The English Version stars Aileen Quinn as Dorothy and Lorne Greene as the Wizard. audience (in English first) and was not released in Japan until 1986. Produced by Toho with animation by Topcraft, it was made for a U.S. The Wizard of Oz ( Oz no Mahōtsukai, 1982) - A feature film-length adaptation of the first novel.

Oz-related works with their own pages on this wiki include: The Royal Publisher of Oz is nowadays the main publisher of these canon-friendly Oz stories (other than those who self-publish), and maintains an extended canon for modern stories that are close enough in tone to the original books. Pseudo-Canonical Fic that tries to stick to the original canon of the Famous Forty Oz books are more niche, and many of these stories have been published by The Royal Publisher of Oz, the Hungry Tiger Press, Books of Wonder, the official fan magazine Oziana, and others over the years.

Series that take on their own unique interpretations of Oz, such as The Wicked Years and Dorothy Must Die, have found great success with major publishers. Given the public domain status of most of the original books by now, fan fiction of the series can be legally published and profited from. Out of the “Famous Forty”, 26 of the books are public domain, allowing considerable scope for unlicensed spin-offs, sequels and re-imaginings thus making the trope Dystopian Oz possible, which many of the below works employ. The number of non-literary adaptations decrease rapidly the further into the sequels you look, with almost none after the third novel, although elements from later novels do frequently appear in adaptations of the earlier novels. It has since been adapted numerous times, in nearly every conceivable medium, including a 1939 film musical that for many people is more familiar than the original novel most film adaptations these days will at least allude to the 1939 film in some way, although copyright makes this tricky. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was adapted for the stage almost immediately, and was a massive success, inspiring Baum to begin writing the sequel novels. The book has had 39 official sequels (among many unauthorised ones and spinoffs) with the originals generally being called 'The Famous Forty', 14 of them being written by Baum.

Frank Baum in his novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The Land of Oz is a fantasy setting created by L. (Bottom L to R): Return to Oz (1985), Tin Man (2007), The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005) (Middle L to R): Wicked (2003), The Wizard of Oz (1939) Once Upon a Time (2011) (Top L to R): The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986), The Witches of Oz (2011), Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz (2011)

Oz by Eric Shanower