Little surprise that the film Return to Oz took most of its details from Ozma of Oz. There have also been various comic book versions of the book.Īnd on the slightly more adult side, there was a series that had issues that looked like this. As you can see, it covers everything from visual representations of The Nome King to its influence on books like Matt Phelan’s The Storm in the Barn. Bell’s site on Ozma of Oz revealed this list. I like to have an expert to turn to for every topic on this list and in terms of all things Oz there is no better place to go than Oz and Ends. He relented after a while, and soon he was writing more of the books until pretty much his death. Barriers can always be broken down and authors can usually be persuaded to make more money.

He didn’t kill off Dorothy or anything but he did claim that a magical Barrier of Invisibility had gone up preventing all communication from Oz. This only swelled the clamor from fans, and in 1907 Baum published Ozma of Oz…” After a while Baum tried to pull an Arthur Conan Doyle.

By 1904, Baum gave in and produced The Marvelous Land of Oz: A Sequel to The Wizard of Oz. Smitten by Oz-mania, they sent impassioned pleas to the author for more stories about Oz. came not from author or illustrator, but from Baum’s young readers. In Through the Looking Glass by Selma Lanes we read that after The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, “The idea of a continuing series of Oz books. Scarcely a page fails to quiver with excitement, magic and adventure.”īaum was sort of the victim of his own success. Not only does it bring Dorothy back to Oz on her second visit, but it introduces Dorothy to Ozma, relates Ozma’s first important adventure, and introduces for the first time such famous Oz characters as Tik-Tok, the mechanical man, Billina the hen, the Hungry Tiger, and-The Nome King! Most of the adventures in this book take place outside Oz, in the Land of Ev and the Nome Kingdom. Here it is: “Few of the Oz books are as crowded with exciting Oz happenings as this one.

Now I had to break out the handy dandy Who’s Who In Oz by Jack Snow (circa 1988) for the plot summary.