The Linking Ring

List of Magicians featured on the cover of past issues

Monthly Features/Columns

• Hocus In Focus is the journal review section, listing reviews of a wide array of books, marketed effects and utility devices as well as magic related videos.
• Our Side of the Pond
• Come A Little Closer A column which ran during the 1970s, heavily focused on close up magic; written by Rick Johnsson.
• The Expert at the Tech Table
• The President's Page
• Hocus Pocus Parade is the title of a regular column which appears in The Linking Ring, published by The International Brotherhood of Magicians. Although the table of contents usually lists the specific contributing magician's name. the column itself is still named Hocus Pocus Parade.
• Ring Reports is a collection of monthly reports, submitted by the Ring Reporters for each respective IBM Ring.
• Situationally Yours
• Memoirs of a Magician's Ghost: The Autobiography of John Booth
• Marcom...from the table of my memory
• Potter's Bar – a series of columns included 1952-1969 by Jack Potter giving bibliographic references to periodical and book descriptions of magical effects by category. They were later collected and published as ''The Master Index to Magic in Print.

  Editors Emeriti

• Phil Wilmarth
• Howard Bamman