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Jimmy Grippo Clear Through! handkerchief put on deck and corner folded in, selection penetrates the silk
Also published here Nov. 1942
The Phoenix (Issue 23)
97
Bruce Elliott The Back Room Bill Larsen and genii rant, Jimmy Grippo, Bruce Elliott's baby
Feb. 1943
The Phoenix (Issue 28)
118
Bruce Elliott The Back Room on a show by the IBM ring NYC, John Scarne, Jimmy Grippo, how to soften a deck for back palming, two newspaper clippings from Dunninger
Related to Mar. 1943
The Phoenix (Issue 31)
130
Francis Carlyle Homing Card
Related toVariations 1947
Stars of Magic (Vol. 4 No. 2)
61
Jimmy Grippo The Grippo Grab picking off the pip with sucker element
1949 18
Harlan Tarbell, Jimmy Grippo The Card Through Handkerchief No. 148
Also published here 1950 287
Frank Joglar Backstage on Jerry Lester, Ormond McGill, Phil Thomas, Ade Duval, Clayton Rawson, Jay Marshall, Richard Himber, John Mulholland, Dariel Fitzkee, Larry Arcuri, Cliff Green, Zina Bennett, Walter Hampden, Art Linkletter, Gali Gali, Arnold Furst, Milo, Von Arx, Grover George Jimmy Grippo and more
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Apr. 1951
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 8 No. 11)
778
Bruce Elliott The Back Room on Milbourne Christopher, Lee Noble, Don Alan, Carl Rosini, George Starke, Stars of Magic, Orson Welles, Cy Endfield, Charlie Miller, Jimmy Grippo, Cardini
Jan. 1952
The Phoenix (Issue 246)
985
Paul Curry Chapter Five: The New Conjurers on Milbourne Christopher, amateur magicians, famous actors, authors and other celebrities, who did magic, John Scarne, Clayton Rawson, Jimmy Grippo
1965 65
Dai Vernon Trick With A Borrowed Deck based on a trick shown to Vernon by Jimmy Grippo, see p. 190 for clarification of final phase
Variations 1971
Magick (Issue 36)
177
Jimmy Grippo Clear Thru! handkerchief put on deck and corner folded in, selection penetrates the silk
Also published here 1972 91
Jimmy Grippo Double Lift Teaser saliva
1973 160
Erwin Schussel Joker medium stops before joker, repeated with medium in other room, story of an encounter between Jimmy Grippo and Dai Vernon
Related toVariations 1976
Magick (Issue 169)
842
Jimmy Grippo Foreword
1978
Dr. John Nichols Joker III medium stops before joker, repeated with medium in other room, story of an encounter between Jimmy Grippo and Dai Vernon
Inspired by 1979
Magick (Issue 224)
1118
Jimmy Grippo Chapter One - Card Magic chapter intro
1981 3
Jimmy Grippo Tricks Utilizing the Overhand Shuffle
1981 7
Jimmy Grippo The Spelling Bee spelling to a named card, verbal force a la equivoque
1981 7
Jimmy Grippo Will It five cards are tabled face-up and one mentally selected, cards are shuffled back and spectator counts cards from top according to value of thought of card and finds the card
1981 8
Jimmy Grippo The Riffle Shuffle with brief comments on how to control top or bottom cards
1981 10
Jimmy Grippo Misdirection comments on misdirection, example of stealing a ball from vest
1981 12
Jimmy Grippo The Turn About Cards faced deck, one phase
1981 14
Jimmy Grippo The Card Detective card is placed face up inside the deck next to selection
1981 19
Jimmy Grippo A Rising Card with variation to show card in the center at the end, card clings to first finger
1981 20
Jimmy Grippo A Vested Interest signed card ends up in performer's upper vest pocket, no palm handling
1981 22
Jimmy Grippo A Phenomenal Memory selection is shuffled in the deck and deck spread face-up, spectator places selection at different position while performer looks away, then card is found
1981 23
Jimmy Grippo Touch to the Nth Degree pocketed deck, performer divines card by touch and eventually finds selection
1981 24
Jimmy Grippo The Double Lift
1981 26
Jimmy Grippo The Ambitious Card three phases
1981 28
Jimmy Grippo Your Number? counting to named number to show the card is not there, counting again selection lies at position
1981 29
Jimmy Grippo In Reverse card found reversed in the deck
1981 30
