Cowardly Lion - wikipedia Cowardly Lion The Cowardly Lion Oz character The Cowardly Lion as illustrated by William Wallace Denslow ( 1900 ) First appearance The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( 1900 ) Created by L. Frank Baum Portrayed by Bert Lahr Information Aliases Dandy Lion Species Lion Gender Male Occupation King of the Forest of Wild Beasts Ozma 's chariot puller Title King of the Forest The Cowardly Lion is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum. He is an African lion, but he speaks and interacts with humans. Since lions are supposed to be `` The Kings of Beasts, '' the Cowardly Lion believes that his fear makes him inadequate. He does not understand that courage means acting in the face of fear, which he does frequently. Only during the aftereffects of the Wizard 's gift, when he is under the influence of an unknown liquid substance that the Wizard orders him to drink ( perhaps gin ) is he not filled with fear. He argues that the courage from the Wizard is only temporary, although he continues to do brave deeds while openly and embarrassedly fearful. Contents 1 Books 2 Film portrayals 2.1 The Wizard of Oz 2.1. 1 Cowardly Lion Courage Medal 2.1. 2 Cowardly Lion costumes 2.2 Return to Oz 2.3 The Oz Kids 2.4 Legends of Oz : Dorothy 's Return 2.5 Oz : The Great and Powerful 3 Recent works and parodies 4 Speculated origins 5 Political interpretations 6 See also 7 References Books Dorothy meets the Cowardly Lion, from the first edition. The Cowardly Lion makes his first appearance in the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He is the last of the companions Dorothy befriends on her way to the Emerald City where he ambushes her, Toto, Scarecrow, and Tin Woodman. When he tries to bite Toto, Dorothy slaps him for trying to attack Toto where she discovers that the Lion is actually a coward which he admits that he is. The Cowardly Lion joins her so that he can ask The Wizard for courage, being ashamed that, in his cultural role as the King of the Beasts, he is not indeed brave. Despite outward evidence that he is unreasonably fearful, The Cowardly Lion displays great bravery along the way. During the journey, he leaps across a chasm on the road of yellow brick multiple times, each time with a companion on his back, and the leap back to get the next one. When they come into another, wider chasm, the Cowardly Lion holds off two Kalidahs while the Tin Woodman cuts a tall tree to cross it. In spite of his fears, he still goes off to hunt for his food, and he even offers to kill a deer for Dorothy to eat, but the idea makes her uncomfortable. The Wizard gives him a dish of unknown liquid, telling him it is `` courage '' to drink. In the remainder of the book, the Lion becomes almost like a bully and ready to fight. He accompanies Dorothy on her journey to see Glinda, and allows his friends to stand on his back in order to escape the Dainty China Country, where he damages the only church mentioned in an Oz book until Handy Mandy in Oz ( 1937 ). His favored companion is the Hungry Tiger. This may well be the `` Biggest of the Tigers '' he and his friends encounter in the Forest of Wild Beasts in the Quadling Country In this forest, all of the lions and many of the other animals have been eaten by a Giant Spider. The Lion finds the Giant Spider asleep and decapitates it. The Tiger and the other animals bow to him and ask him to be their king, and he promises to do so upon his return from accompanying Dorothy to Glinda. Glinda orders the Winged Monkeys to carry him back to the Forest once Dorothy has returned home. In the rest of Baum 's Oz series, the Lion never again played a major role. In later books, The Cowardly Lion often accompanies Dorothy on her adventures. He is Princess Ozma 's chief guardian on state occasions, and he and the Hungry Tiger pull Ozma 's chariot. In subsequent Oz books by Baum, the Lion was shown to have continued being courageous and loyal, although still considering himself a coward and regularly frightened, even by Aunt Em. He befriended the Hungry Tiger in Ozma of Oz, if this was not the earlier Tiger ( which The Patchwork Girl of Oz implies that it is by calling both Lion and Tiger `` largest of their kind '' ), and the two have become Ozma 's personal guards. In