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 The Marvelous Land of Oz. Evidence seems to point to Baum as the author. It is the first of several to follow.
Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz
Thanks to Sunday Press, in 2009, for the first time since they debuted in The Philadelphia Syndicate (from August 28th, 1904 to February 26th 1905), Baum's Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz newspaper strips was reprinted in their original size, format, and with Walt McDougall's original artwork. (Over the years, The Baum Bugle had reprinted much of McDougall's work, albeit in a far smaller size that rendered the text difficult to read). Along with Baum's strips, this oversized volume also includes Denslow's competing Oz strips from 1904, Scarecrow and Tinman, as well as his Billy Bounce.
History
In 1960, Reilly & Lee
took
eleven of the 26 newspaper strip stories, and had them re-edited and rewritten by Jean Kellogg,
and re-illustrated by Dick Martin. It's title shortened to The
Visitors from Oz, the text adds a contradictory scenario where the Ozian
travelers meets Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. This version does 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. Published
as The Third Book of Oz by Armstrong Press (and later again by Buckethead Enterprises of Oz), this
publication featured illustrations by Eric Shanower, replacing both Dick
Martin's illustrations and Walt McDougall's, which proved impractical to
reproduce in a smaller size. The Third Book of Oz, so named for its
chronological place in canon, 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 answers to the
ubiquitous contest question, "What did the Woggle-bug say?"
This 2005 volume from Hungry Tiger Press included for the first time in a 100 years the twenty-six complete and unedited American newspaper strip stories written by L. Frank Baum. This edition restored the original text, but had to eliminate McDougall's artwork for practical purposes, and instead included 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.
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. It was re-illustrated by Eric Shanower and reprinted in the The Third Book of Oz by Armstrong Press and Buckethead Enterprises of Oz. This version is currently in print in an unedited edition entitled The Visitors from Oz published by Hungry Tiger Press. A reprint of the original edition is also available on www.Lulu.com.
Continuity Notes: As per the text, these adventures take place in the summer of 1904. Regarding the adventurers’ uncharacteristic use of magic, and the Wogglebug’s four arms, retcons are required. A case could be made that perhaps Ozma and Glinda equipped the adventurers with special abilities for use on their travels throughout America. Considering the events of Beach Blanket BabylOz (wherein Scarecrow becomes lifeless upon entering the mortal worlds), some kind of magical protection seems likely. As regards Wogglebug's extra arms, no tale has yet been told. One could chalk it up to artistic interpretation, or perhaps the natural life-cycle of the Wogglebug (or perhaps he himself had them surgically/magically removed to appear more human). In various publicity articles published prior to the strips' appearance in the paper, the Ozian visitors are shown to fly by various planets and star systems. Baum seems to indicate that Oz lies outside the solar system. This is, however, a controversial view, and the reason some discard his newspaper strips from canon. As of yet, no retcon has been devised to explain this.
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