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Started: 1st Jan 1971 - No.1
Replacing: New feature
Ended: 13th May 1972 >>
Replaced by: Unknown |
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'David Nixon's Magic Box' was one of the major opening features.
Taking it's title from the series of the same name appearing on Monday
nights at the time. David Nixon was the big name in magic back then,
the early 70's Paul Daniels if you will, and one of the great pioneers of
a lot of the illusionists that went after him. I seem to remember
Anita Harris on the show (how many of you remember her?), she did a
singing spot, but although I'm unsure, I think she was his assistant too.
The
feature as mentioned, began on 9th January 1971, and was an introduction to simple magic for us budding magicians,
taking an all too small slot at the side of the 'Please Sir!' strip,
showing one or two tricks. The tricks were a mix of simple slight of
hand, or sometimes scientific and optical illusions, that you could try with
simple household objects.
The
bottom of the feature always had a puzzle slot called 'Teaser Time',
which gave a mind-bending puzzle that the reader could find the answer to
in the next issue, thereby enticing the reader to buy it.
The feature ran for a while and then took a break, when it returned on
13th May 1972 it had grown to take a full page in the comic. You can see
this full page feature by clicking 'More', in the boxes below.
Incidentally, the show returned to TV that same week, but the title had
changed to 'The David Nixon Show', the feature's name however, remained
unchanged.
The
illustrations by David Jefferis were nothing spectacular, but did the job.
and were sometimes easier to understand than the descriptions.
Another
feature which had me hooked, I couldn't wait to try the tricks every week
and astound/bore my family.
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