# 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

| Title | Year | Pages |
| M | 1994 | ? |
| Binary Count Notes | 1969 | ? |
| Blocking Off | ? | ? |
| Bob Hummer's Collected Secrets | 1980 | 106 |
| Bob Ostin's New Submarine Card | 1983 | 40 |
| Calculator Tricks | 1998 | 130 |
| Card Counting | 1982 | 48 |
| Card Under Glass | 1979 | 24 |
| Cards #1 Four-card Brainwave | 1978 | 20 |
| Cards #2 51 Faces North | 1978 | 24 |
| Cards #3 Interlock | 1980 | 72 |
| Cards #4 Side Steal | 1981 | 60 |
| Cards #5 The Multiple Shift | 1989 | 48 |
| C | 1998 | 55 |
| Combo II | ? | ? |
| Command Colors | 1997 | 22 |
| Contemporary Handkerchief Magic, part 1 | 1987 | 30 |
| Contemporary Handkerchief Magic, part 2 | 1987 | 28 |
| Contemporary Rope Magic, part 1 | 1986 | 28 |
| Contemporary Rope Magic, part 2 | 1986 | 28 |
| Contemporary Rope Magic, part 3 | 1986 | 28 |
| Covenant | 1987 | 29 |
| Crooked Tales | 1994 | 129 |
| Cryptology | 1979 | 24 |
| Curioser | 1980 | 61 |
| Deceptive Practices | 1992 | 83 |
| Deceptive Practices, Supplement | 1992 | 28 |
| Downs on Malini | ? | 11 |
| NSOM : Dr Ken Krenzel's Incredible Card Tunnel | 1975 | 6 |
| Easy to do card tricks for children | 1989 | 47 |
| Easy to do magic tricks for children | 1974 | 90 |
| Epilogue | 1993 | 312 |
| Faro and riffle technique | 1976 | 90 |
| Faro and riffle techniques | 1969 | 46 |
| Faro and riffle technique; Supplement 1 | 1970 | 10 |
| Faro and riffle technique; Supplement 2 | 1970 | ? |
| Faro and riffle technique; Supplement 3 | 1970 | ? |
| Faro possibilities | 1967 | ? |
| Faro possibilities | 1979 | 36 |
| Four color problems | 1979 | 24 |
| Fourcast | 1981 | 36 |
| Fr Cyprian's TV card rise | 1982 | 40 |
| Gambler's third lesson | 1979 | 16 |
| Gene Finnell's card magic | 1973 | 76 |
| Hardcore aces | 1983 | 12 |
| History of the brainwave principle | 1983 | 100 |
| Hocus Poker Fulves | 1982 |
| Hofzinser's Card Tricks | ? | ? |
| Hofzinser Notebook | 2003 | 87 |
| Impromptu holdouts | 1977 | 50 |
| Impromptu openers | 1979 | 8 |
| Inner sanctum | 1979 | 48 |
| Jack in the Box | 1979 | 24 |
| Jacob Daley's Notebooks (transcr. Csuri) | 1975 | 194 |
| Kaleidoscope Rope | 1989 | 50 |
| Kannibal Kards | 1975 | 8 |
| NSOM : Karl Fulves Technicolor Cards | 1974 | 6 |
| Magic Book | 1977 | 195 |
| Methods with Cards, part 1 | 1975 | 80 |
| Methods with Cards, part 2 | 1975 | 80 |
| Methods with Cards, part 3 | 1975 | 80 |
| Mexican Monte | 1972 | 32 |
| Millennium Aces | 1981 | 92 |
| Money Moves | 1989 | 34 |
| More Self-working Card Tricks | 1984 | 136 |
| Mutus Nomen | 1988 | ? |
| Neale's Trapdoor Card | 1983 | 12 |
| New Card Rises | 1996 | 62 |
| Notes from the Underground | 1973 | 61 |
| Nyria Effect | 1979 | 24 |
| Octet | 1981 | 76 |
| Origins | 1981 | 56 |
| Packet Switches (part I) | 1976 | 56 |
| Packet Switches (part II) | 1973 | 56 |
| Packet Switches (part III, Harvey Rosenthal) | 1977 | 76 |
| Packet Switches (part IV Gene Maze) | 1977 | 72 |
| Packet Switches (part V Gene Maze) | 1977 | 70 |
| Pallbearers Review volume 1-4 | 1993 | 290 |
