Monday, May 6, 2024

COSMIC DEBRIS: Amazing Feats of Komar the Hindu Fakir!



From an online listing for the April 1973 issue of Occult: New Dimensions of Life in the Field of Psychic Phenomena, a slick looking magazine put out by Popular Library, we find an article by Brad Steiger on the performer Komar the Hindu Fakir, aka Vernon Craig. Steiger would use parts of this article as a chapter in his pseudonymous 1974 title The Occult in the Orient, as well as a book called Life Without Pain co-authored with Craig in 1979.



Meanwhile, the striking cover art for Steiger's The Occult in the Orient came from this September 1971 issue of Occult magazine which also promised work by Steiger, as well as Susy Smith:


Issues of Occult magazine are asking hefty prices online, otherwise one may be tempted to see how many recycled Steiger offerings are at hand ...

Popular Library, 1973

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