Vol. 28, no. 2 (Autumn 1984)
| Editor-in-Chief | John Fricke |
| Production Editor | Dan Smith, Lynne Smith |
| Bibliography Editor | Peter E. Hanff |
| Review Editor | Douglas G. Greene |
| Contributing Editors | Martin Gardner, Michael Gessel, Michael Patrick Hearn, Dick Martin, Dorothy Curtiss Maryott, Patrick Maund, Ethan Mordden, Douglas Rossman |
Front cover art by Michael Herring (Kabumpo in Oz)
Back cover art by unknown artist (Scarecrow “Par-T-Mask”)
Autumn 1984 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.
From the Editor
New editor John Fricke introduces himself and announces the production of Disney’s new film Oz (later Return to Oz).
Dorothy Gage and Dorothy Gale
Sally Roesch Wagner describes how much L. Frank Baum adored his wife, Maud. Toward the article, she discusses the possibility that Frank named his most famous creation after Maud’s sister’s child Dorothy, whose death at five months old devastated Maud.
Librarians, Editors, Critics, Children and Oz
The final portion of an article by Ruth Plumly Thompson, written to commemorate the centennial of Baum’s birth in 1956 but never published. Other portions were published in the Bugle (under other titles) in the Winter 1981, Spring 1982, and Winter 1982 issues.
Oz on Display
This is a special facsimile of the original Ozmapolitan “newspaper” from 1963, which Reilly & Britton used to promote Merry Go Round in Oz. Earlier facsimiles from 1904, 1926, and 1927 were published in the Spring 1963, Autumn 1966, and Winter 1977 issues.
Oz Under Scrutiny: The Emerald City of Oz, The Patchwork Girl of Oz, and Tik-Tok of Oz
The editors look at reviews of L. Frank Baum’s sixth, seventh, and eighth Oz books contemporary with their original publication. Includes vintage advertising. These selections would be revisited and expanded in the Winter 2010, Autumn 2013, and Autumn 2014 issues.
She Manufactures Hash and Gives the Boarders a Few Pointers on the Aberdeen Guards
A reprint of one installment of L. Frank Baum’s Our Landlady newspaper column from May 31, 1890.
Reviews
Ripley’s Believe It or Not (Oz Segment) (TV broadcast; reviewer John Fricke)
The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature from Irving to Le Guin by Brian Attebery (non-fiction; reviewer Michael O. Riley)
Tamawaca Folks / A Summer Comedy by L. Frank Baum (fiction; reviewer Michael Patrick Hearn)
The Wonderful World of Oz / The Works of L. Frank Baum, His Successors and Illustrators by Books of Wonder (catalog; reviewer Dan Smith)
Dorothy and the Green Gobbler of Oz by Romeo Muller (fiction; reviewer Rob Roy MacVeigh)
The Blue Emperor of Oz by Henry S. Blossom (fiction; reviewer Richard Paul Smyers)