GENII Magazine

Apparently The Magic Shoppe deals in collectables and magazine back issues as well as magic paraphenalia. Here Alex is holding a copy of the February '94 issue of Genii (Volume 57, Number 3) which ran a feature on Jeff McBride and the Mystery School.

The articles from that particular issue aren't online, but another review from the same year, by Gene Ira Katz in 14890 Magazine is Real Magic: The Moment of Astonishment. In 1998, Genii ran another Mystery School article, A Real Magical Experience, a review by Just Alan

Some of us have wondered why Alex apparently didn't buy the magazine, since it might have given him some background material on this guy he's hoping to interview. Maybe he already had a copy. Or maybe he didn't realize what he was looking at. Or maybe he figured he'd come back for it later. Or he just forgot about it after Skip's harangue about "no juju!".

In the end, it doesn't really matter, of course, since the fact is that the "Jeff McBride" we know in our world isn't really the same person as the "Magnus" of ArcMage, any more than the "David Crockett" who served as a senator from Tenessee and died at the Alamo was really the "Davy Crockett" portrayed by Fess Parker on television in the sixties.

We're talking mythologization here, y'know?