Vol. 11, no. 2 (Autumn 1967)
| Editors | Dick Martin and Fred M. Meyer (uncredited) |
Layout and cover design by Dick Martin
Wraparound cover art by Dick Martin, adapted from an advertisement by John R. Neill (The Oz Toy Book)
Autumn 1967 Selected Contents
This is a guide to the articles and reviews from the issue that will most benefit researchers, scholars, and collectors. The printed issue includes additional content such as news, editorial letters, and other commentary-based departments.
Jack Snow
Justin G. Schiller pens a biographical sketch of the fourth Royal Historian of Oz.
The Crystal People
Chapter 8 of Jack Snow‘s unfinished draft of The Shaggy Man of Oz, presented with a brief introduction by Fred M. Meyer. This chapter was reprinted alongside chapter 7 (the only other one to exist), a longer contextual introduction, and new illustrations in the Spring 2022 issue.
Jack Snow’s Horror Stories
Ruth Berman looks at Jack Snow‘s darker works and compares them to his Oz stories.
Tim Nichols and the Cat
A reproduction of one installment of L. Frank Baum and Walt McDougall’s Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz newspaper comic page in 1905.
Bibliographia Oziana
Dick Martin collates bibliographical data about the early printings of the Oz books. This installment focuses on Ojo in Oz, Speedy in Oz, The Wishing Horse of Oz and Captain Salt in Oz.
Bibliographia Baumiana
Dick Martin collates bibliographical data about the early printings of L. Frank Baum’s non-Oz books. This installment focuses on American Fairy Tales. A revised and expanded examination would appear in the Spring 1990 issue.
The Magical Map of Oz
Fred M. Meyer briefly discusses two unexplored places on the original 1914 Oz map—which leads into the announcement that the Club is now selling its own map (still a great crowd-pleaser!).
In Memoriam
Harry Neal Baum (the “last living link” to L. Frank Baum, his third of four sons).