Glinda of Oz he is on Ozma 's board of advisers. In `` The Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger '' in Little Wizard Stories of Oz, the Lion begins with cowardly bravado, intending to find a man to tear apart, and the Tiger a fat baby to devour. Instead, they find a small child ( bigger than a baby ) and return it to its mother. In his titular novel by Ruth Plumly Thompson, Mustafa of Mudge, a wealthy sultan at the southern tip of the Munchkin Country, kidnaps the Cowardly Lion for his large collection of lions that he feels would be incomplete without Oz 's most famous lion. He was turned to stone by the giant Crunch, but rescued by American circus clown Notta Bit More and orphan Bobbie Downs, whom the clown prefers to call by the more optimistic - sounding Bob Up. For the most part in later Oz books, though, the Cowardly Lion is a presence rather than a major character. His other significant appearances include Ojo in Oz, where he is turned into a clock by Mooj and saved by Ozma and the Wizard. He assisted against the Stratovanians in Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz, Terp the Terrible in The Hidden Valley of Oz, and accompanied Dorothy and Prince Gules of Halidom in Merry Go Round in Oz. John R. Neill played him primarily as a beast of burden in his three Oz books. In all, the only three books in which the Cowardly Lion does not rate at least a mention are The Tin Woodman of Oz, Grampa in Oz, and The Silver Princess in Oz. ( In The Marvelous Land of Oz he receives a bare mention in the eleventh chapter. ) Film portrayals The Wizard of Oz Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion for the 1939 film. In the classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, the Cowardly Lion was a humanoid biped and played by Bert Lahr, a popular vaudeville and Broadway star, with many of Lahr 's trademark mannerisms deliberately worked into the film. In this version, the liquid courage given to him by the Wizard is replaced with a medal marked `` Courage ''. Bert Lahr 's biography, written by his son John Lahr, is entitled Notes on a Cowardly Lion. The movie was made by Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer, which uses a lion as its mascot. In fact, MGM even considered using their mascot for the role of the Cowardly Lion. In the movie, the Lion walks on his hind legs instead of all four, except when he is first seen bounding out of the forest to attack Dorothy 's friends. After roaring fiercely at them on all fours, he does stand up on his hind legs. Lahr also portrayed the Lion 's Kansas counterpart, Zeke ( one of Aunt Em and Uncle Henry 's farmworkers ). Screenwriter Noel Langley created this character for the film. Zeke helps Hickory ( Tin Man 's alter ego ) lower a bed into its place on a wagon at the farm. He then moves the hogs into the pig pen and pours feed into their trough and later rescues Dorothy when she falls off the railing that encircles the pen. He wears his hat throughout the entire film because he does not struggle to open the cellar when the tornado approaches the farm. Hunk ( Scarecrow 's alter ego ) closes and locks the cellar with him when Dorothy arrives at the farmhouse. Zeke and Professor Marvel ( The Wizard 's alter ego ) are the only men wearing hats when Dorothy awakens from being unconscious. Cowardly Lion courage medal Cowardly Lion 's courage medal used for the 1939 film. The original Courage Medal prop from the 1939 film has been recently rediscovered. The cross-shaped medal is made of poly - chromed metal and measures 7.5 × 7.5 '' ( 19.1 × 19.1 cm ) It features a lion in profile above a crown and a knight 's helmet, and the word `` Courage '' in raised blue scroll lettering. In the late 1950s, Mal Caplan, the head of the costume department at MGM was in a life - threatening automobile accident, and spent months in the hospital before returning to work. For some time he was unable to sit upright and had to work from a chaise longue. In recognition of his courage, his colleagues and the management at MGM presented him with the Cowardly Lion 's Courage Medal. He was also given the Tin Man 's `` heart '', but he gave that to `` someone who needed it '', a man in the same hospital who was having open heart surgery. The current whereabouts of the