Vol. 24, no. 3 (Winter 1980)
| Editor-in-Chief | Barbara S. Koelle |
| Production Editor | Pat Tobias |
| Art Editor | Bill Eubank |
| Review Editor | David L. Greene |
| Research Editor | James E. Haff |
| Bibliography Editor | Peter E. Hanff |
| Contributing Editors | Jerry V. Tobias, John Fricke, Douglas G. Greene |
| Consulting Editors | Martin Gardner, Dick Martin, Michael Patrick Hearn |
Layout and cover design by Bill Eubank
Front cover art by Ken Anderson, uncredited (The Rainbow Road to Oz)
Back cover photograph by an uncredited photographer (Ozcot, Wizard of Oz Lodge)
Winter 1980 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.
Walt Disney and the Rainbow Road to Oz
Walt Disney archivist David R. Smith tells the story of the failed Oz project designed for the Mouseketeers and piloted in The Disneyland Fourth Anniversary Show. Includes several character designs and photographs from the Walt Disney Archives.
Great Men and Women: L. Frank Baum
Maud Gage Baum, L. Frank Baum’s widow, was commissioned to write this biographical sketch by A Child’s Garden of Verses for Cheerful and Happy Homes in July 1926, anticipating their two-part serialization of “The Yellow Ryl.”
Invisible Inzi of Oz (Part 1)
The first seven “chapters” of a unique original Oz story written by two children, Virginia and Robert Wauchope, which they supposedly received from L. Frank Baum by Ouija board. The story was originally published in A Child’s Garden for Cheerful and Happy Homes from October 1926 to September 1927. Chapters eight to twelve would be reprinted in The Baum Bugle in the Summer 1981 issue.
How Uncle Eli Laughed Too Soon
A reproduction of one installment of L. Frank Baum and Walt McDougall’s Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz newspaper comic page in 1904.
In Memoriam
Ray Powell (Munchkin Convention director and auctioneer) and James Teller (Club member).