Karl Fulves

Karl Fulves (27 July 1938 - 16 February 2023) was a magician and author and editor of publications on magic, including the Pallbearers Review, a series of books on sleight of hand and close-up magic.

Career
There was not much known about Fulves other than his high output of magic literature in books and periodicals.

Self-working magic series
Fulves is most well known for a series of ten short books about self-working magic published from 1976 to 1995 by Dover Publications and illustrated with line art by Joseph K. Schmidt. The first, Self-Working Card Tricks, detailed 72 magic tricks using standard playing cards and intended for amateur magicians without the need to perform sleight of hand. Most of the tricks involve the mathematical properties of a standard deck or glimpsing a "Key Card" at the start of a trick that follows the spectator's card throughout the deck's manipulation.

The first follow-up published in 1979 as Self-Working Mental Magic with 67 mind-reading tricks. Volumes on table magic and number magic published in 1981 and 1982. A direct continuation to the series' first entry published in 1984 with the title More Self-Working Card Tricks, and an entry on paper magic followed in 1985.

The series would return in 1989 with two entries covering handkerchief and coin magic, an entry about rope tricks in 1990, and then conclude in 1995 with Self-Working Close-up Card Magic.

Periodicals
Fulves published many periodicals over the years including Charlatan, Underworld accompanied by Fine Print, Interlocutor, and Midnight Magic Monthly.


 * List of periodicals published by Karl Fulves:

Alfredson/Daily - Fernandes numbers, titles, year of publication and number of issues in a complete file:


 * 5510...Pallbearers Review, original series, ?–1965, 22 issues
 * 5515...Pallbearers Review, 1965–1975, 120 issues
 * 58955..Rigmarole, 1993–1994, 10 issues
 * 6055...S-C, 1985, 7 issues
 * 65703..Swindle Sheet, 1990–1992, 10 issues
 * 69206..Underworld, 1995–1999, 10 issues
 * 69800..Verbatim, 1993–1994, 10 issues

Karl Fulves' current publications, started in 1999, are Discoverie, Charlatan and Latter Day Secrets.

Published works
Fulves wrote the text for a number of the Stars of Magic manuscripts, including Chris Capehart's 3-Ring Routine, Joe de Stefano's Chinatown Poker, Max Londono's Eternal String, Metalogic (Fred Baumann) and David Roth Okito Box routine.

Death
On November 3, 2023, Fulves's son Ben posted on Genii Forum that his father had died on 16 February 2023.