The Baum Bugle

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Major writers and writing in The Baum Bugle

Across its extensive history, The Baum Bugle has included articles written by such notable figures as Ruth Berman, André De Shields, Martin Gardner, Douglas G. Greene, William Lindsay Gresham, Margaret Hamilton (actress), Michael Patrick Hearn, Phyllis Ann Karr, Gary Kurtz, March Laumer, Daniel P. Mannix, Dick Martin (artist), and Sally Roesch Wagner. Martin also designed all the cover art from 1959 to 1976.

In early decades The Baum Bugle was known for reprinting rare fiction by L. Frank Baum, including non-Oz stories from magazines and newspapers and installments of the 1904–05 Oz comic strip Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz . During her lifetime, Ruth Plumly Thompson also contributed original poetry, and both Rachel Cosgrove Payes and Eloise Jarvis McGraw penned original articles.

Among the range of articles published in The Baum Bugle:

Editors of The Baum Bugle

The Baum Bugle has been edited by a number of individual volunteers, some of whom were major figures within the Oz Club. These were not originally credited in the pages of the Bugle, although Justin G. Schiller is acknowledged as the original editor. Starting in 1968, an editorial team was credited. In 1975, Jerry Tobias become the first credited editor-in-chief, a role that has been filled to date as follows:

Four guest editors-in-chief have also led issues outside the usual run: Fred M. Meyer (Spring 1995); Marcus Mébès (Autumn 2008); Sean P. Duffley (Winter 2012); and Cynthia Twohy Ragni (Spring 2015).

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