The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (comics)

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Cover for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz #1. Art by Skottie Young.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Limited series
Genre	Fantasy
Publication date	February – September 2009
Number of issues	8
Main character(s)	Dorothy Gale Scarecrow Tin Woodman Cowardly Lion
Creative team
Writer(s)	Eric Shanower L. Frank Baum (novel)
Artist(s)	Skottie Young
Letterer(s)	Jeff Eckleberry
Colorist(s)	Jean-Francois Beaulieu
Editor(s)	Nathan Cosby Lauren Henry Ralph Macchio Joe Quesada Lauren Sankovitch
Collected editions
Hardcover	ISBN 0-7851-2921-9

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an eight-issue comic book limited series adapting the L. Frank Baum novel of the same name. The series was written by Eric Shanower with art by Skottie Young and published by Marvel Comics.

Plot summary

Main article: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz § Plot summary

When Kansas farm girl Dorothy Gale and her pet dog Toto are swept away to the magical Land of Oz in a cyclone, she fatally flattens the Wicked Witch of the East, liberates a talking Scarecrow, meets a Tin Woodman, a Cowardly Lion and is hailed by everyone as a great sorceress! But all Dorothy really wants to know is: how does she get back home again?

Collected editions

The series has been collected into a single volume:

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (192 pages, hardcover, September 2009, ISBN 0-7851-2921-9, softcover, March 2010, ISBN 0-7851-2922-7, June 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4590-7)

Reception

The Marvel Oz series has been met with very positive reviews, praising the art, character design and overall layout.

IGN gave the issues of the series an average rating of 9.2 out of 10.^[1]

It won the 2010 Eisners for Best Limited Series or Story Arc and Best Publication for Kids.^[2]

Sequels

The series has been followed by adaptations of The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz and The Road to Oz, and The Emerald City of Oz by the same creative team. The series did not continue beyond the sixth Oz book.

Notes

References

'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' at the Grand Comics Database
'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' at the Comic Book DB

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Canonical books

L. Frank Baum	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) Ozma of Oz (1907) Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908) The Road to Oz (1909) The Emerald City of Oz (1910) The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913) Tik-Tok of Oz (1914) The Scarecrow of Oz (1915) Rinkitink in Oz (1916) The Lost Princess of Oz (1917) The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918) The Magic of Oz (1919) Glinda of Oz (1920)

Ruth Plumly Thompson	The Royal Book of Oz (1921) Kabumpo in Oz (1922) The Cowardly Lion of Oz (1923) Grampa in Oz (1924) The Lost King of Oz (1925) The Hungry Tiger of Oz (1926) The Gnome King of Oz (1927) The Giant Horse of Oz (1928) Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz (1929) The Yellow Knight of Oz (1930) Pirates in Oz (1931) The Purple Prince of Oz (1932) Ojo in Oz (1933) Speedy in Oz (1934) The Wishing Horse of Oz (1935) Captain Salt in Oz (1936) Handy Mandy in Oz (1937) The Silver Princess in Oz (1938) Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz (1939)

Others	The Wonder City of Oz (1940) The Scalawagons of Oz (1941) Lucky Bucky in Oz (1942) The Magical Mimics in Oz (1946) The Shaggy Man of Oz (1949) The Hidden Valley of Oz (1951) Merry Go Round in Oz (1963) Yankee in Oz (1972) The Enchanted Island of Oz (1976) The Forbidden Fountain of Oz (1980) The Ozmapolitan of Oz (1986) The Wicked Witch of Oz (1993) The Giant Garden of Oz (1993) The Runaway in Oz (1995) The Rundelstone of Oz (2000) The Emerald Wand of Oz (2005) Trouble Under Oz (2006)

Alternate	Dorothy of Oz (1989)

Locations
and elements

Land of Oz
Deadly Desert
Nonestica
- Forest of Burzee
- Land of Ev
- Merryland
- Mo
- Ix
- Nome Kingdom
- Noland
Ruby slippers
Silver Shoes
Apocrypha
The Oz Film Manufacturing Company

Characters

Other writers

Authors	John R. Neill Jack Snow Rachel Cosgrove Payes Eloise Jarvis McGraw Dick Martin Alexander Volkov Gregory Maguire Sherwood Smith Roger S. Baum

Illustrators	William Wallace Denslow Frank Kramer Dirk Gringhuis Dick Martin Eric Shanower William Stout

Adaptations and other derivative works

Films	The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays (1908) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz (1910) The Land of Oz (1910) John Dough and the Cherub (1910) The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914) His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914) The Wizard of Oz (1925) The Wizard of Oz (1933) The Wizard of Oz (1939) Return to Oz (1964) The Wonderful Land of Oz (1969) Ayşecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde (1971) Journey Back to Oz (1974) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1975) The Wiz (1978) The Wizard of Oz (1982) Return to Oz (1985) Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz (1987) The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story (1990) Lion of Oz (2000) The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005) Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz (2011) Dorothy and the Witches of Oz (2011) After the Wizard (2011) Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2014) Ozland (2014) Guardians of Oz (2015) Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz (2016)

Stage	The Wizard of Oz (1902) The Woggle-Bug (1905) The Tik-Tok Man of Oz (1913) The Wizard of Oz (1942) The Wiz (1974) The Marvelous Land of Oz (1981) The Wizard of Oz (1987) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2000) The Wizard of Oz (2011) The Woodsman (2012)

Television	Tales of the Wizard of Oz (1961) Off to See the Wizard (1967) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986) The Wizard of Oz (1990) The Oz Kids (1996) Lost in Oz (2002) Once Upon a Time (since 2011) The Wiz Live! (2015) Emerald City (beginning TBA)

Comics	Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz (1904–05) Adventures in Oz (1986–92) The Enchanted Apples of Oz (1986) Oz Squad (1991) Lost Girls (1991–92) Oz (1994) Dorothy of Oz (2006) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2009)

Video games	The Wizard of Oz (1993) The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road (2008) Emerald City Confidential (2009)

Parodies	The Wozard of Iz Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's Wizard of Odd

Reimagining	The Wizard of Mars (1965) Hunter (1973) Zardoz (1974) Oz (1976) The Number of the Beast (1980) A Barnstormer in Oz (1982) The Wizard of A.I.D.S. (1987) The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz (1990) Twister (1994) The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997) Tin Man (2007) Dorothy Must Die (2014) The Wicked Will Rise (2015)

The Wicked Years	Wicked Son of a Witch A Lion Among Men Out of Oz Wicked (musical) Characters

Others	Rainbow Road to Oz MÄR The Wizard of Oz (pinball) The Wizard of Oz (arcade game)

Related	The International Wizard of Oz Club The Baum Bugle

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