The Baum Bugle: Spring 2024

Vol. 68, no. 1 (Spring 2024)

Front cover art by Dale Ulrey (elements from multiple works)

Interior front cover art by Dale Ulrey (original watercolor)

Interior back cover art by unknown artist (E. E. Fairchild’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz game)

Back cover art by Dale Ulrey (The Wizard of Oz)

Spring 2024 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.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow I Wake Up Screaming!

Sarah K. Crotzer discovers the curious mystery of I Wake Up Screaming, a 20th Century Fox crime film that uses “Over the Rainbow” as underscore – over and over again! 

Discovering Dale Ulrey

In this special double-length feature, Jane Albright reveals the life and career of Dale Ulrey, the commercial artist who was chosen by Reilly & Lee to re-illustrate the Oz books in the mid-1950s. Includes interviews with those who knew her and packed with examples of her paintings, comics strips, and other art. 

Collector’s Corner: E. E. Fairchild’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Sarah K. Crotzer examines the first “public domain” Oz board game, including a history of its publisher, E. E. Fairchild, and full “bibliography”-style details of the game’s two printings.

Adventures in Oz: Bobby Burgess – Dancing Down a Rainbow Road

Jane Albright interviews former Mouseketeer Bobby Burgess, who performed as the Scarecrow in Walt Disney’s The Rainbow Road to Oz.

Reviews

The Wiz (tour version) (theater; reviewer Anthony Whitaker)

The Witch of Maracoor by Gregory Maguire (fiction; reviewer Alan Wise)

Oz in Canada (2nd ed.) by C. J. Hinke (non-fiction; reviewer Cynthia Ragni)

Tin Man by Justin Madson (graphic novel; reviewer J. L. Bell)

Lands of Oz by Escape Velocity Games (game; reviewer Sarah K. Crotzer)