Govan, Barry, Ian Baxter, Murray Cooper, Gerry McCreanor: The Blueprint Vol 5 July 1978 - June 1979 ©1978-1979 Barry Govan, Ian Baxter, Australia Softcover, comb-bound, 8.5x11", 48 pages

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Comments: Volume 5 of an Australian magic monthly magazine. Note that editorship of the magazine was taken over by Murray Cooper and Gerry McCreanor starting with the 6th issue of this volume. Available as an eBook from Lybrary.com.

Contents (from ebook edition, page numbers per volume)

1 Volume 5, Number 1, July 1978
1 The Cardsharps Apprentice (Barry Govan): gambling routine
3 Patter for..The Cardsharps Apprentice
Blueprint In Print (Ian Baxter): positive review of Paul Harris Supermagic book
4 The Blueroom (Govan, Baxter): notes on the Overland Mystery Plot; psychic Doris Stokes; Abbotts Behind the Scenes With the Mediums

5 Volume 5, Number 2, August 1978
5 Control Ace Transpo (Derek Martin): impromptu card routine
6 Blueprint In Print (Ian Baxter): generally positive review of The Card Classics of Ken Krenzel, authored by Harry Lorayne.
7 The Seven Routine: a dice routine using three dice
8 The Blueroom (Govan, Baxter): Cy Enfield's pocket typewriter; William Goldman's Magic novel; New magazine The Oracle; Magnet information; Roy Hopwood's engagement; Whodunit? Houdini? fiction; Hocus Pocus magazine
 
9 Volume 5, Number 3, September 1978, Danny Tong Issue
9 Copper Silver Brass (Danny Tong): using just three coins, with an optional phase two using a C/S coin
10 Notes on the Card in the Wallet (Danny Tong): wallet is wrapped with rubber bands
11 One Two Three (Danny Tong): named card reverses in packet and becomes the original selection
12 The Blueroom (Govan, Baxter): Lee Noble, Jeff Busby, more on The Oracle, general news

13 Volume 5, Number 4, October 1978
13 Chinese Linking Rings (Percy Laidler): part one, using a standard set
15 A Tricky Quicky (Barry Govan): face up card turns face down and then into the selection
15 Blueprint In Print: positive review of John Mendoza's The Book of John
16 The Blueroom (Govan, Baxter): Harry Riser's new book; thoughts on convention reviews, Forks Hotel for sale; Ted Tyzack health news; Harold Webster's invisible dog; lecture prices

17 Volume 5, Number 5, November 1978
17 Flapjack (Phil Goldstein): commercial sandwich effect
18 Blueprint In Print: moderate review of J.C. Wagner's Seven Secrets
19 Chinese Linking Rings (Percy Laidler): part two, the Drop Move, a subtle move
20 The Blueroom (Govan, Baxter): announcement of editorial change to Murray Cooper and Gerry McCreanor

21 Volume 5, Number 6, December 1978
21  The Empty Move (Tom Gagnon): show cups empty while keeping a ball concealed for the cups and balls
22 Blueprint In Print: Positive reviewo Earl Nelson's Variations, and positive review of Shigeo Futagawa's Introduction to Coin Magic
23 A Coin Change (Murray Cooper): for two coins
24 The Blueroom (Cooper, McCreanor): comments from readers on the change in editors; Lloyd Jones Son of Bat Jr.; thanks to Barry Govan and Ian Baxter

25 Volume 5, Number 7, January 1979
25 The Traveling Dice (Barry Govan): dice at four corners end up under a silk together
26 The Growing Coin (Murray Cooper): nickel grows in value to a silver dollar
27 Blueprint In Print: positive review of Ron Wilson's "It's The Little Things; moderate review of Johnny Thompson's Polished Polish Prestidigitation.
28 The Blueroom (Cooper, McCreanor): Magician Tom Tulp; Barry Govan; TV psychic show

29 Volume 5, Number 8, February 1979
29 Blueprint's Advice to the Card Manipulator: cartoon
30 Monied Thought (Barry Govan): envelope and coin prediction
31 The Missing Card (Barry Govan): AD vanishes from packet and is found reversed in the pack
32 The Blueroom (Cooper, McCreanor): Magic defined; Do As I Do in Goldman's Magic; Lee Dunkley and Peter Aldridge obit; Kevin Robinson recovery

33 Volume 5, Number 9, March 1979
33 The Master Cups & Balls (Govan, Cooper, McCreanor): routine using a standard set of cups and four balls

37 Volume 5, Number 10, April 1979
37 Loc-Ace-tion (Harry Lorayne): four ace location
38 Fantasy in Colour (Woody Landers): located selection has a different colored back
39 Blueprint In Print (Barry Govan): positive review of Shigeo Takagi's Coin Routine; positive review of Fulves Self Working Card Tricks.
39 The Face Down Card (Andrew Simpson): gag
40 The Blueroom (Cooper, McCreanor): Lorayne, Apocalpse and Quantum Leaps; Father Cyprian and magic in the minds of the spectator applied to Landers' Fantasy in Colour

41 Volume 5, Number 11, May 1979
41 Thumb Coin Vanish (Garry O'Brien): coin vanish
42 High Speed Aces (Phil Goldstein): Ace assembly
43 Blueprint In Print: positive review of Fred Braue on False Deals;
43 Crooked Dice: how to make them, introduction
44 The Blueroom (Cooper, McCreanor): Ken Brooke's Magic Place and Frank Farrow; Ian Baxter engagement; death of Perc Boden; George Daily's Magic Collector's Bulletin; P. Howard Lyons' IBIDEM; more news

45 Volume 5, Number 12, June 1979
45 The Flying Dice (Murray Cooper): dice vanish from under a dice cup
47 The Red-Backed Card (Dino Proctor): easy card trick
47 Blueprint In Print (Murray Cooper): positive review Racherbaumer's Arch Triumph;
48 The Blueroom (Cooper, McCreanor): on Joker's Wild trick; Australian trick coins; other magic news