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The Baum Bugle: Christmas 1962

Vol. 6, no. 3 (Christmas 1962)

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 W. W. Denslow (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

Christmas 1962 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 Toys and Games of Oz

Dick Martin briefly describes numerous toys, dolls, and games available up to that point, including a few items from the 1950s and early ’60s that would later fade into obscurity.

 

Oz Abroad Again

More Oz from Russia

—And Still More Oz

 

Three responses/addenda to material in the August 1962 issue, from Ruth Berman, David L. and Douglas G. Greene, and the editors, discussing additional international Oz books.

 

Nelebel’s Fairyland

A complete short story by L. Frank Baum, reproduced from Baum’s own scrapbook. The story originally appeared in the San Diego-area student newspaper The Russ in 1905.

 

A Christmas Present for Ozma

A poem by Ruth Plumly Thompson.