heart clock are unknown. The Courage Medal remained in the Caplan family until it was consigned to a Sotheby 's Entertainment Memorabilia auction in May 1997. The medal was purchased by a New Jersey collector, and in Nov. of 2010 was featured on episode 7 of the TV show Hollywood Treasure. Cowardly Lion costumes An original Cowardly Lion costume from The Wizard of Oz was packed away after filming and forgotten for decades. It was found barely in time to be included in the landmark 1970 Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer auction, where it sold for $2400 to a California chiropractor. In 1985, sculptor Bill Mack acquired it ; he could not recall the exact price, but stated, `` It was several thousand dollars, instead of several hundred thousand ''. He had it restored by a taxidermist and `` recreated the headpiece with a lifelike sculpture of Lahr ''. In December 2006, he sold it for $826,000. Another costume currently resides in the Comisar Collection, the largest collection of television artifacts in the world. Curator James Comisar acquired the costume, after verifying to his satisfaction that it had been worn in the film, and set about restoring it. The major challenge was the weight of the tail caused rips across the back of the costume that needed to be patched, which was done by Cara Varnell, a textile conservation expert at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Cowardly Lion 's original facial appliances had been glued directly to Bert Lahr 's face and did not survive the production, so Comisar asked Lahr 's son, Herbert, to model for another face cast, as he had an uncanny resemblance to his father. Herbert Lahr remarked : The Lion 's suit was very interesting. It was a real lion skin, and it weighed 60 lbs. My dad had to be in it all day, he could n't eat because of the way the mask was, so he had to eat his lunch through a straw. The Cowardly Lion 's mane was re-created from human hair imported from Italy at a cost of $22,000, and more than twenty - one artisans worked for two years completing the conservation. Comisar 's Cowardly Lion costume has been featured in the national media, including on The Oprah Winfrey Show, when it was then valued at $1.5 million. The costume is thought to be among the most valuable and iconic Hollywood objects in existence. `` Most of us can not relate to not having a brain or a heart ; we can all relate to not having enough courage, and it is for this reason I believe the Cowardly Lion is the character we respond to the most, '' said Comisar. Many potential buyers have expressed interest in buying the costume, but so far he has rejected all offers. Comisar 's costume was offered by Bonhams in their TCM - themed auction that took place in New York City on November 24, 2014, where it received great interest and realized the selling price of $3.1 million, and this is the highest known price point for a costume worn by a male performer in any Hollywood production. William Stillman, a noted historian and co-author of several books about the film, featured a full - page photograph of this Cowardly Lion costume in his book, The Wizardry of Oz : The Artistry and the Magic of the M.G.M. 1939 Classic. The accompanying text states, `` While Bert Lahr appears to wear the same costume throughout the picture, others were available for dress rehearsals or for the stunt double to bound onto the Yellow Brick Road, leap through a window in the Emerald City, or scale the cliffs outside the Witch 's castle. '' In 1998, both Comisar and auctioneering company Profiles in History, on behalf of Mack, insisted they had Lahr 's costume. `` The Wiz '' In the 1978 film version of the all black Broadway play, the Lion was portrayed by Ted Ross, who won a Tony for his Broadway portrayal. Return to Oz Main article : Return to Oz In the 1985 spiritual sequel to The Wizard of Oz, the Cowardly Lion is briefly seen at the end of the film. Unlike the 1939 film, this version is a puppet and walks on all fours. He is also shown growling rather than speaking. The Oz Kids In 1996, they made an animated cartoon series The Oz Kids. Lion becomes a father and has two cubs, Bela and Boris. His son Boris is afraid of things just like his dad. His voiced by Andy Milder. Legends of Oz : Dorothy 's return