You know how in The Wizard of Oz Dorothy was looking for the way to get back to Kansas and it was right on her feet the whole time? This time Ozma was right under everyone's nose the whole time. Tip teams up with Scarecrow, the Tin Man (who is now the king of the land of the Winkies, aka the Wicked Witch's guard from Wizard of Oz), the mystically animated Jack Pumpkinhead and a couple of other weirdo creatures to find Ozma and return her to the throne. He ends up on the run from her and heads to the Emerald City, now ruled by the Scarecrow, just as it is being overthrown by General jinjur, who leads an all-female army. The protagonist of The Marvelous Land of Oz is a boy named Tip, who lives with Mombi. In the sequel Baum reveals that Pastoria had been usurped by the Wizard upon his arrival in Oz, and that the Wizard of Oz had, in league with the evil witch Mombi, kidnapped Pastoria's daughter and the rightful heir to the throne, Ozma.
Most notably, the idea of a King Pastoria II, the rightful monarch of Oz, showed up in The Marvelous Land of Oz. The stage show had been such a huge hit that some elements from it made it into Baum's subsequent Oz books**. The sequel was a bald set-up for another stage show (an invading army is described as looking exactly like chorus girls), and it brought back Scarecrow and The Tin Man because the actors who played them on stage had become enormous stars*. While we associate the Land of Oz with Dorothy Gale, the girl from Kansas, the central figure of Baum's world is actually Princess Ozma, who doesn't even show up until the second book, The Marvelous Land of Oz.īaum had not intended to write a sequel, but after other books failed and after The Wizard of Oz was a huge success as a stage play, he decided to return to his fairy land. MGM gladly changed up many elements of Baum's first book (it doesn't even use the full title, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz), and never bothered adapting any of his subsequent 14 canonical Oz books. Frank Baum's original Oz novels are weird, especially if your familiarity with the Land of Oz comes from the classic 1939 movie musical.
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