Besides the seven-page, behind-the-scenes story on Cesareo and the troupe, May features included Rory Johnston's review of David Copperfield's 15th special, Fires of Passion; Peter Warlock and Mike Caveney's look at the inventor of the Multiplying Billiard Balls, Vanishing Bird Cage, Spring Flowers, Expanding Die, and Vanishing Lady in "Buatier de Kolta: Genius of Illusion" ; and Anne White's report on the "end of an era" with the closing of New York's Mostly Magic club. In addition, Paul Kostrach, a Louisville, Kentucky magician, whose story about a young magician, an innocent prop that was not so innocent, and something called "The Faustus Effect" won him third place from over 50 entries in the first annual MAGIC Fiction Contest.

Rounding out this 21st issue of MAGIC was an interview with Franz Harary, who explained the reasons for exposing his production of seven girls and a submarine on the CBS show, How'd They Do That? Franz warned that producers were hunting for illusions to give away and that, if not careful, the secrets to effects like Sawing and Metamorphosis would fall to television exposure. Less than five years later, the warning became reality when Fox began airing the Masked Magician specials.

May 1993 is the earliest back issue still available. It is only one of two issues from that year on sale, the other being July 1993 with the tale of two contest and two winners, Carl Cloutier and Tim Conover.

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