Main article : Legends of Oz : Dorothy 's Return The Cowardly Lion appeared in Legends of Oz : Dorothy 's Return ( based on Dorothy of Oz ) voiced by Jim Belushi. Oz : the great and Powerful The Cowardly Lion makes a brief cameo in Oz : The Great and Powerful, as a CGI character. He briefly tries to attack Oz ( played by James Franco ), and his monkey companion Finley ( voiced by Zach Braff ), but Oz uses his magic to create a velvet fog that intimidates the lion, causing him to immediately retreat. Recent works and parodies The Cowardly Lion is a minor character in author Gregory Maguire 's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and its 2003 Broadway musical adaptation. In both works, he is first seen as a Lion Cub ( lion with human attributes ) who has been torn from his mother and used as an experiment ( in the book by Doctor Dillamond 's replacement, Doctor Nikidik, and in the musical an agent of the Wizard ) on the nature of Animals. Elphaba ( the future Wicked Witch of the West ) saves the Lion Cub that in the end of both adaptations attempts to kill her. He also appears in Maguire 's 2005 sequel Son of a Witch, also in a minor role. The Cowardly Lion is the central character in the third book of the series, A Lion Among Men, where he is given the name of Brrr, which was the name given to him in Wicked. Doctor Nikidik mentions that he intended to give the Lion Cub the name of Prrr, but since `` it shivers more than it purrs, '' he names it Brrr. In an episode of The World 's Greatest Super Friends, Wonder Woman temporarily became the Lion after a tornado took her, Superman, and Aquaman to Oz. While passing Mister Mxyzptlk 's dangerous landscape, she had lower legs of an African lion. She did not get her red boots back until she reached the Wizard ( Mister Mxyzptlk himself ) with Superman and Aquaman. In a 1981 episode of Scooby - Doo and Scrappy - Doo, Scooby is dressed as the Lion after a tornado took him, Shaggy, and Scrappy to `` Ahz '', a direct spoof of Oz with a different spelling by its enunciation. He appears in The Wizard of Oz cartoon voiced by Charlie Adler. The Cowardly Lion has his brave / cowardly persona intact, and even gets to wear the Ruby Slippers for a short while in one episode. Nathan Lane performs as this character in the 1995 television stage performance The Wizard of Oz in Concert : Dreams Come True. The Kansas farmworker Zeke does not appear in this production. He sings the longer version of `` If I Only Had the Nerve '' including the bridge verses sung by the Scarecrow ( Jackson Browne ), Tin Man ( Roger Daltrey ), and Dorothy ( Jewel ). In his version of If I Were King of the Forest, he has an addition into the lyrics `` Not queen, not duke, not prince... or the Artist Formerly known as Prince ''. In the ABC television film The Muppets ' Wizard of Oz, Fozzie Bear plays the role of the Lion. Fozzie 's other role is himself. He shows up at the end of this film in the Muppets ' show. In the VeggieTales episode The Wonderful Wizard of Ha 's, he is renamed the `` Hungry Lion '' who was played by Pa Grape. His Kansas counterpart from the 1939 film also appeared in this Christian cartoon. In the 2007 Sci Fi television miniseries Tin Man, the Lion is re-imagined as a character named Raw, a member of the race of Viewers - half - man, half - lion beings with telekinetic and empathic abilities. He is played by Raoul Trujillo The Cowardly Lion appears in Dorothy and the Witches of Oz played by Barry Ratcliffe. He appears on Earth in the form of Dorothy Gale 's lawyer Bryan Jennings. The Cowardly Lion appears in the direct - to - DVD animated film Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz voiced by Todd Stashwick. In the Dorothy Must Die series by Danielle Paige, looking at a dark sequel to the original Oz series where Dorothy and her friends have been corrupted by Dorothy 's use of magic and the gifts they received from the Wizard, the Lion has become a giant, brutal warrior who walks on his hind legs, draining the fear from others to increase his own strength. In the second novel in the series, The Wicked Will Rise, protagonist Amy Gumm is able to take the Lion 's courage by cutting off his tail, realizing that it has been sewn onto his hindquarters, but Amy spares the Lion despite being