Vol. 40, no. 2 (Fall 1996)
| Editor-in-Chief | William Stillman |
| Production Editor | Adele Robey |
| Bibliography Editors | Peter E. Hanff, Patrick Maund |
| Review Editor | Stephen J. Teller |
| Contributing Editors | Angelica Carpenter, Michael Gessel, David Moyer, Jay Scarfone |
Front cover art by Roland Roycraft (The Tin Woodman of Oz)
Interior front cover art by Roland Roycraft (The Wizard of Oz)
Interior back cover art by an unknown artist (advertisement for The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus)
Back cover photo by an unknown photographer (1939 department store tableaux)
Fall 1996 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.
Dust Jackets by Roycraft!
William Stillman investigates the idiosyncratic dust jacket designs Henry Regnery Company (having bought out Reilly & Lee) used to update the look of eleven books in the Oz series in 1959, as well as the mysterious artist behind their creation.
Curly Top in Oz (Part 2)
Rita Dubas provides a comprehensive examination of actor Shirley Temple’s long association with the Oz series, including her own personal interest in the stories. The second installment of the two-part article focuses on Shirley as an older child and adult, including The Blue Bird and her adaptation of Baum’s second Oz book as part of The Shirley Temple Show. The first half of this article was published in the Spring 1996 issue.
The Tin Woodman of Oz: An Appreciation
Martin Gardner analyzes several aspects of Baum’s twelfth Oz book, including the unusual plotline, Baum’s potential wordplay, the meaning of names, the use of magic, and the double-act of the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman. He also compares a few details from Baum’s original draft to the finished book. This article was originally written for the Oz Club’s Special Publications program (and a potential reprint of the novel) but was never published before the Bugle. It is followed by a selection of illustrative interpretations of the Tin Woodman from across the world, provided by Richard Rutter (an idea revisited alongside Winter 2018 issue).
Christmas in Oz
Patricia Eliot Tobias looks at connections between Christmas and Oz, including the rare mention of it in the Oz books; Christmas celebrations and traditions in the Baum, Thompson ,and Neill homes; and Christmas advertising for the Oz books.
In Memoriam
Brenda Baum (widow of Harry Neal Baum, L. Frank Baum’s third son, and hostess of the earliest Oz Club conventions in the 1960s).
Reviews
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (fiction; reviewer David Hulan)
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (fiction; reviewer Gili Bar-Hillel)
The Glass Cat of Oz by David Hulan (fiction; reviewer Nathan Faut)
Christmas in Oz by Robin Hess (fiction; reviewer Nathan Faut)
The Lunechien Forest of Oz by Chris Dulabone (fiction; reviewer Sean P. Duffley)
The Haunted Castle of Oz by Marcus D. Marcus Mébès (fiction; reviewer Sean P. Duffley)
Spectral Snow: The Dark Fantasies of Jack Snow by Jack Snow (fiction; reviewer Stephen J. Teller)