The Linking Ring

The Linking Ring

Cover from May 1962, featuring Okito
Categories	Magic
Frequency	Monthly
Founder	Ernest K. Schieldge Gene Gordon
First issue	1922; 104 years ago (1922)
Company	International Brotherhood of Magicians
Country	USA
Based in	Bluffton, Ohio
Website	The Linking Ring
ISSN	0024-4023

The Linking Ring is a monthly print magic magazine published by the International Brotherhood of Magicians (IBM) for its members since 1922. It is based in Bluffton, Ohio. In 2007, Samuel Patrick Smith, a magician, author and publisher based in Eustis, Florida, became executive editor of the magazine.

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 (e.g. "Max Maven One Man Parade"). 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 (also served as Assistant Editor)
• Howard Bamman

References