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** Followed by Marvel's adaptation of ''The Marvelous Land of Oz''
** ''Oz: the Manga'' from Antarctic Press.
** The [https://web.archive.org/web/20120625062852/http://www.calibercomics.com/TITLES/oz.htm Oz comics] from Caliber Comics.
** ''[[Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew]]! In The Oz-Wonderland War Trilogy'' from DC Comics.
** There's a comic book series based on the Oz books with main characters cast as 1990s-style superheroes called the ''[http://sentient39.comicgenesis.com/ozsquad.html Oz Squad]'', written by [https://web.archive.org/web/20131026101937/http://www.steveahlquist.com/ Steve Ahlquist].
** There's also a [[Manhwa]] called ''[[Dorothy of Oz (manhwa)]]''.
** Ozma and the Nome King are featured prominently in the Vertigo series ''[[Fables]]''.
* There's a CGI movie in pre-production{{when}} from John Boorman, the director of ''[[Zardoz]]''.
* Several video games have been released based on the series
** An RPG called ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130705053911/http://www.rpgamer.com/games/other/nds/rizzoawd/rizzoawd.html RIZ-ZOAWD]'' (an anagram of "Wizard Oz"), released in Japan by Media.Vision, which is highly stylized and re-imagined.
** A point and click game featuring Oz characters in 1940s film noir Emerald City at [http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/ Wadjet Eye Games] called ''[
* A made-for-television biopic, ''The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story'', was made in 1990 and told the story of how the Oz books came to be. The cast included John Ritter as Baum and Rue McClanahan as his suffragette mother-in-law Matilda Gage. This movie is included as a bonus feature on the 2009 DVD and Blu-Ray releases of the 1939 adaptation.
* A [[Tabletop Game]] (''[http://newwwoz.blogspot.com/2010/06/adventures-in-oz-rpg.html Adventures in Oz: Fantasy Roleplaying Beyond the Yellow Brick Road]'') based on the Baum books was released in 2010.
* Another [[Tabletop Game]] released in November 2010 ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120820044326/http://www.emeraldcityexpeditions.com/ecehome.html Oz: Dark and Terrible]'' takes a [[Darker and Edgier]] look at the source material, yet is still oddly faithful to the original books.
* ''[[Tom and Jerry]] and The Wizard of Oz'', a 2011 [[Direct to Video]] animated feature, is a [[Twice-Told Tale]] version of the 1939 film that adds the battling cat and mouse to the story. (The same company holds the rights to both the cartoon characters and the movie.)
* ''[[A Barnstormer in Oz]]'', a 1982 novel by [[Philip José Farmer]] in which Dorothy's son, the titular barnstormer, accidentally flies his biplane into Oz and discovers that while it has many fantastic elements, it's far from the fairyland that Baum portrayed it as when telling his mother's story.
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