| Pallbearers Review volume 5-8 | 1993 | 390 |
| Pallbearers Review volume 9-12 | 1993 | 380 |
| Parallel Lines | 1980 | 40 |
| Principles of Riffle Shuffle Set-ups | 1968 | 30 |
| Prolix | | |
| Prototype | 1989 | 50 |
| Punch out Puzzle Kit | 1982 | 24 |
| Quick Card Tricks | 1989 | 50 |
| Riffle Shuffle Control | 1979 | 23 |
| Riffle Shuffle Methods | 1987 | 49 |
| Riffle Shuffle Set-ups | 1973 | 98 |
| Riffle Shuffle Set-ups | 1976 | 98 |
| Riffle Shuffle Technique Preliminaries, Notes, Problems | 1971 | 22 |
| Riffle Shuffle Technique Preliminary Notes, part 1 | 1972 | 22 |
| Riffle Shuffle Technique, part 1 | 1975 | 12 |
| Riffle Shuffle Technique Preliminary Notes, part 2 | 1973 | 60 |
| Riffle Shuffle Technique, part 2 | 1975 | 10 |
| Riffle Shuffle Technique, part 3 | 1984 | 92 |
| S-C contemporary money magic no 1, Robert E Neale's short change wallet | 1985 | 21 |
| S-C contemporary money magic no 2, Max Londono's After max | 1985 | 16 |
| S-C contemporary money magic no 3, Harvey Rosenthal's two and two | 1985 | 16 |
| S-C contemporary money magic no 4, Howard Wurst's paper money | 1985 | 16 |
| S-C contemporary money magic no 5, Robert E. Neale's bill tube | 1985 | 16 |
| S-C contemporary money magic no 6, Howard Wurst's simplex switch | 1985 | 16 |
| S-C contemporary money magic no 7, Nick van Selter's one hand turnover | 1985 | 16 |
| Secret Session, part one | 1987 | 29 |
| Secret Session, part two | 1987 | 28 |
| Secret Session, part three | 1987 | 28 |
| Self-working Card Tricks | 1976 | 113 |
| Self-working Close-up Card Magic | 1995 | 120 |
| Self-working Coin Magic | 1989 | 136 |
| Self-working Handkerchief Magic | 1989 | 184 |
| Self-working Mental Magic | 1979 | 121 |
| Self-working Number Magic | 1982 | 145 |
| Self-working Paper Magic | 1985 | 147 |
| Self-working Rope Magic | 1990 | 148 |
| Self-working Table Magic | 1981 | 122 |
| Setting up Exercises | 1995 | 111 |
| Shape Changers | 1979 | 44 |
| Shuffle off | 1983 | 12 |
| Six Impromptu Card Tricks | 1982 | 48 |
| Swindle & Cheat - a collection of nontransitive games | 1991 | 71 |
| Teleportation Notes | 1969 | 8 |
| Teleportation Notes | 1979 | 24 |
| The Best of Slydini and More, vol 1 (text) | 1976 | 108 |
| The Best of Slydini and More, vol 2 (photos) | 1976 | 126 |
| The Book of Numbers | 1971 | 47 |
| The Book of Numbers, Supplementary Notes | 1971 | 19 |
| The Children's Magic Kit | 1980 | 16+16 |
| The Magic of Slydini and More, vol 1 (text) | 1976 | 108 |
| The Magic of Slydini and More, vol 2 (photos) | 1976 | 126 |
| The Magical World of Slydini, vol 1 (text) | 1979 | 101 |
| The Magical World of Slydini, vol 2 (photos) | 1979 | 176 |
| The Return Trip | 1986 | 39 |
| The Shamrock Code & the Parallel Principle | 1979 | 48 |
| Topological False Count | 1979 | 18 |
| Transpo Trix | 1978 | 80 |
| Trick with Dice | 1970 | ? |
| Vampire Chronicles | 1997 | 92 |
| Vampire Papers | 1997 | 45 |
| When Psychics Play Poker | ? | ? |
| Wireless II | 1982 | 48 |
| Word Play | ? | ? |
| Worknotes on Brainwave | 1983 | 20 |
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.