Vol. 31, no. 3 (Winter 1987)
| 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 |
Front cover art by Rob Roy MacVeigh (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
Back cover art by Alfredo Alcala (Marvel’s unpublished Ozma of Oz)
Winter 1987 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 Oz Christmas Card
Fred M. Meyer provides a guide to the Oz Club’s annual Christmas cards, many of which he personally commissioned.
Michael Gessel recounts the situation through which Marvel and DC Comics came to collaborate on a large-format comic book, The Marvelous Wizard of Oz, in 1975. He also looks at the Marvel-only sequel, The Marvelous Land of Oz, and the proposed but never published third installment, Ozma of Oz. The article includes interview quotes from artist John Buscema and writer Roy Thomas.
Oz Comics That Never Left the Drawing Board
Michael Gessel turns his attention to other comics that never were, including a Ruth Plumly Thompson/John R. Neill comic strip in the 1920s, a pitch by Dan Dowling for a strip in the 1940s, a strip by Dick Martin in the late 1970s, and an Eric Shanower submission to Sgt. Rock in 1984. Illustrated with examples from two of these proposals.
A Checklist of Oz Comic Art
Michael Gessel compiles a comprehensive list of Oz-related comics: newspaper strips, magazine strips, comic books, and graphic novels.
“And the Dreams That You Dare to Dream. . .”
Eric Gjovaag previews The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Rob Roy MacVeigh’s proposed animated film that would be completely faithful to Baum’s book. The project was never completed, in part due to MacVeigh’s death just a few years later. Illustrated with slides of MacVeigh’s pitch reel, one of which is also featured on the front cover of the issue.
Reviews
Yankee in Oz reprint (fiction; reviewer Sean Patrick Duffley)
The Classical Wizard—Magus Mirabilis in Oz translated by C.J. Hinke and George Van Buren (fiction; reviewer Frank Lummis)
Mister Flint in Oz by Ray Powell (fiction; reviewer Mary W. Schaller)
The Wizard of Oz illustrated by Angus McBride (fiction; reviewer Jean Brockway)
The Wizard of Oz narrated by Ray Bolger (spoken word; reviewer Greg Ehrbar)
The Land of Oz narrated by Ray Bolger (spoken word; reviewer Greg Ehrbar)
Little Oz Stories narrated by Ray Bolger (spoken word; reviewer Greg Ehrbar)
Queen Zixi of Ix narrated by Ray Bolger (spoken word; reviewer Greg Ehrbar)