Jimmy Grippo Other Methods of Reversing a Card
1981 31
Jimmy Grippo Follow the Leader not Follow the Leader, card chosen in deck is found reversed, using two decks
1981 32
Jimmy Grippo Right About Face five cards are removed and one mentally selected, cards placed reversed in the deck and when card is name it turns over and other four cards remain reversed
1981 33
Jimmy Grippo The Glide
1981 38
Jimmy Grippo The Key Card
1981 45
Jimmy Grippo The Cards to the Pocket ten cards
1981 59
Jimmy Grippo The Mindreader
1981 62
Jimmy Grippo An Uncanny Coincidence finding four-of-a-kind by dealing and spectator stops
1981 65
Jimmy Grippo Chapter II - Magic with Coins chapter intro
1981 72
Jimmy Grippo To Pass a Coin Invisibly From One Hand to the Other first one coin then up to four coins, four phases, through table as climax
1981 77
Jimmy Grippo A Magical Transmigration two phases, two and four coins, placing coins in closed hands and on closed fists
1981 83
Jimmy Grippo A "Spiritualistic" Effect coin production
1981 86
Jimmy Grippo Dollar to Halves Dollar changes into two Half Dollars and back
1981 90
Jimmy Grippo A Version of the Downs Palm turning hand while hiding coins
1981 96
Jimmy Grippo Golf Balls
1981 99
Jimmy Grippo The Multiplying Golf Balls
1981 104
Jimmy Grippo Chapter Four - Magic with Cigarettes
1981 110
Jimmy Grippo Cigarette Produced from a Toy Purse
1981 117
Jimmy Grippo The Magnetized Cigarette cigarette balanced on match apparently reacts to magnetism of finger
1981 118
Jimmy Grippo Cigarette Produced from Sleeve from elbow
1981 119
Jimmy Grippo A Penny Changed to a Cigarette
1981 119
Jimmy Grippo Chapter Five - Thimbles
1981 123
Jimmy Grippo The Production of Eight Thimbles "One on each of the fingers of both hands", with holder
1981 125
Jimmy Grippo Card Through a Handkerchief
Also published here 1981 158
Chapter Nine - Photo Section photos of Jimmy Grippo
1981 177
Jimmy Grippo A Word About Variation on variation in method
1981 204
Jimmy Grippo A Favorite of Jay Ose Charlier cut to straighten deck
1981 217
Richard Mark Brainstorm on Bascom Jones, Stanley Jaks, Jimmy Grippo, Maurice Fogel
June 1994
Vibrations (Vol. 16 No. 12)
5
Juan Tamariz, Moe Seidenstein, Jimmy Grippo A Phenomenal Memory performer apparently remembers a whole spread and thus identifies a chosen card that has been moved from its position
1995 145
Francis Carlyle, Philippe Socrate, Jimmy Grippo, Roberto Giobbi Homing Card Plus extension with deck to pocket
Inspired byRelated toVariations 1996 288
Jimmy Grippo Grippo's Wish kind of Slydini's Silks with one silk
1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 1 (Issue Astonishing Friends)
257
Richard Mark Chapter Two on Stanley Jaks and Jimmy Grippo
2000 29
Finally Jimmy Grippo photograph
Nov. 2008
MAGIC (Vol. 18 No. 3)
122
Roberto Giobbi, Jimmy Grippo Magic and Gambling Grippo's answer why he did not gamble
Related to
  • Frank Garcia's "Marked Cards and Loaded Dice" p.18
2010
Secret Agenda (Issue Apr 18)
119
Francis Carlyle, Eric Evans The Homing Circle
Inspired by 2012 23
Francis Carlyle, Paul Vigil, Jimmy Grippo The Homing Card
Inspired by 2014 64
Jimmy Grippo Grippo's Out-jog Pip Concealment hiding the face of an outjogged card with a bevel
Related to
  • "The Magic of Francis Carlyle"
2014 69
Jimmy Grippo, Johnny Thompson Grippo's Card to Envelope sealed empty envelope is passed through deck, then signed selection is found inside, duplicate or divided card (see reference), originally done with pocket index by Grippo
Related to 2018 119
Jamy Ian Swiss Card Vanish Suggestion using gaff instead of duplicate for clean vanish
Related to 2018 125
Alexander Boyce Card Lapping after selection is signed and apparently lost, Slydini-inspired
Related to 2021 8
Rico Weeland The Structural Problem of the Homing Card Plus "(and Alternate Endings)"
Inspired by Mar. 2022
The Hermit (Vol. 1 No. 3)
132
Roberto Giobbi, Gabi Pareras Empty Pocket - Gag Line gag line by Gabi Pareras, and application to Homing Card routine
Related to 2024
Unexpected Agenda (Issue Jan 9)
21