Vol. 42, no. 1 (Spring 1998)
| Editor-in-Chief | William Stillman |
| Production Editor | Adele Robey |
| Bibliography Editors | Peter E. Hanff, Patrick Maund |
| Review Editor | Sean P. Duffley |
| Contributing Editors | Ron Baxley, Angelica Carpenter, Paul Cuneo, David Moyer, Jay Scarfone |
Front cover art by William Stillman, adapting John Buscema (unused cover for Marvel’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
Interior front cover art by Miki Ferro Pelizzari (Oz Paese Incantato)
Interior back cover art by an unknown artist (The Wonderful Stories of Oz)
Back cover art by an unknown artist (The Wonderful Stories of Oz)
Spring 1998 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.
The Changing World of Youth: Baum’s Oz versus Caliber’s OZ Comics
Ron Baxley, Jr. provides an extensive overview of Caliber Comics’ OZ, attempting to set the series in context with trends in adaptation, with a couple of quotes from series writer Stuart Kerr.
Langley’s Screenplay for Wizard of Oz Sequel Discovered
Michael Gessel uncovers and fully summarizes a rare screenplay written by Noel Langley, Jr., one of the co-scribes of MGM’s The Wizard of Oz, adapting L. Frank Baum’s second Oz novel, The Marvelous Land of Oz. Although undated, the screenplay is believed to have been written in the late 1950s or early 1960s, after which it was acquired by the Library of Congress.
All Roads Lead to Oz
Comic book writer Roy Thomas describes how the Marvel/DC Wizard of Oz comic came to be in 1975. The article includes artist John Buscema‘s character sketches and pencil roughs for a non-MGM adaptation (Marvel’s original plan), and it is followed by artist John Romita‘s pencil rough and near-final sketch for the eventual, MGM-based front cover.
Bibliographia Baumiana: The Enchanted Island of Yew
Patrick M. Maund and Peter E. Hanff pen a new bibliographic examination of this title, superseding that found in the Christmas 1968 issue.
Oz Oddity
Details of and reproduced pages from the press kit for “The Wonderful Stories of Oz,” which serialized six Baum Oz books in newspapers across the country from 1919–32.
Reviews
Oz and Beyond: The Fantasy World of L. Frank Baum by Michael O. Riley (non-fiction; reviewer Angelica Carpenter)
The Enchanted Island of Yew illustrated by George O’Connor, Books of Wonder edition (fiction; reviewer Sean P. Duffley)
The Fairy Circle of Oz by Chris Dulabone (fiction; reviewer Stephen J. Teller)
The Green Goblins of Oz by Chris Dulabone (fiction; reviewer Stephen J. Teller)
The Royal Book of Oz Books of Wonder edition (fiction; reviewer unknown)
Vampires and Oz by Nikki Kay Richardson (fiction; reviewer Joe Bongiorno)
Dorothy’s Mystical Adventures in Oz by Robert J. Evans (fiction; reviewer M.A. Berg)
The Green Star of Oz by Roger S. Baum (fiction; reviewer Joe Bongiorno)