Vol. 51, no. 1 (Spring 2007)
| Editor-in-Chief | Sean P. Duffley |
| Production Editor | Marcus Mébès |
| Bibliography Editor | Peter E. Hanff |
| Review Editor | Joe Bongiorno |
| Contributing Editors | Angelica Carpenter, Atticus Gannaway |
Front cover art by Marcus Mébès, adapting E. A. Nelson (Aunt Jane’s Nieces)
Back cover art by Eric Shanower (The Boy Fortune Hunters in Yucatan)
Spring 2007 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 Man Behind the Curtain: Can the Reader Spot a Ringer in the Aunt Jane’s Nieces Books?
Angelica Carpenter compares the Aunt Jane’s Nieces series to the contemporaneous Patty series by Carolyn Wells, wondering: can readers tell the Edith Van Dyne books were written by a man? Spoilers abound in her examination.
Baum Under Scrutiny: Early Reviews of Baum’s Pseudonymous Fiction for Adolescents
Sean P. Duffley looks at reviews of Aunt Jane’s Nieces, Annabel, and Sam Steele’s Adventures on Land and Sea contemporary with their original publication. Includes vintage advertising.
Recycled Steele: L. Frank Baum’s Boys’ Series Books
H. Alan Pickrell analyzes the ways in which the Sam Steele / Boy Fortune Hunters books may have been consciously influenced by the works of H. Rider Haggard.
Bibliographia Pseudonymiana: Sam Steele’s Adventures on Land and Sea and The Boy Fortune Hunters in Alaska
Bill Thompson collates bibliographical data about the early printings of Baum’s works published under a pseudonym. This installment focuses on “Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald’s” Sam Steele’s Adventures on Land and Sea, also known as The Boy Fortune Hunters in Alaska by “Floyd Akers,” revising and expanding the analysis first given in the Autumn 1970 issue.
Odd One Out: Annabel, or Suzanne Metcalf’s Unexpected Homage to Horatio Alger
Sean P. Duffley considers the aspirations of Reilly & Britton in their creation of “Suzanne Metcalf” and “her” work Annabel, how it consciously follows the established formula of Horatio Alger’s highly successful novels for young people, and how Baum’s own predilections work against that formula.
The Orchestra
An original poem by L. Frank Baum, reprinted from Songs of Spring, a 1917 collection published by the Uplifters.
Reviews
Return to Oz (animated film on DVD; reviewer Atticus Gannaway)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Injoy Games (computer game; reviewer Marc Saltzman)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz adapted by David Chauvel, art by Enrique Fernandez (graphic novel; reviewer Eric Shanower)
The Collected Short Stories of L. Frank Baum edited by Katharine M. Rogers (fiction; reviewer Blair Frodelius)
Aunt Jane’s Nieces in the Red Cross Wildside Press edition (fiction; reviewer Jeffrey Rester)
The Bashful Baker of Oz by Marcus Mébès (fiction; reviewer Suzanna E. Henshon)
Lost in Oz by Joshua Patrick Dudley (fiction; reviewer Chris Dulabone)
Scratch and Sketch Wizard of Oz: An Art Activity Story Book for Artists on Both Sides of the Rainbow adapted by Mara Conlan, illustrated by Martha Day Zschock (activity book; reviewer Suzanna E. Henshon)
Toto of Oz and the Surprise Party by Roger S. Baum (fiction; reviewer unknown)