Footnotes 2
The 2nd book in the Famous Forty
The Seven Blue Mountains of Oz: Book 1: The Disenchanted Princess of Oz
This book spans over a period of 80 years starting in 1902 during the events of “Marvelous Land of Oz”.
(This story appears in The Corn Mansion of Oz)
The Mysterious Chronicles of Oz
Titular characters make an appearance in Baum's 'Roads to Oz'.
Title character makes an appearance in Baum's Road to Oz.
Available in the Best of Baum Bugle collection, this four page “newspaper” was issued by Reilly & Britton as part of the publicity surrounding “Marvelous Land of Oz”. Evidence seems to point to Baum as the author. It is the first of several to follow.
This 2005 volume from Hungry Tiger Press includes for the first time in a 100 years the twenty-six complete and unedited American newspaper strip stories written by L. Frank Baum and published by the Philadelphia Syndicate from August 28th, 1904 to February 26th 1905. This recent edition restores the original text and includes Shanower's illustrations (from both editions of The Third Book of Oz) as well Baum's follow-up story from The Woggle-Bug Book called, The Unique Adventures of the Woggle-bug. Originally, these were illustrated by famed artist Walt McDougall, and The Baum Bugle over the years has reprinted much of the original artwork (to date, McDougall's Oz illustrations have not been collected).
History
In 1960, Reilly & Lee published
eleven of these stories in a re-edited version by Jean Kellogg (re-illustrated by Dick Martin)
also called "The
Visitors from Oz" with mixed results (click the link for more info.).
This version did not include the story from The Woggle-bug Book, "The Unique
Adventures of the Woggle-bug." Note: Neither version bears any
resemblance to the original story written by Martin Gardner entitled Visitors
from Oz. For information on that book, see
here.
Many years later,
the
Queer Visitors strips were re-visited yet again, this time by Eric Shanower, Hugh Pendexter III
and Martin Williams
and published
as The Third Book of Oz by Armstrong Press (and again by Buckethead Enterprises of Oz). This
publication featured illustrations by Eric Shanower, but changed the text to
remove the racial slurs extant in the original publication. This edition
was also the first to incorporate the follow-up story from The Woggle-Bug
Book entitled The Unique Adventures of the Woggle-bug, albeit heavily
edited to remove the racial slurs as well as to incorporate the answers to the
ubiquitous contest question, "What did the Woggle-bug say?".
Continuity Note: As per the text, these adventures take place in the summer of 1904. Regarding the adventurers’ uncharacteristic use of magic (not to mention the Wogglebug’s four arms), a case could be made that perhaps Ozma and Glinda equipped the adventurers with special abilities for use on their travels throughout America (and in an attempt to appear more human, Wogglebug might have later shed his two extra arms). Through various publicity articles (in which the visitors fly-by various planets and star systems) published prior to the strips' appearance in the paper, Baum seems to indicate that Oz lies outside the solar system.
The Unique Adventures of the Woggle-bug
(From “The Woggle-bug Book”)
This story takes place after the end of the “Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz” newspaper strips in February of 1905. This story was re-illustrated by Eric Shanower and reprinted in the “The Third Book of Oz” by Armstrong Press and Buckethead Enterprises of Oz and the text is currently in print in an unedited edition entitled The Visitors from Oz published by Hungry Tiger Press..
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