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The Amber Flute of Oz

 

 

Animal Fairy Tales

 

 

The Woggle-Bug’s New Clothes

 

 

The Marvelous Land of Oz

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”.

 

 

Jinjur's Journal

 

 

A Pumpkin Patch in Oz

(This story appears in The Corn Mansion of Oz)

 

 

The Mysterious Chronicles of Oz 

 

 

 

John Dough and the Cherub

Titular characters make an appearance in Baum's 'Roads to Oz'.

 

 

Queen Zixi of Ix

Title character makes an appearance in Baum's Road to Oz.

 

 

The Ozmapolitan

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?"

 

The Visitors from Oz

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”)

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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