The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an eight-issue comic book

Comic book

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 limited series

Limited series

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 adapting the L. Frank Baum

L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz...

 novel of the same name

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900, it has since been reprinted numerous times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz, which is the name of...

. The series was written by Eric Shanower

Eric Shanower

Eric James Shanower is an American comics artist and writer, best known for his Oz novels and comics and the on-going retelling of the Trojan War as Age of Bronze.-Biography:...

 with art by Skottie Young

Skottie Young

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 and published by Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics

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Plot summary

After being transported by a cyclone

Cyclone

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 to the Land of Oz

Land of Oz

Oz is a fantasy region containing four lands under the rule of one monarch.It was first introduced in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, one of many fantasy countries that he created for his books. It achieved a popularity that none of his other works attained, and after four years, he...

, Dorothy Gale

Dorothy Gale

Dorothy Gale is the protagonist of many of the Oz novels by American author L. Frank Baum, and the best friend of Oz's ruler Princess Ozma. Dorothy first appears in Baum's classic children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and reappears in most of its sequels...

 travels to the Emerald City

Emerald City

The Emerald City is the fictional capital city of the Land of Oz in L. Frank Baum's Oz books, first described in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz...

 to try to find a way home. Along her way she joins with a Scarecrow

Scarecrow (Oz)

The Scarecrow is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum and illustrator William Wallace Denslow. In his first appearance, the Scarecrow reveals that he lacks a brain and desires above all else to have one. In reality, he is only two days old and merely...

, a Tin Woodman

Tin Woodman

The Tin Woodman, sometimes referred to as the Tin Man or the Tin Woodsman , is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum...

 and a Cowardly Lion

Cowardly Lion

The Cowardly Lion is the main character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum. He is a Lion, but he talks and interacts with humans....

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Collected editions

The series has been collected into a single volume

Trade paperback (comics)

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• 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

IGN

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 gave the issues of the series an average rating of 9.2 out of 10.

It won the 2010 Eisners

Eisner Award

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 for Best Limited Series or Story Arc and Best Publication for Kids.

Sequel

The series has been followed by adaptations of The Marvelous Land of Oz

The Marvelous Land of Oz

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 on July 5, 1904, is the second of L. Frank Baum's books set in the Land of Oz, and the sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. This and the next...

and Ozma of Oz

Ozma of Oz

Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein published on July 30, 1907, was the third book of L....

by the same team.