Vol. 14, no. 1 (Spring 1970)
| Editorial Staff | David L. Greene, James E. Haff, and Peter E. Hanff (uncredited) |
Wraparound cover art by Dick Martin, adapted from art by John R. Neill (Sky Island)
Spring 1970 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.
Baum’s Other Villains
C. Warren Hollister examines Baum’s villains other than the Nome King (as he was already dissected in the Christmas 1969 issue), paying attention to how few of them truly fit a fairy tale definition of evil. Instead, Baum often rooted his antagonists in grandiosity, ambivalence, singular dedication to the wrong cause, and self-loathing.
Dorothy Spends an Evening With Her Old Friends and is Entertained With Wonderful Exhibitions
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.
Bibliographia Baumiana
Dick Martin collates bibliographical data about the early printings of Baum’s non-Oz books. This installment focuses on The Sea Fairies, Sky Island, and a newly discovered Canadian edition of Queen Zixi of Ix. The analysis of Sky Island would later be revised and expanded in the Autumn 1995 issue, while The Sea Fairies would follow in Spring 1997.
Bibliographia Pseudonymiana (here called Bibliographia Anonymiana)
Douglas G. Greene collates bibliographical data about the early printings of Baum’s works published under a pseudonym. This installment focuses on “Schuyler Stanton’s” The Last Egyptian.
L. Frank Baum Studied By McDougall
This brief article about Baum, with caricatures by Walt McDougall, is reprinted from the St. Paul Dispatch in 1904.
Reviews
The Sea Fairies Reilly & Lee 1969 edition (fiction; reviewer David L. Greene)
Queen Zixi of Ix introduction by March Laumer (fiction; reviewer David L. Greene)
The Wooden Soldiers of Oz introduction by David L. and Douglas G. Greene (fiction; reviewer James E. Haff)
The Wizard of Oz illustrated by Brigitte Bryan (fiction; reviewer David L. Greene)