Vol. 69, no. 1 (Spring 2025)
| Editor-in-Chief | Sarah K. Crotzer |
| Production Editor | Sarah K. Crotzer (uncredited) |
| Bibliography Editor | Peter E. Hanff |
| Reviews Editor | Atticus Gannaway |
| Editorial Assistant | Christina Maffa |
Front cover photo by Universal Pictures (Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande)
Interior cover art by Anton Loeb (endpapers for The Wizard of Oz)
Back cover photograph by David Diket (Glinda and Wicked Witch Robert Tonner dolls)
Spring 2025 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.
What is This Feeling?
Editor-in-Chief Sarah K. Crotzer reviews the new blockbuster Wicked: Part One and examines what it offers us as long-time Oz fans.
What the Papers Said
Selected comments on the release of Wicked, both positive and negative, from major media outlets in the US and UK.
Wicked Wares: Toys, Plushes, and Cinema Exclusives
Jane Albright compiles a collector’s guide to Wicked merchandise designed to appeal to kids and families: toys, plushes, and cinema exclusives such as pins and popcorn buckets.
My Beautiful Wickedness
David Diket takes readers on a collector’s journey, tracing the development of the Wicked Witch, and later Elphaba, in their ever-increasing depiction as fashion dolls. Accompanied with an exhaustive checklist of Witch/Elphaba fashion dolls.
The Dollmaker of Oz
Karyl Carlson describes her passion of creating original Oz dolls.
The Editorial Cartoons of Oz, Pt. 1
Carl Rexroad returns after 25 years (following articles in the Spring 1997 and Autumn 2000 issues) to provide a brand new examination of how Oz themes have proliferated in editorial cartoons since 2000. A second part of his survey appears in the Autumn 2025 issue.
75 Years of Anton Loeb’s The Wizard of Oz
William Stillman looks back at this significant storybook adaptation of the original Baum tale.
The Lifelong Scholar: Stephen J. Teller’s Journey from Kansas to Oz
Michael Gessel pays tribute to Stephen Teller, a decades-long stalwart of the Oz Club and The Baum Bugle.
Reviews
The Wiz on Broadway (theater; reviewer Robert Lamont)
Elphie: A Wicked Childhood by Gregory Maguire (fiction; reviewer Alan Wise)
Wicked: Part One (Blu-Ray/DVD set; reviewer Sarah K. Crotzer)
Adventures in Oz: Campaign Setting / Beasts & Beings (games; reviewer Sarah K. Crotzer)
Wicked: The Game (games; reviewer Sarah K. Crotzer)