Vol. 12, no. 1 (Spring 1968)
| Editorial Staff | David L. Greene, Douglas G. Greene, and James E. Haff (uncredited) |
| Editorial Adviser | Dick Martin (uncredited) |
Layout by James E. Haff and Douglas G. Greene
Wraparound cover art by Dick Martin, adapted from advertising postcards (Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz)
Spring 1968 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.
Mugwumps and Wogglebugs
L. C. Dobbins pens a three-page biographical sketch of artist Walt McDougall.
Those Elusive Visitors
Martin Williams attempts to follow the publication history of Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz.
How the Wogglebug Proved His Knowledge of Chemistry
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 1904.
The “Wonderland of Oz” Comic Strip
Douglas G. Greene briefly investigates the 1932–33 comic strip by Walt Spouse. Includes two strips from the sequence adapting The Land of Oz. Accompanied by an inferior reproduction of two pages of the 1938–40 reprint, taken from the Tik-Tok of Oz sequence, in which the original captions were replaced by speech balloons.
Bibliographia Baumiana
Dick Martin collates bibliographical data about the early printings of L. Frank Baum’s non-Oz books. This installment focuses on Dot and Tot of Merryland. This assessment would be revised and expanded in the Winter 1988 issue.
Bibliographia Oziana
James E. Haff, David L. Greene and Douglas G. Greene collate bibliographical data about the early printings of the Oz books. This installment focuses on The Scalawagons of Oz, Lucky Bucky in Oz, The Magical Mimics in Oz and The Shaggy Man of Oz. Corrections to this installment were printed in the Autumn 1968 issue.
In Memoriam
Bert Lahr (actor, MGM’s The Wizard of Oz) and Roland G. Baughman (collector).