Jul. 23—Nearly 30 years later, "Batman/Houdini: The Devil's Workshop" remains a gorgeous book. Each panel and page is a full painting by artist Mark Chiarello. Stunning work and the only reason not to ...

When you think of great illusionists, Harry Houdini is at the top of the list. Few individuals in the world of magic have ever had his notoriety, built on the backs of relationships with newspapers, ...

Eighty years after his death, the name Harry Houdini remains synonymous with escape under the most dire circumstances. But Houdini, the immigrants’ son whose death-defying career made him one of the ...

The famed magician Harry Houdini guarded the secrets behind his legendary escapes from handcuffs, chains, jails, milk cans, mailbags, and water chambers. But the authors of a forthcoming book on ...

Master of the escape, conqueror of chain-wrapped contraptions, self-liberator from handcuffs and jail cells – and from his own humble roots – the great American magician Harry Houdini met his match on ...

When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly the ...

Before Houdini, written by Jeremy Holt, illustrated by John Lucas, colors by Adrian Crossa, Insight Comics, 96 pages. $16.99 Credit: Courtesy Photo Over the Fourth of July weekend, Season 3 of the ...

A book which escapologist Harry Houdini gave to a shopkeeper after the man hid him from a mob of fans is to be sold. The Hungarian-born artist had stunned a London crowd in 1908 by breaking free from ...

Christopher Sandford has written a number of biographies of rock musicians, and he splits his time between Seattle and London. One result of this confluence is the remarkable acknowledgments page that ...

Harry Houdini, the greatest escapologist the world has ever known, promised his wife that if he died before she did, he would try to return to her from beyond the grave. For a less audacious, less ...