Ed Marlo: Marlo's Magazine, Volume 4
Marlo, Ed: Marlo's Magazine, Volume 4
©1980 Ed Marlo
Softcover, comb-bound, 8.5x11", 349 pages
Marlo's Magazine Volume 4
Image courtesy eBay seller MackiesAttic

Comments: Cover "A Tribute to Marlo's Punch Deal" by John Kurtz; cover production George Valko.

Contents (from TheMagicFiles.com, no longer active):

i Solomon's Mind (David Solomon)
ii Foreword
ii Control Throw-Off - Approach 1
iii Control Throw-Off - Approach 2
iii Control Throw-Off - Approach 3
iii Slip Cut Removal
iv Eidetic Change - Approach 1 (Jon Racherbaumer)
iv Eidetic Change - Approach 2 (Geoffrey Latta)

1 Best Kept Card Technique Secret - 40 Years
1 The Marlo Punch Deal
1 Putting in the Work
2 Feeling & Dealing
4 The Routine & Presentation
6 Aces & Kings or Jacks & Queens
7 The Multiple Combination
7 The Pushoff Second Deal
9 Aces at Any Number
9 The Punch Cut
10 The Edge Mark Cull
11 Steve Draun's Idea (Steve Draun)
11 One Way Combination Deal
13 A Tip for Mental Over Physical
13 Nelson's Punched Cards (Bob Nelson)

14 The Card to Case
14 On the Card to Case - Method 1
15 On the Card to Case - Method 2
16 On the Card to Case - Method 3
17 On the Card to Case - Method 4
18 Solomon's Original Method
19 On the Card to Case - Method 5
20 On the Card to Case - Method 6
22 On the Card to Case - Method 7
24 On the Card to Case - Method 8
24 On the Card to Case - Method 9
26 On the Card to Case - Method 10
26 On the Card to Case - Method 10 - Variante
27 On the Card to Case - Method 11
28 On the Card to Case - Method 12
31 On the Card to Case - With a Borrowed Deck
32 The Other Solomon Original (David Solomon)
33 Marlo's Variation
34 Solomon's Variation
34 Marlo's Suggestion
35 Manual Method 1
37 Manual Method 2
39 Manual Method 3
42 Manual Method 4
43 A Combination Method
44 Manual Method 5
45 Baltazar Fuentes' Method (Baltazar Fuentes)
47 Suggested Alternatives
48 Full Palm to Card Case
51 Count Cop Method
53 Manual Method 6
54 Manual Method 7
56 Manual Method 8
57 Manual Method 9
58 Manual Method 10
62 Vernon's Change - Adding a Retention of Vision
63 More Thoughts on Card To Case 1
64 More Thoughts on Card To Case 2
64 More Thoughts on Card To Case 3

67 More Revolutionary Chapters

67 Double Undercut Palm
67 Double Undercut Palm - Method 1
68 Double Undercut Palm - Method 2
70 An Application to the Daley Switch
71 A Clean Procedure
72 The Art Altman Technique (Art Altman)
73 The Marlo Technique
76 Single Cut Center Steal
78 Double Reverse & Transposition
79 Undercut Shuffle Reverse
81 Undercut Shuffle Reverse - Altman's Technique (Art Altman)
82 Single Cut Top Palm
83 Double Reverse & Transposition - Variation 1
85 Double Reverse & Transposition - Variation 2
86 A Palming Tip

86 Palmartistry
86 Palm Replacement
88 Palm Replacement as a Color Change
89 The Spider Return
89 The Pickup Replacement
90 One Hand Palm & Spread
92 The Invisible Capping

95 The Fingertip Steal
98 The Instant Trap
99 Another Fingertip Side Steal

100 The Marlo Card Clip
100 Four Ace Reverse
102 One at a Time
104 A Color Change
105 The Appearance
106 An Optical Illusion
107 Single (?) Card Change
109 As an Exchange
110 Ungaffed Tosheroon
112 Visual Poker Hand Change
114 As an Ace Effect
116 Sudden Interlaced Vanish
117 No Duplicates
118 Borrowed & Face Up
119 Interlaced Transposition
120 The Undercut Clip
121 The Sandwich Transposition
123 A Ribbon Spread Tip - Method 1
123 A Ribbon Spread Tip - Method 2

124 False Counts
124 1st False Count - Counting Less as More
127 1st False Count - Counting More as Less
128 2nd False Count - Counting Less as More
129 3rd False Count - Counting Less as More
130 4th False Count - Counting More as Less
132 5th False Count - Counting Less as More
134 6th False Count (A Re-loading Count)
140 7th False Count - Counting Less as More
142 Flexible Count - Combination 1
142 Flexible Count - Combination 2
142 Flexible Count - Combination 3
143 Flexible Count - Combination 4
143 Flexible Count - Combination 5
144 Opec Four - Method 1
145 Opec Four - Method 2
146 Opec Four - Method 2 - Variante
147 The Marfoe Count - Combination 1
148 The Marfoe Count - Combination 2
150 The Marfoe Count - Combination 3
151 The Marfoe Count - Combination 4
151 The Marfoe Count - Combination 5
152 The Marfoe Count - Combination 6
153 The Marfoe Count - Combination 7
153 Count Conjuring

