Fairy Tale Spotlight: The Oz Gazette #18 [Review]

"The Oz Gazette #17" is the Winter 2023 edition of the possibly canon mini newspaper published by the International Wizard of Oz Club. Sadly, the one I got was in a bad crumpled-up state because my dad had to hold onto it for a while, but it was all there and readable.

As it turns out, the Nome King was finally dethroned by none other than the Cowardly Lion. Apparently the Nome King had gotten himself drunk on "sparkling mercury," and the Lion snuck in there and stole the king's pants and Magic Belt. Dorothy was then able to use the Magic Belt to wish Ozma back to Oz and then save the day.

The whole edition is specifically about the Cowardly Lion of Oz which is just what I would feel would happen if the Lion had been the hero of the day. All the local newspapers would be about him actually. It even does a lot of promoting for the actual book by Ruth Plumly Thompson called "The Cowardly Lion of Oz."

At the very end of the newspaper, The Woggle-Bug writes his own article about the Cowardly Lion. It was a pretty good read and is even annotated. The best part of it though was the author's by-line which was listed as: Professor H.M. Wobble-Bug, T.E., D. Phil, D. Litt, Th. D., MSc, MA, BSc., EdD, ODd, D. Oz, TWWoO, MLoO, EMerald City Chair-insect Emeritus, Etc.

It was so long that it actually wrapped around the side of the newspaper. I loved it!

Once again, this is hard to recommend since only Ozclub members get these things, but I sure as heck enjoyed myself. I also want to mention that there was a lot of encouragement for people to write their own Oz histories in this issue. That put a smile on my face.

This blog was written on April 4, 2024.

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