Today I continue my series of posts, where I share different Master Mystery Exhibitors’ Ads from my personal collection:

• Houdini Talks About Himself and the Master Mystery
• Ruth Stonehouse Writes Plays When Only Six
• Houdini’s Tame Eagle in “The Master Mystery”
• The Triumph of Science. A Mechanical Man with a Superhuman Brain
• By Request of Hoover Houdini Chaffs Miss Marsh
• Kidnapped into Pictures
• Handcuffs I Have Met
• Houdini Breaks Own Record in “The Master Mystery”
• Why “The Master Mystery” is a Sure Record=Breaking Serial
• $25 for Houdini’s Secret
• Houdini Made the Kaiser Apologise. The Great Mystic a Victim of Hun Arrogance
• About Publicity

Today I reveal that the Master Mystery Exhibitors’ Ads came from the back two pages of the extremely rare “Houdini Herald” in my collection.

It was 2014, when I first learned about a 4-page “Houdini Herald” [published as a supplement in Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly] and saw the front two pages via the following WildAboutHarry post:

• WILD ABOUT HARRY: The Houdini Herald

Ten years later, I added a “Houdini Herald” to my collection and could see what was on the back pages.

Note: My “Houdini Herald” was mailed separately and not tipped in Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly.

Related:

• Kinematograph & Lantern Weekly Master Mystery Supplements – FEB 6 1919

In January and February of 1925, Houdini played Zanetti at the Hippodrome Theater, New York, NY.

To celebrate, thought I would share a 100 year old review (from my personal collection) of the matinee that took place on February 9, 1925.

Related:

• Early Release – The Zanetti Mystery Plus
• The World Wide Houdini Birthday Celebration – The Zanetti Mystery

Bonus:

Below are 2 pages from the book, “The Zanetti Mystery Plus Candidates for ghostwriting the story”, that I first published in December of 2021.

 

The first year (Kinema Comic 1920) of  the serial, The Amazing Exploits of HOUDINI, is now available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk

Product Description:

The British Boys weekly “The Kinema Comic” ran a serial “The Amazing Exploits of HOUDINI” (“Written by Houdini Himself” – or so it says) from April 24, 1920 to November 27,1926.

In these yarns, which no one should miss, the Master of Mystery chronicles his most amazing exploits.

Surviving copies are almost impossible to come by these days.

Joe M. Notaro and Arthur Moses have been tracking down these rare issues and are making them available to you in a book series by year.

In this offering, they have compiled the 1920 (Apr – Dec) weekly serials (36 issues) of “The Amazing Exploits of HOUDINI” into a single book (with original illustrations).