Welcome to the 940th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. In the first legend of an all-comic strip edition of Comic Book Legends Revealed, discover the surprising reason behind the introduction of a Peanuts character.
I assume that you’re all familiar with the story of The Wizard of Oz, right? The L. Frank Baum-written children’s novel that became a popular piece of pop culture for years after its publication, highlighted by the 1939 movie adaptation starring Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale. Well, in the film, Dorothy famously wears ruby slippers. In the BOOK, however, she wears SILVER slippers, and it appears as though this was because Baum wrote the book as a political allegory of the then-current debate over whether the United States’ currency should be based on a gold standard, or a silver standard.
Is that take supportable? Possibly. It seems like a bit of a stretch, if only because it was only really written about DECADES after the book had been released, so I personally doubt that that was Baum’s intent, but if it was, it would just be one in a long line of children’s literature that was based on a political allegory that no one would understand decades later.
Welcome to the 940th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. In the first legend of an all-comic strip edition of Comic Book Legends Revealed, discover the surprising reason behind the introduction of a Peanuts character.
I assume that you’re all familiar with the story of The Wizard of Oz, right? The L. Frank Baum-written children’s novel that became a popular piece of pop culture for years after its publication, highlighted by the 1939 movie adaptation starring Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale. Well, in the film, Dorothy famously wears ruby slippers. In the BOOK, however, she wears SILVER slippers, and it appears as though this was because Baum wrote the book as a political allegory of the then-current debate over whether the United States’ currency should be based on a gold standard, or a silver standard.
Is that take supportable? Possibly. It seems like a bit of a stretch, if only because it was only really written about DECADES after the book had been released, so I personally doubt that that was Baum’s intent, but if it was, it would just be one in a long line of children’s literature that was based on a political allegory that no one would understand decades later.
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