cards from a five-card and six-card group, involving virus gag card
- The History (credit information and references)		Inspired by
  • "Brain Twister" (Ben Braude, Hugard's Magic Monthly, Oct. 1946)
Variations		 Latter Day Secrets (Issue 10) 429
Karl Fulves Down Sizing "Unexplained"
52-on-One gag card, turned over and only black cards, turned over and only clubs, and so on until selection remains, posed as a problem		 Prolix (Issue 4) 253
Peter McKinnon The Blackpool Prediction named card apparently travels into card case, only gag message found inside
- WTF!?! (case shown empty in advance)
- BottomFeeder		Related toVariations The Blackpool Prediction 7
Steven Hamilton, Vic Allen Blank Jaks card chosen and signed, four double-blank cards, on one appears a 52-on-1 card, the signed selection on another, whole deck blank-faced thenInspired by The Magic of Steven Hamilton 102
Steve Beam Longing for the Selected Card selected card apparently found in deck, it becomes longer as it is pulled out, handling for the long card created by Tom Sellers & Harold BeaumontInspired by
  • "Long Card Comedy" (Tom Sellers, The Magic Want Yearbook, 1948-49)
  • "Stretching a Card" (Harold Beaumont, Marketed effect, 1952)
 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 10 48
Tomas Blomberg Torn Uncut Card Sheet uncut sheet which contains all the cards of the deck, magician rearranges the pieces of the sheet to make a previously selected card disappear from it, "52 on 1 Gag"Inspired by Blomberg Laboratories 130