In 1900, Baum and Denslow ( with whom he shared the copyright ) published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to much critical acclaim and financial success.

He spoke of his identification with Holden Caulfield and with Dorothy of The Wizard of Oz, and his conferences with the " Little People ," an imaginary set of people with whom he had interacted and taken guidance from and controlled, starting from when he was a child.

This breaks the curse on Wizard Suliman and Prince Justin, whom the Witch had fused together in an effort to create a ' perfect human ' ( Howl's head was meant to complete the being ) to use as a puppet to rule Ingary.

The ' Green Wizard ' Carolinus ( Harry Morgan ) discovers magic failing as humanity embraces science, and summons his magic brothers Lo Tae Zhao ( Don Messick ) the Golden Wizard ; Solarius ( Paul Frees ) the Blue Wizard ; and Ommadon ( James Earl Jones ) the Red Wizard, accompanied by their dragons Shen Tsu, Lunarian, and Bryagh ( James Gregory ), to whom he explains that the world's magic is dying and outlines a plan to save it by creating a ' Last Realm of Magic ' wherein all magical beings can live, hidden from the rest of the world.

Just as they are about to be sentenced to death by the Mangaboos, a hot air balloon falls out of the sky, and in the basket is the Wizard of Oz, whom Dorothy last met as he floated away from the Emerald City.

He was first commissioned to illustrate The Marvelous Land of Oz, the second Oz book L. Frank Baum wrote, published in 1904 ; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz had been illustrated by W. W. Denslow, with whom Baum argued and lost contact afterward.

* The house of Mombi, a witch whom the Wizard hired to transform and keep hidden Ozma, the rightful ruler of Oz.

In the 1990 novel The Tin Man, by Dale Brown, the eponymous protagonist is a power-armored vigilante whom the media and police have dubbed The Tin Man for his physical resemblance to the Wizard of Oz character.

With Nick's help, they find out that their dials were created by a being called The Wizard ( not to be confused with the DC Comics villain of the same name ), whom the Master thought he'd killed years before.

* Morgan Lightfingers is a notorious thief and con artist whom all classes meet under different circumstances: the Wizard must capture him early in the game, while the Warrior must cooperate with him to escape from Castle Galava prison ; to the Conjurer, Morgan simply sells a cheap bow.

She later has a meeting with the Wizard to bargain for the release of Nor, whom Elphaba learns is the last survivor of Fiyero's family.

The film also features Billy Curtis and Jerry Maren, both of whom also played Munchkins in the Wizard of Oz.

He then destroyed the Wizard, breaking the spell on the Green Ranger, whom he now called Tom.

She has said that she was never given a full reason for her dismissal, but that she had previously also got into trouble by trying to introduce the term " German expressionism " into some copy about the performing dwarves used in the MGM film, The Wizard of Oz, some of whom came from Weimar Germany.

The Wizard, however, heard how to correctly pronounce " Pyrzqxgl " and first stops Kiki and Ruggedo by transforming them into a walnut and a hickory nut.

The Wizard uses " Pyrzqxgl " to change them back to Kiki Aru and Ruggedo and make them thirsty enough to drink the Water of Oblivion, which will make them forget all that they have ever known.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz had been transformed into a stage play, and in this work, several elements were clearly incorporated with an eye to that adaptation and to the possible adaptations of this work.

The Wizard learns that the crusty goat is actually Prince Bobo of Boboland, and the enchanter who transformed him into a goat is long since dead ; however, Glinda is able to change him back to human form.

In 1987 Borland purchased Wizard Systems and incorporated portions of the Wizard C technology into Turbo C. Bob Jervis, the author of Wizard C became a Borland employee.

Jittlov released his footage the following year to 16mm film collectors as a short film titled The Wizard of Speed and Time, along with four of his other short multi-technique animated films, most of which eventually evolved into his own feature-length film of the same title.

Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera ( 1912 ) features a portable movie camera, not invented until 1923, and Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive ( 1922 ) was published two years before the Central Railroad of New Jersey placed the first diesel electric locomotive into service.

