Vol. 39, no. 1 (Spring 1995)
| Guest Editor-in-Chief | Fred M. Meyer |
| Production Editor | Daniel K. Smith |
| Bibliography Editor | Peter E. Hanff |
| Review Editor | Stephen J. Teller |
| Contributing Editors | John Fricke, Martin Gardner, Douglas G. Greene, Eleanor Kennedy, Dorothy Curtiss Maryott, Patrick Maund, Evan McCord, David Moyer, Jim Vander Noot |
Front cover art by unknown artist/photographer (poster for Japanese theater production of The Wizard of Oz)
Back cover art by W. W. Denslow (“White Wings”)
Spring 1995 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.
Oz in Japan
Sean P. Duffley updates the checklist of Japanese-language translated books from the Spring 1979 and Spring 1984 issues.
“Baum’s Mystic Shrines of Pretty Fancy”: Amy Leslie’s Reviews of Oz (Part 3)
In the final installment of a three-part feature, Michael Patrick Hearn presents the Oz-related columns of Chicago drama critic Amy Leslie in relation to the 1913 production, The Tik-Tok Man of Oz. Includes rare photographs. Her earlier thoughts on The Wizard of Oz and The Woggle-Bug are in the Autumn 1994 and Winter 1994 issues.
The Ryl
An original, fanciful L. Frank Baum short story, reprinted from Bobbs-Merrill’s 1908 edition of American Fairy Tales. Accompanied by new illustrations from Eric Shanower.
If Ever a Wiz There Was
Ruth Berman pens a biographical sketch of Frank Morgan, the popular comic actor who portrayed the Wizard (and Professor Marvel) in MGM’s The Wizard of Oz.
The Yellow Knight Goes to the Theater
Andrea Kelman Yussman reports on the licensed adaptation of The Yellow Knight of Oz by Richard Fullmer, who received permission from Ruth Plumly Thompson and Reilly & Lee. It was originally written and performed in 1962, but it was revived and updated by Chris Sterling for performing at 1990–91 Oz Club conventions.
Reviews
The Wiz at the Fox Theater (theater; reviewer David Maxine)
Dot and Tot of Merryland illustrated by Donald Abbott, Emerald City Press edition (fiction; reviewer Stephen J. Teller)