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Dude, Where’s My Scalawagon?

The Scalawagons of Oz, by John R. Neill – This book is eighty years old now, and it’s possibly the worst in the main series. It’s not one of those books that’s particularly embarrassing in retrospect, like Royal Book from twenty years … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, John R. Neill, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology | Tagged aunt em, bell-snickle, betsy bobbin, flabber-gas, jack pumpkinhead, jenny jump, lucky bucky in oz, mifkits, nota-bells, number nine, ozma, ozoplanes, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, patchwork girl, revolt of the scalawagons, sawhorse, scalawagons, scarecrow, the royal book of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the wonder city of oz, tik-tok, tin woodman, trot griffiths, uncle henry, wizard of oz |

Lovable and Not-So-Lovable Rogues

I’ve now read a few of the Best of the Baum Bugle volumes I just recently purchased, and there are some interesting articles in there, including some on the Nome King and L. Frank Baum’s other villains. I’ve already covered … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Focus on the Foes, Humor, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged abrog, baum's other villains, bell-snickle, boolooroo of the blues, bortag, bustabo, c. warren hollister, chalk, conjo, crunch, dorothy and the wizard in oz, faleero, giants, glegg, gludwig the glubrious, grampa in oz, grand gallipoot, growleywogs, guph, gwig, handy mandy in oz, judy pike, kabumpo in oz, kiki aru, king skamperoo, king strutoovious vii, king terribus of spor, loxo the lucky, lucky bucky in oz, merry go round in oz, mimics, mombi, mooj, mustafa of mudge, nome king, ozma and the little wizard, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, pirates in oz, prince marvel, queen ann soforth, quiberon, red rogue, roundelay, singra, sir greves, sky island, slyddwyn, speedy in oz, sultan of samandra, terp the terrible, the baum bugle, the best of the baum bugle, the cowardly lion of oz, the decline and fall of the nome king, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted apples of oz, the enchanted island of yew, the giant horse of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the little wizard stories of oz, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the purple prince of oz, the rundelstone of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the sea fairies, the shaggy man of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tik-tok of oz, ugu the shoemaker, water of oblivion, wizard of oz, wizard of wutz, zog |

Etymology in Oz

I bought a few old Baum Bugle issues at OzCon in Portland, and they have some interesting content. There was apparently a sometime recurring feature called “Footnotes to Oz” that explained names in the Oz series, written by Jerry Tobias. … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Characters, Etymology, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bell-snickle, beowulf, betsy bobbin, boolooroo, christopher gise, corabia, dorothy and the wizard in oz, footnotes to oz, fred meyer, gabooches, gilbert and sullivan, gillikins, isle of phreex, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jellia jamb, jerry tobias, karwan bashi, mandrakes, mangaboos, martin gardner, menankypoo, michael patrick hearn, mogodore, munchkins, nikobo, nikobob, oogaboo, orcs, orks, para bruin, pastoria, pingaree, quiberon, rak, rocs, salye soforth, samandra, tarara, tattypoo, the baum bugle, the mikado, the tin woodman of oz, tik-tok of oz, tippetarius, wizard of oz, woot the wanderer |

Oz Con Artists

I’ve written before about how L. Frank Baum’s position on trickery is somewhat mixed. As someone who had worked as a salesman, he knew the value of a certain amount of balderdash in order to sell things to people. And … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged bell-snickle, deception, frogman, humbug, kiki aru, kwytoffle, mother goose in prose, nome king, ozma of oz, phanfasms, professor wogglebug, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, the enchanted island of yew, the magic of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the marvelous land of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, wheelers, whimsies, wizard of oz |

Bah! There’s Always a War!

In addition to Glinda’s army, there are a lot of armed forces that show up in minor Ozian countries. Many are simply palace guards, but there are some more specific military units as well. Utensia has the Spoon Brigade, made … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Gina Wickwar, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged another adventure with ann, armies, belfaygor, bell-snickle, captain fyter, corabia, corumbia, dorothy gale, emerald city, eric gjovaag, flatheads, general blotz, general quakes, glinda, glinda of oz, gloria, grampa in oz, halidom, invasion, jack pumpkinhead, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jinjur, jinxland, karyl carlson, kiltoon, merry go round in oz, military, mogodore, mombi, nome king, oogaboo, ozma, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, ozwoz, princess melody, private jo files, pumperdink, queen ann in oz, queen ann soforth, red top mountain, regalia, rimmers, samandra, skeezers, spoon brigade, the emerald city of oz, the gardener's boy of oz, the lost king of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the purple prince of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wishing horse of oz, tik-tok, tik-tok of oz, tin woodman, tippetarius in oz, toto of oz, troth, utensia, war, zim greenleaf |