Vol. 38, no. 3 (Winter 1994)
| Editor-in-Chief | Lynne Smith |
| Production Editors | Dan Smith (uncredited) |
| Bibliography Editor | Peter E. Hanff |
| Review Editor | Stephen J. Teller |
| Contributing Editors | John Fricke, Martin Gardner, Douglas G. Greene, Eleanor Kennedy, Dorothy Curtiss Maryott, Patrick Maund, Evan McCord, David Moyer, Jim Vander Noot |
Front cover art by Ike Morgan (The Woggle-Bug Book)
Back cover art by Al Stedman (sheet music cover, “Wogglebug Parade”)
Winter 1994 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.
“Queer Visitors” Revisited
Michael Patrick Hearn recounts the little-known history of Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz (1904–05), the short-lived comics page by L. Frank Baum and Walt McDougall designed to promote the second Oz book with new adventures for the characters.
Memories of My Grandmother Baum
Ozma Baum Mantele recalls vivid anecdotes of her grandmother, Maud Gage Baum—Frank’s widow—whom she encountered frequently as a child and teenager.
“Baum’s Mystic Shrines of Pretty Fancy”: Amy Leslie’s Reviews of Oz (Part 2)
In the second of a three-part feature, Michael Patrick Hearn presents the Oz-related columns of Chicago drama critic Amy Leslie. In 1905 she witnessed Baum’s stage musical failure, The Woggle-Bug, as well as the latest incarnation of the long-running Wizard of Oz. Her thoughts on the 1902–03 incarnation of the Wizard of Oz musical extravaganza were published in the Autumn 1994 issue, and her columns on The Tik-Tok Man of Oz would be published in Spring 1995.
The Scarecrow Becomes a Man of Means in Spite of the Girls at a Church Fair
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. Unfortunately, it is printed so lightly that portions of the text are impossible to read.
The Skies of Enchantment
Barbara S. Koelle catalogs the flying islands and cloud countries that take up the skies over Oz in the canonical “Famous Forty” books.
In Memoriam
Frederick E. Otto (poet, Baum Bugle indexer) and Alla T. Ford (charter Oz Club member and co-author of The Musical Fantasies of L. Frank Baum)
Reviews
We’re Off to See the Munchkins (VHS documentary; reviewer Todd Machin)
Little Wizard Stories of Oz Books of Wonder edition (fiction; reviewer Sean P. Duffley)
Kaliko in Oz by K. Kline (fiction; reviewer Stephen J. Teller)
Red Reera the Yookoohoo and the Enchanted Easter Eggs of Oz by Richard G. Quinn (fiction; reviewer Stephen J. Teller)
Egor’s Funhouse Goes to Oz by Chris Dulabone (fiction; reviewer Stephen J. Teller)