Vol. 28, no. 3 (Winter 1984)
| Editor-in-Chief | John Fricke |
| Production Editor | Dan Smith, Lynne Smith |
| Bibliography Editor | Peter E. Hanff |
| Review Editor | Douglas G. Greene |
| Contributing Editors | Martin Gardner, Michael Gessel, Michael Patrick Hearn, Dick Martin, Dorothy Curtiss Maryott, Patrick Maund, Ethan Mordden, Douglas Rossman |
Front cover art by an unknown artist (poster for 1902’s The Wizard of Oz)
Back cover art by K. Grey (Poppy Girl sketch for 1902’s The Wizard of Oz)
Winter 1984 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 Pictures’ Return to Oz
John Fricke provides details, along with photographs, of Disney’s new summer blockbuster release.
OZ: The Del Rey Connection
An interview with Judy-Lynn del Rey, promoting the new Del Rey paperbacks of the Oz books and discussing her own love of them that made the reprints possible.
The Wicked Witch Interviews the Scarecrow
Margaret Hamilton, famed as MGM’s Wicked Witch of the West, briefly recalls meeting Fred Stone at the end of his life. Accompanied by an illustration by Rob Roy MacVeigh.
The Last Vaudeville: Baum’s Wizard on Broadway
Ethan Mordden looks at the musical extravaganza of The Wizard of Oz in cultural context and attempts to answer why it is neglected by revivalists and musical theater historians.
The Milk-Maid
An original poem by L. Frank Baum, reprinted from L. Frank Baum’s Juvenile Speaker (1910).
Reviews
In Other Lands Than Ours facsimile edition (non-fiction; reviewer Michael O. Riley)
An Oz Picture Gallery by Dick Martin (art book; reviewer Irene Fisher)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Virginia Glasgow Koste (script; reviewer Ben P. Indick)
The Wizard of Oz illustrated by David McKee (fiction; reviewer Jean Brockway)