Vol. 27, no. 3 (Winter 1983)
| Editor-in-Chief | Barbara S. Koelle |
| Production Editor | Dan Smith, Lynne Smith |
| Review Editor | Douglas G. Greene |
| Club News Editor | David Maxine |
| Research Editor | Douglas A. Rossman |
| Contributing Editors | John Fricke, David L. Greene, Jerry V. Tobias |
| Consulting Editors | Martin Gardner, Dick Martin, Michael Patrick Hearn |
Front cover art by Ted Eshbaugh Studios (1933’s The Wizard of Oz)
Back cover photograph by unknown photographer (Perre Couderc and Herbert Glennon in The Patchwork Girl of Oz)
Winter 1983 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 Science Fiction Film
Alan C. Elms looks closely at the influence of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz on such blockbuster films as Star Wars (1977), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), The Black Hole (1979), Tron (1982), and E.T. (1982), as well as more direct adaptation in The Wizard of Mars (1964), Zardoz (1973) and Time Bandits (1981).
Oz on Film
Marc Lewis attempts a comprehensive checklist of Oz-related films, including a few unfinished or projected projects that may never have been completed. The checklist would later be refined and expanded in the Winter 1993 issue, and an entirely new checklist would be presented in the Spring 2004 issue.
The Oz Report
Michael Korolenko and Leslie Johnson present a treatment for a documentary on Oz that would have blurred the lines between Oz in our world and the “real” Oz, with Ozma transporting an elderly Dorothy and the camera crew to Oz. Illustrated by Bill Eubank.
In Memoriam
Russell P. MacFall (founding member; president of the Oz Club, 1967–1975; and co-author, To Please a Child).
Reviews
The Wizard of Oz by Seiyu (theater; reviewer Seraphim Sigrist)
The Wizard of Oz illustrated by Pablo Marcos Studios (fiction; reviewer Jean Brockway)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz illustrated by Eleanor Mill (fiction; reviewer Jean Brockway)
The Wizard of Oz illustrated by Robert Leydenfrost (fiction; reviewer Jean Brockway)
The Wizard of Oz by Scholastic Book Services (fiction; reviewer Jean Brockway)
Journeys Through Oz: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Marvelous Land of Oz foreword by Solomon J. Schepps (fiction; reviewer Jean Brockway)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz edited by Sheila Schwartz (fiction; reviewer Jean Brockway)
The Wizard of Oz illustrated by Kevin Maddison (fiction; reviewer Jean Brockway)
The Marvellous Land of Oz illustrated by Kevin Maddison (fiction; reviewer Jean Brockway)
The Wizard of Oz: Off to See the Wizard, Dorothy and the Wicked Witch, Dorothy and the Wizard, and Over the Rainbow illustrated by Bill Morrison (fiction; reviewer Jean Brockway)
Wizard of Oz illustrated by Brian Price Thomas (fiction; reviewer Jean Brockway)
The Wizard of Oz Sharon Bambi Classics edition (fiction; reviewer Jean Brockway)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Lemon Tree Press edition (fiction; reviewer Jean Brockway)
The Wizard of Oz: A Windmill Pop-Up Book illustrated by Karen Avery (fiction; reviewer Jean Brockway)
Oz in Canada: A Bibliography by C.J. Hinke (non-fiction; reviewer Douglas G. Greene)
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus Merrimack Publishing Corporation edition (fiction; reviewer Mary Schaller)
Button Bright of Oz by Harry E. Mongold (fiction; reviewer Mary Schaller)
The Wiz theatrical script (theater; reviewer John Fricke)