Ever since L. Frank Baum first wrote about the magical land of Oz more than a century ago in his classic novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), our own world has been familiar with such Oz-visiting or Oz-inhabiting characters as Dorothy Gale, the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Woodman, the Wicked Witch of the West, Glinda the Good Witch, the Munchkins, the Flying Monkeys, and of course the Wizard himself, together with a great many more who appear in the numerous sequels that he subsequently wrote. Yet, strangely, Baum failed to make any mention of Oz's sizeable contingent of biker residents, not to mention the continuous influx of biker tourists to this enchanted realm. Consequently, in an attempt to redress such a long-overlooked, shameful situation - after all, Oz as a whole and the Emerald City in particular owe much of their financial stability to the revenue that they derive from the considerable earnings of their biker citizens and the appreciable cash spent here by their two-wheeled tourists - I have created a series of three galleries highlighting the truly brilliant bikers of Oz! And here's the first one.
True, in earlier galleries I did bring to attention the Bilious Biker of Oz, the Emerald City's malevolent, despicable emperor (click here, here & here to access them) who puts even the green-furred Grinch to shame in that department (so it's little wonder why Baun chose never to allude to him!), as well as a visit to Oz (and also Wonderland) made by all-round good guy & intergalactic super-hero Brash Morgan (click here to view that gallery). But this is the first time that I have presented Oz, its inhabitants & its incomers, most especially those of a biker persuasion, on a grand scale. So here is the first of three such galleries, in which you'll encounter a vast assembly of Oz characters, some of them familiar (with a few having become bikers themselves nowadays) but many of them hitherto unknown (and not all of them pleasant either!), even to Baum himself. However, as Baum was not a biker himself (at least not as far as I'm aware), that could explain a lot! Enjoy!
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More of my AI-created biker images next time!
Plus: please click here to access a chronological listing of fully clickable links to all galleries uploaded by me on this blog. NB - all of the images included in this page's gallery were created by me, RebelBikerDude, using the AI image-generation programs Magic Studio, Grok, Dream Lab & Adobe Firefly, for non-commercial, entertainment purposes only, and do not feature any real-life persons or copyrighted characters.
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