In the second season episode " The Wizard of Fraggle Rock ," he fools Wembley into switching places with him.

In the " Acts of Vengeance " crossover, the Skull demands the Wizard apologize for an insult to which the Wizard replies " You'll see yourself welcomed into Heaven before I speak those words!

Although the track " No Hard Feelings " recently broke into the Modern Rock Top 50, their second single " Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss " ( which is featured in a Blaupunkt, a BGL Grand Wizard ad ) has started radio circulation with a music video airing limitedly on a few music channels.

Roger Ebert referred to the city in his review of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as a " spectacular achievement ", and showcased the filmmakers ' ability to blend digital and real sets into one piece, and comparing it to the Emerald City from The Wizard of Oz.

While the title of it and Roger Dean's sleeve both suggested that the band was romantically working medieval myth into their songs-and surely songs like " Rainbow Demon " and " The Wizard " ( co-written by Mark Clarke, during his short stay ) did have thematical links with fantasy world-more straightforward, hard-rocking approach was also obvious.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o's literary works include Caitani Mutharabaini ( 1981 ), Matigari ( 1986 ) and Murogi wa Kagogo ( Wizard of the Crow ( 2006 )) which is the largest known Kikuyu language novel having been translated into more than thirty languages

Richard Corliss noted that the film appeared to have been influenced by The Wizard of Oz and the works of Maurice Sendak, writing that " Labyrinth lures a modern Dorothy Gale out of the drab Kansas of real life into a land where the wild things are.

At the end of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy explains to Glinda that she must return home because her aunt and uncle cannot afford to go into mourning for her because it was too expensive.

In the film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, the silver shoes were turned into ruby for the cinematic effect of color, as Technicolor was still in its early years when the movie was produced.

He is rescued from down-trodden and hungry service at Wizard Blenkinsop's and throws himself wholeheartedly into battle against Uncle's enemies, though never quite ridding himself of a propensity to steal fish and postage stamps.

His main pedagogical texts have been translated into English, but of his fiction, only two of his novels have been translated into English: King Matt the First and Kaytek the Wizard.

Though he had previously had little regard for Lloyd George, the opportunity of working closely with the “ Welsh Wizard ” gave Chamberlain a new insight into his nominal superior in the government ( by now, the Conservative Party was by far the largest partner in the government ).

New DJs, turntablists and crews owe a distinct debt to old-school DJs like Kool DJ Herc, Grand Wizard Theodore, Grandmaster Flash, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Afrika Bambaataa and other DJs of the golden age of hip hop, who originally developed many of the concepts and techniques that evolved into modern turntablism.

Circe transforms intruders to her island into swine, whereas Ged, in A Wizard of Earthsea, becomes a hawk to escape an evil wizard's stronghold.

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( 1900 ) by L. Frank Baum, a lumberjack's cursed axe chopped all his limbs one by one, and each time a limb was cut off, a smith made him a mechanical one, finally making him a torso and a head, thus turning him into the Tin Woodman, an entirely mechanical being, albeit possessing the consciousness of the lumberjack he once was.

She also puts a spell on Sophie at the start of the story, turning her into an old crone. The Witch is also revealed to have made a supposedly perfect man out of the combined parts of Wizard Suliman and Prince Justin, intending to complete the body with Howl's head and make the man King of Ingary and herself queen.

Under pressure from Glinda, Mombi admits that the Wizard brought her the infant Ozma and that she used her magic to transform her into the boy Tip.

The Wizard of Id follows a gag-a-day format, plus a color Sunday page.

The Wizard of New Zealand QSM, Directed by Grant John Neville and Director of Photography Karlos Filipov is an award winning documentary that follows the life of the first ever man in the world to be appointed by a government as an Official Wizard.

The story is a parody of the tale of Faust, and follows the events of Sourcery in which the Wizard Rincewind was trapped in the Dungeon Dimensions.

He follows her to the Emerald City to get a heart from The Wizard of Oz.

* A new song, " Champagne ", which follows " Pinball Wizard ", covers the sequence of Tommy's stardom and wealth and his parents ' greed.