Jack Pumpkinhead, Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, and Tip meet the Woggle-Bug Tip joins Jack and the Scarecrow in the palace and they escape on the Sawhorse's back. Jinjur and her crew invade the Emerald City, terrorize the citizens, and loot the city, causing great havoc and chaos. Meanwhile, Jack and the Sawhorse arrive at the Emerald City and make the acquaintance of His Majesty the Scarecrow. Walking alone, he meets General Jinjur's all-girl Army of Revolt which is planning to overthrow the Scarecrow (who has ruled the Emerald City since the end of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz after the Wizard of Oz left). The Sawhorse runs so quickly that Tip is left behind. He uses it to animate the wooden Sawhorse for Jack to ride. To avoid being turned into a marble statue, Tip runs away with Jack that very same night and steals the Powder of Life. Mombi tells Tip that she intends to transform him into a marble statue to punish him for his mischievous ways. To Tip's dismay, Mombi is not fooled by this trick, and she takes this opportunity to demonstrate the new magical "Powder of Life" that she had just obtained from another sorcerer. As Mombi is returning home one day, Tip plans to get revenge and frighten her with a simulacrum that he has made with a large Jack-o'-lantern he carves for a head, tree branches for a body, pegs for joints, and old clothes from Mombi's chest. Mombi has always been extremely mean and abusive to Tip. The protagonist of the novel is an orphan boy called Tip.įor as long as he can remember, Tip has been under the guardianship of a cruel Wicked Witch named Mombi and lives in the northern quadrant of Oz called Gillikin Country.
The events are set shortly after the events in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and after Dorothy Gale's departure back to Kansas.
Plot elements from The Marvelous Land of Oz are included in the 1985 Disney feature film Return to Oz. It was also adapted in comic book form by Marvel Comics once in 1975 in the Marvel Treasury of Oz series, and again in an eight issue series with the first issue being released in November 2009. The book was made into an episode of The Shirley Temple Show in 1960, and into a Canada/Japan co-produced animated series of the same name in 1986. This and the next 34 Oz books of the famous 40 were illustrated by John R. Frank Baum's books set in the Land of Oz, and the sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, commonly shortened to The Land of Oz, published in July 1904, is the second of L.
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