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“You’ll do this one every day.”

St. Peter’s Lesson

St. Peter’s Lesson

St. Peter’s Lesson. The trick that should win the academy award! All about Mike & Ike and what happened when they reached St. Peter’s gate. A cute trick with a terrific surprise ending! You’ll do this one every day. It’s great! Price..50¢

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“But wait! That’s not all.”

The Floating-Dancing Handkerchief

The Floating-Dancing Handkerchief

Hanky floats, jumps, dances as tho’ alive!!!

A beautiful trick! Easy to do! Baffling! Mysterious! Astonishing!

Here’s a magic effect that’s truly a miracle. You hold hankie up by corner, fondle it, talk to it and then command it do dance as you shake it a bit near the floor. Suddenly it floats up, jumps and starts to dance like mad. You can make it waltz, fox trot, rumba and even rock n’ roll. Amusing, amazing, unbelievable! But wait! That’s not all. While it is dancing you can even walk away from it, even down into audience, and it will continue to dance as if bewitched. Best of all it will dance according to the commands you give it. Especially entertaining when set to music. A big surprise. Very uncanny!

Dancing Hanky $1.00
Obeys your commands!

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“Amaze and mystify your friends!”

Nickels Change to Dimes!

Nickels Change to Dimes!

Amaze and mystify your friends!

Nickels to dimes!

Cover 4 nickels with Magic Cap and P-R-E-S-T-O! Nickels vanish and 4 dimes appear! Cap may be examined! You can do it! No skill needed! The Magic Cap does the trick for you! Precision built! Rush $1.00 today! Satisfaction guaranteed.

Price only $1.00
A beautiful trick! Easy to do!

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“Easy to do but most baffling.”

Amazing Finger Chopper Trick

Amazing Finger Chopper Trick

Quite Easy To Do

The same blade that chops a cigarette in half leaves your finger unharmed. First insert a cigarette in each hole. Chop – and they’re both cut in half instantly. Then you place another cigarette in one hold and your finger in the other. Chop again – and the cigarette is slashed in half but your finger is untouched. This is precision apparatus as a new low price. Formerly made only in $5.00 and $10.00 models. Easy to do but most baffling. You can do it. Complete with full instructions.

Only $1.00

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“…all sorts of queer and comical expressions.”

Secret Wonder Mirror

Secret Wonder Mirror

Same principle as expensive mirrors used by police for secret viewing of prisoners. When viewed from one side it looks and reflects like an ordinary mirror, yet on your side you can see right through it and secretly observe everything that goes on. Dozens of uses. Can be inserted in doors so you can see who is outside without their knowledge. Can also be used as a funny face mirror for when curved it will distort faces into all sorts of queer and comical expressions. A useful and handy item to have around. Unbreakable.

Absolutely amazing! … 50¢

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“Vanishes faster than a woman can change her mind.”

Vanishing Key Mystery

Vanishing Key Mystery

50¢
GONE

(Astonishing and baffling yet easy to do)

This trick is so perfect it requires only a few words from me. Hold it up and presto-it’s gone. Now you see it-now you don’t. Vanishes faster than a woman can change her mind. I do this trick all the time. Clever and convincing magic. Carry it in your pocket and you can always do magic anytime-anywhere.

Please add 25¢ postage and handling on all orders
Rush your order today!

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“Be the Life of the Party!”

Lit Cigarette Vanishes and then reappears!

Astonish Everybody!

Lit Cigarette Vanishes and then reappears!

With sleeves rolled up, you make a lighted cigarette vanish! Not a trace remains! Then, like a magician, you reach into the air and presto! Cigarette reappears! Actually 2 tricks in one! You can also make bills, pencils disappear too! Easy to do! Astonish everyone! Be the Life of the Party! Order at once.

1.00

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It’s fun to be fooled, but it’s more fun to fool others.

Fun • Magic • Mystery
(from a 1961 issue of Unknown Worlds)

Fun • Magic • Mystery

It’s Fun to be fooled — but it’s More Fun to fool others

Multiplying Billiard Balls
Loaded Cigars
St. Peter’s Lesson
The Floating-Dancing Handkerchief
Nickels Change to Dimes!
Amazing Finger Chopper Trick
Secret Wonder Mirror
Vanishing Key Mystery
Lit Cigarette Vanishes and then reappears!

Send all orders to The House of a Thousand Mysteries
Dept. AC5-61
Trumbull, Conn.

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Beat Down the Flames

Adventures of the Lee family.
Mike Lee and his sons, Tom and Danny, save a forest.
Lee ad found in Thor #196 (1972)

I have a theory about this ad. When the rangers arrive, they find the Lee family has perished after their cotton clothing caught fire. Two of the last three panels show the forest in pristine pre-fire condition, which indicates that the Lee family is in the afterlife and blissfuly unaware of their horrific deaths. 

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You had me at “Modern Trampoline Construction”

Bicycle Windshield
From a 1961 issue of Unknown Worlds.

I’m guessing the primary purpose of this device was to make it easier for bullies to determine who to kick the crap out of.

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