From this page you can access content overviews for every issue of The Baum Bugle published from its inception in 1957 to 1959. Members with current subscriptions will also have access to selected archive content, which is reproduced online with the original authors’ permission. Any such articles will be linked within the overviews by their title.
If you are looking for a particular article that is not online, or you wish to search the full content of The Baum Bugle by title, author, or subject, please take a look at the index for Volumes 1–45 (1957–2001) by Frederick E. Otto and Dr. Richard R. Rutter. Our Baum Bugle editorial staff will also be happy to assist you with questions by email at [email protected].
Historical note: In the 1950s, The Baum Bugle was not yet “a journal of Oz.” Instead, it was a simple newsletter for The Wizard of Oz Fan Club (not yet The International Wizard of Oz Club), overseen by an enthusiastic teenage boy for fewer than twenty members. However, from the very first issue, Justin G. Schiller was collaborating with Oz fans and scholars as wide-ranging as L. Frank Baum’s sons, Frank J. and Harry Neal Baum; authors Russell P. MacFall and Martin Gardner; and of course, the second Royal Historian of Oz herself, Ruth Plumly Thompson. Artist Dick Martin’s arrival in 1959 not only helped the Bugle to build a visual identity, it presaged the direction the Oz book series itself would go in the early 1960s. The Bugle ended the decade with twice as many pages, including serialized fiction, full-page features, and its earliest bibliographical examinations—all achieved in just three short years and seven issues.
Volume 1: 1957
ed. Justin G. Schiller
No. 1: June
No. 2: October
Volume 2: 1958
ed. Justin G. Schiller
No. 1: March
No. 2: October
Volume 3: 1959
ed. Justin G. Schiller
No. 1: May
No. 2: August
No. 3: Christmas