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Words on The Midget Magician:
“If ever a magazine was a legend in its own time, you have to say that The Midget Magician falls into that category. For by whatever criteria you use, be it rarity, price, desirability, or whatever, The Midget is something special. There seems to be a sort of mystique about it, maybe because of its size (2.5 x 4 in.), maybe because it was limited to fifty complete files, and Wilf Huggins jealously guarded the rights of the subscribers; maybe because it is undeniably scarce, demanding a premium price, and probably appears on more want lists than any other magic magazine, and the want lists it isn’t on is because the collector has given up on it. Whatever the reason, The Midget is in a class by itself.” – F. William Kuethe, Jr. (1980)
“The combination of its charm, interesting contents, and very limited circulation make it a treasured possession for those lucky enough to own a file, and an item desperately and, indeed, despairingly sought by their less-fortunate brethren.” – Edwin A. Dawes (1977)
“No other writer-publisher in the history of magic did what Wilf did. Including Guy Jarrett. Anybody can produce a pretty printed page if they have the knowledge, the experience, and, most of all, the money. Wilf had only the knowledge. The rest came out of pain and scrounging. And it came out more beautiful in terms of content and typography than anything ever published on the subject.” – Robert Lund (1975)
“It can be said without exaggeration that the editorial content of The Midget compares favourably with the finest writing ever done on the subject of conjuring. A considerable portion of it is deserving of the name literature, not magical literature, but literature alone in the full sense of the word….it is as near perfection as any conjuring periodical has ever been…. Wilfred Huggins has secured for himself a place amongst the giants of magical journalism.” – Robert Lund (1957)
“With its very limited circulation, The Midget Magician must be considered one of the most exclusive magazines ever published regularly. Note the last word, which is the operative one, for there have been many publications of an exclusive nature but with no pretence to regular publication.
The editor of this tiny morsel is Wilfred Huggins, and with the first issue of vol. 2 comes an index to the preceding volume.
Congratulations, Wilfred, in putting out this pertinent little periodical, which will one day be the delight and despair of the collector.” – James B. Findlay (1954)