157 Turndown Reverses
157 Turndown Reverse - Method 1
159 Turndown Reverse - Method 2
161 Turndown Reverse - Method 3
162 More Turndown Reverse - Method 1
164 More Turndown Reverse - Method 2
167 More Turndown Reverse - Method 3
168 Multiple Reverse
169 Henry Christ's Turndown Reverse - Variante
172 An Approach to D.F. Aces

173 Updating Revolutionary Chapters

173 The Pass
173 The Tabled Charlier
176 Marlo's Combination Pass
180 Bold Tabled Shift - Method 1
182 Bold Tabled Shift - Method 2
183 Notes on Bold Tabled Shifts
185 The Table's Edge
187 Another Combination Pass
189 Additional Observations
191 A Tip on the Pass

192 Marlo's Havana Deals
192 Marlo's Havana Deal - Technique 1
194 Marlo's Havana Deal - Technique 2
195 Marlo's Havana Deal - Technique 3
196 Marlo's Havana Deal - Technique 4
197 Marlo's Havana Deal - Technique 5
197 Marlo's Havana Deal - Technique 6
199 One Hand Bottom Deal - Technique 1
201 One Hand Bottom Deal - Technique 2
201 One Hand Bottom Deal - Technique 3
202 One Hand Bottom Deal - Technique 4
203 A Card Case Tip

205 Combination Card/Packet/Deck Switches
205 Marlo Card Switch
206 Suit Selection Location
207 To Switch One Card at a Time
208 They Don't Remember
209 Mental Over Physical - Original Method
210 Mental Over Physical - Method 2
211 Mental Over Physical - Method 3
212 Mental Over Physical - Method 4
213 Packet Switch 1
215 Packet Switch 2
217 Packet Switch 3
219 The Torn & Fully Restored Card

222 More Deck Switches
223 Ringing in the Deck
223 Taking the Deck Out of Play
223 Before & After Rest Position
224 Deck Switch 1
225 Deck Switch 2
226 Deck Switch 3
228 Deck Switch 4
228 Deck Switch 5

230 Dissertation on a Slip Cut
232 Top Card Slip Cut
233 The Secret Slip Cut
234 Secret Slip Cut Transposition
235 The Fingertip Slip Cut
236 The Raised Marnese False Cut
238 One Hand Bottom Slip Cut Technique 1
239 One Hand Bottom Slip Cut Technique 2
240 One Hand Bottom Slip Cut Technique 3
241 One Hand Bottom Slip Cut Technique 4
242 Table Bottom Slip Cut
243 As "A Three Card Monte"
244 A Tip on the Secret of the High Rise

245 Audience Tested Plot Effects
245 The Visual Poker Routine - Method 1
248 Commercial Poker
253 A Presentational Angle
254 The Joker Switch (Mel Brown)
255 The Card Through the Knee (James Nuzzo)
258 No Pass Ace X Ace
262 Straightline Transport
271 A Multiple Shift Tip

272 The Key Move
272 Red & Black Packet Switch
273 Two Card Jump
275 Key Move Extension
276 Double Odd Thought
277 Pseudo Deck Switch

278 O.K. Let's Play
278 O.K. - Let's Pay - Game #1
279 O.K. - Let's Pay - Game #2
280 O.K. - Let's Pay - Game #3
281 O.K. - Let's Pay - Game #4
282 O.K. - Let's Pay - Game #5
283 O.K. - Let's Pay - Game #6
284 Full Deck Olram Subtlety
286 Bold Olram Subtlety
287 Flexible Hindu Count
288 The Future Classic Transition
290 The Jimminy Cricket Count 1
290 The Jimminy Cricket Count 2
291 The Jimminy Cricket Count 3
291 The Unknown Card or It Can't Be - Method 1
295 The Unknown Card or It Can't Be - Method 2
296 Mental Effect - Note 1
297 Mental Effect - Note 2
297 Mental Effect - Note 3
297 Mental Effect - Note 4
298 The Card-Puter (Bob Veeser)
303 Vanish (Bob Veeser)

301 Bonus - Ace Effects
301 Olram's Ultimate Blues
306 Gaffed Go Back Aces - Method 1
310 Gaffed Go Back Aces - Method 2
313 Gaffed Go Back Aces - Method 3
318 Real Gone Come Back Kings
327 Neo Ace Assembly - Method 1
332 Neo Ace Assembly - Method 2
336 Neo Ace Assembly - Method 3
337 Neo Ace Assembly - Method 4
338 Neo Ace Assembly - Method 5
340 The Inverted Assembly
344 The Solmar Reversed Acembly (Edward Marlo-David Solomon)
347 Alternative Handlings
348 Presentation Angle
349 A Change in Handling (David Solomon)


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