Vol. 16, no. 3 (Christmas 1972)
| Editorial Staff | David L. Greene, John Fricke, James E. Haff, and Peter E. Hanff (uncredited) |
Layout by John Fricke
Wraparound cover art by Dick Martin, adapted from endpapers by John R. Neill (Ozma of Oz)
Christmas 1972 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 Oz Film Manufacturing Company (Part 1)
Richard Mills gives a detailed account of the creation of L. Frank Baum’s Hollywood studio, as well as the production of The Patchwork Girl of Oz, including the original story synopsis sent out for publicity. Includes a handful of rare photographs. The second half of this article would be presented in the Spring 1973 issue.
Bibliographia Baumiana
Dick Martin collates bibliographical data about the early printings of Baum’s non-Oz books. This installment focuses on The Army Alphabet and The Navy Alphabet. A more expansive bibliographic examination would eventually be published in the Winter 2001 issue.
Eliza and the Lozenges
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 Enigma of Button-Bright
Daniel P. Mannix attempts to answer the question of Button-Bright’s provenance, while acknowledging him as the most interesting of Baum’s boy characters. (Why does he keep getting lost? Perhaps “like Greta Garbo, he wants to be alone.”)
The International Wizard of Oz Club and its Journal
David L. Greene, John Fricke, James E. Haff, and Peter E. Hanff chronicle the first fifteen years of The Baum Bugle: who did what behind the scenes, when, and where, and how they see the journal continuing into the future.