Vol. 31, no. 1 (Spring 1987)
| Editor-in-Chief | John Fricke |
| Production Editor | Dan Smith, Lynne Smith |
| Bibliography Editor | Peter E. Hanff |
| Review Editor | Douglas G. Greene |
| Contributing Editors | Martin Gardner, Michael Gessel, Michael Patrick Hearn, Dick Martin, Dorothy Curtiss Maryott, Patrick Maund |
Front cover photograph by Eric Carpenter (Ray Bolger as the Scarecrow)
Back cover art by John R. Neill (dust jackets for Handy Mandy of Oz and Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz)
Spring 1987 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.
“Two Pictures”
An original poem by L. Frank Baum about the fine old game of baseball, reprinted from the Chicago Sunday Times-Herald on May 17, 1896.
The Dust Jackets of Oz (Part 2)
Marc Lewis continues his bibliographical description of first edition dust jackets, this time for Ruth Plumly Thompson’s first nineteen Oz books (published 1921–39). This article continues a project begun in Spring 1986. A final installment would be presented in the Winter 1989 issue.
Bibliographia Baumiana: By the Candelabra’s Glare—1898
Bibliographia Baumiana provides bibliographical details of non-Oz works by Baum, occasionally updating past articles alongside new ones. This installment, by Peter Hanff, examines Baum’s book of verse, By the Candelabra’s Glare.
John Fricke concludes his comprehensive two-part look at NBC’s Wizard of Oz radio series, which was broadcast over six months in 1933. This second installment provides details of the final thirteen weeks of broadcast. The first half of the article was published in the Winter 1986 issue, and a brief set of publicity photographs would be published in the Spring 1991 issue.
In Memoriam
Ray Bolger (actor, MGM’s The Wizard of Oz).
Reviews
Ojo in Oz / Speedy in Oz / The Wishing Horse of Oz Del Rey editions (fiction; reviewer Cami Townsend)
The Ozoids: Limericks in Oz by Neal Wilgus (poetry; reviewer Richard Paul Smyers)
L. Frank Baumericks by Inge U. Lostdamsel (poetry; reviewer Richard Paul Smyers)
Dorothy and Old King Crow by Dorothy Haas (fiction; reviewer Chris Dulabone)
Toto in Oz by Chris Dulabone (fiction; reviewer Douglas G. Greene)
Yellow Fog Over Oz by Alexander Volkov, translated by March Laumer (fiction; reviewer Douglas G. Greene)
The Wizard of Oz Weekly Reader edition (fiction; reviewer Tom Hemr)
The Wizard of Oz illustrated by Jonathan Langley (fiction; reviewer Jean Brockway)
The Wizard of Oz illustrated by Allen Atkinson (fiction; reviewer Jean Brockway)
Walt Disney Pictures Return to Oz Book and Record (book/record set; reviewer Greg Ehrbar)