Vol. 15, no. 2 (Autumn 1971)
| Editorial Staff | David L. Greene, John Fricke, James E. Haff, and Peter E. Hanff (uncredited) |
Layout by John Fricke
Front cover art by Dick Martin, adapted from an unused jacket design by Dirk Gringhuis (The Hidden Valley of Oz)
Back cover art by Dick Martin, adapted from an advertisement (cut-out paper Woozy)
Autumn 1971 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.
The Fifth Royal Historian
John Fricke looks briefly at the writing career of author Rachel R. Cosgrove (later Rachel Cosgrove Payes) subsequent to her publication of The Hidden Valley of Oz. Includes a couple of substantial quotes.
Rachel Cosgrove in Oz
Edward Wagenknecht takes a look at The Hidden Valley of Oz on its twentieth anniversary and comes away impressed.
Dirk Gringhuis
Fred M. Meyer presents a brief biographical sketch of the illustrator credited only as “Dirk.” Includes a new quote from the artist, as well as a special new illustration for the Bugle.
Bibliographia Baumiana
Dick Martin collates bibliographical data about the early printings of Baum’s non-Oz books. This installment focuses on L. Frank Baum’s Juvenile Speaker and Baum’s Own Book for Children. A revised and expanded examination would later be published in the Winter 1996 issue.
A Magnetic Personality
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.
The Writing of Two L. Frank Baum Fantasies
Using newly discovered correspondence between Baum and his publishers, in 1912, as his basis, David L. Greene reveals hitherto unknown aspects of the creation of The Patchwork Girl of Oz and John Dough and the Cherub.
Bibliographia Pseudonymiana
Douglas G. Greene collates bibliographical data about the early printings of Baum’s works published under a pseudonym. This installment focuses on “Floyd Akers’s” The Boy Fortune Hunters in Alaska.
The Meaning of “Oz”
Jay Delkin looks at the changing nature of the famous word within Baum’s own books, where, of course, it was originally used to designate the Wizard, not the country he governed (which was, instead, far more literally “the land of Oz”).