tempted to kill him. The Lion is subsequently bound and forced to fight for Dorothy despite his fear, forcing Amy to kill him despite her past actions. In the TV series Emerald City, the Cowardly Lion analogue is Eamonn and is portrayed by Mido Hamada. He is presented as unquestioningly loyal member of the Wizard 's Guard who is personally tasked with finding Dorothy before she reaches Emerald City and doing whatever it takes to prevent the return of the Beast Forever. As the series unfolds, he is revealed to have assisted the Wizard of Oz in killing the Royal Family of Oz when the Wizard first came to power, but initially spared the princess Ozma as she reminded him of his own daughter. When Ozma learns of her past and assumes her role as leader of Oz, she punishes Eammon by condemning him to be trapped in the form of a beast, turning him into a Lion due to the lion mask he wore when killing her family. The Cowardly Lion appears in the Once Upon a Time episode `` Where Bluebirds Fly. '' Though he does n't speak, the Cowardly Lion still has his traits. The Cowardly Lion was a line of defense for the Crimson Heart that is sought out by Stanum and Zelena. After the Cowardly Lion attacks Stanum, he is driven away by Zelena. Speculated origins In the original Oz books, the Lion 's origins were never explicitly stated. However, many works since then have either hinted at or revealed elements of backstory for the Cowardly Lion. Partly due to the large amount of written material about Oz, many of these stories are contradictory to each other or to the `` Famous Forty '' Oz books, and many fans do not accept them as canonical. The canonical books give no indication the Lion did not originate in Oz, essentially as a normal, if unique, lion. A skittish and fearful lion cub is seen at Shiz University in Gregory Maguire 's novel, Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. The cub had been the result of cruel experiments by Dr. Dillamond 's replacement teacher ( in the musical, it was an agent of the Wizard ) and was saved by Elphaba and some other students. This is heavily hinted to be a younger form of the Cowardly Lion. The Tin Woodman confirms this in the Broadway musical adaptation Wicked, in the song `` March of the Witch Hunters '' : `` And the lion also has a grievance to repay ! If she 'd let him fight his own battles when he was young, he would n't be a coward today ! '' The book Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage and its accompanying animated feature, Lion of Oz, show the Lion as having grown up in a circus in America. His caretaker, Oscar Diggs, was the man who would become the Wizard of Oz ; this man took the Lion on a balloon ride one night, which resulted in the two becoming stranded in Oz. Gregory Maguire 's most recent book, A Lion Among Men, is told primarily from the Lion 's viewpoint, and its plot is centered around Brrr 's account of his own origins, or lack thereof ( he is unsure, as his narration begins, of the whereabouts of his parents, pride, etc. ). The film Oz the Great and Powerful shows Oscar Diggs driving away an attacking lion with a smoke bomb, suggesting that this lion is Dorothy 's future companion. In the 2017 TV series Emerald City, the Lion is a former guard in the Wizard 's army who is cursed into the form of a beast for his actions against the former Royal Family of Oz. Political interpretations Main article : Political interpretations of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz Some historians, such as Henry M. Littlefield in American Quarterly, have suggested that Baum modeled the Cowardly Lion after politician William Jennings Bryan, or politicians in general. See also Lions in literature References Jump up ^ Jack Snow, Who 's Who in Oz, Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1954 ; New York, Peter Bedrick Books, 1988 ; p. 46. ISBN 0 - 87226 - 188 - 3 Jump up ^ L. Frank Baum, The Annotated Wizard of Oz, Michael Patrick Hearn, ed., New York, Crown, 1976 ; p. 148. ISBN 0 - 517 - 50086 - 8 Jump up ^ Snow, p. 99. Jump up ^ http://www.witness.co.za/index.php?showcontent&global%5B_id%5D=73897 Jump up ^ Sotheby 's Auction Catalog -- May 21, 1997 Jump up ^ Sotheby 's Entertainment & Memorabilia Auction Beverly Hills, CA -- May 21, 1997 Jump up ^ John M. Glionna ( May 22, 1997 ). `` Lights, Camera, Auction ''. Los Angeles Times. ^ Jump up to : David Allen Ibsen ( January 1, 2007 ). `` Cowardly, but Costly : Wizard of Oz 's Cowardly Lion Costume Auctioned - off on eBay ''. Archived from the original on June 7, 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2011. ^ Jump up to : Chuck Haga ( December 19, 2006 ). `` King of Forest rules at auction ; Somebody put up $826,000 to buy the Cowardly Lion costume from a Twin Cities artist ''. Star Tribune. Jump up ^ M.P. McQueen ( May 16, 2007 ). `` Perishable Art : Investing In Works That May Not Last ''. The Wall Street Journal. Jump up ^ `` Ann Curry interview with James Comisar on The Today Show ''. tvtour.org. ^ Jump up to : `` The History Channel documentary on the Cowardly Lion costume ''. ^ Jump up to : `` TLC 's Hunt for Amazing Treasure April 27, 2004 episode ''. tvtour.org. Jump up ^ `` The Oprah Winfrey Show episode `` America 's Fascination with Hollywood Memorabilia '' ``. Jump up ^ Wall Street Journal `` Old Pelt for Sale '' November 14, 2014 Jump up ^ CNN Money `` Cowardly Lion costume sells for $3.1 Million '' November 24, 2014 Jump up ^ The Wizardry of Oz : The Artistry and the Magic of the M.G.M 1939 Classic, William Stillman and Jay Scarfone Jump up ^ `` Whose Cat Suit Is It, Anyway ? ''. People magazine. December 21, 1998. Retrieved June 29, 2011. Jump up ^ Gerald Leinwand, William Jennings Bryan : An Uncertain Trumpet, Lanham, MD, Rowman and Littlefield, 2007 ; p. 171. ISBN 0 - 7425 - 5158 - X Wikiquote has quotations related to : Cowardly Lion The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Canonical books L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( 1900 ) The Marvelous Land of Oz ( 1904 ) Ozma of Oz ( 1907 ) Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz ( 1908 ) The Road to Oz ( 1909 ) The Emerald City of Oz ( 1910 ) The Patchwork Girl of Oz ( 1913 ) Tik - Tok of Oz ( 1914 ) The Scarecrow of Oz ( 1915 ) Rinkitink in Oz ( 1916 ) The Lost Princess of Oz ( 1917 ) The Tin Woodman of Oz ( 1918 ) The Magic of Oz ( 1919 ) Glinda of Oz ( 1920 ) Ruth Plumly Thompson The Royal Book of Oz ( 1921 ) Kabumpo in Oz ( 1922 ) The Cowardly Lion of Oz ( 1923 ) Grampa in Oz ( 1924 ) The Lost King of Oz ( 1925 ) The Hungry Tiger of Oz ( 1926 ) The Gnome King of Oz ( 1927 ) The Giant Horse of Oz ( 1928 ) Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz ( 1929 ) The Yellow Knight of Oz ( 1930 ) Pirates in Oz ( 1931 ) The Purple Prince of Oz ( 1932 ) Ojo in Oz ( 1933 ) Speedy in Oz ( 1934 ) The Wishing Horse of Oz ( 1935 ) Captain Salt in Oz ( 1936 ) Handy Mandy in Oz ( 1937 ) The Silver Princess in Oz ( 1938 ) Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) Others The Wonder City of Oz ( 1940 ) The Scalawagons of Oz ( 1941 ) Lucky Bucky in Oz ( 1942 ) The Magical Mimics in Oz ( 1946 ) The Shaggy Man of Oz ( 1949 ) The Hidden Valley of Oz ( 1951 ) Merry Go Round in Oz ( 1963 ) Yankee in Oz ( 1972 ) The Enchanted Island of Oz ( 1976 ) The Forbidden Fountain of Oz ( 1980 ) The Ozmapolitan of Oz ( 1986 ) The Wicked Witch of Oz ( 1993 ) The Giant Garden of Oz ( 1993 ) The Runaway in Oz ( 1995 ) The Rundelstone of Oz ( 2000 ) The Emerald Wand of Oz ( 2005 ) Trouble Under Oz ( 2006 ) Alternate Dorothy of Oz ( 1989 ) Locations and elements Land of Oz Emerald City Munchkin Country Gillikin Country Winkie Country Quadling Country Yellow brick road Oogaboo Deadly Desert Nonestica Forest of Burzee Land of Ev Merryland Mo Ix Nome Kingdom Noland Ruby slippers Silver Shoes The Oz Film Manufacturing Company Characters Dorothy Gale Toto Princess Ozma The Wizard of Oz Scarecrow Tin Woodman Cowardly Lion Jack Pumpkinhead Tik - Tok Sawhorse Hungry Tiger Good Witch of the North Glinda, the Good Witch of the South Wicked Witch of the West Wicked Witch of the East Aunt Em Uncle Henry Betsy Bobbin Billina Boq Button - Bright Cap'n Bill Eureka Glass Cat Jellia Jamb Jinjur Jinnicky the Red Jinn John Dough Kabumpo Mombi Munchkins Nine Tiny Piglets Nome King Ojo the Lucky Pastoria Patchwork Girl Peter Brown Pigasus Polychrome Queen Lurline Shaggy Man Soldier with the Green Whiskers Trot Winged monkeys Woggle - Bug Other writers Authors John R. Neill Jack Snow Rachel Cosgrove Payes Eloise Jarvis McGraw Dick Martin Alexander Volkov Gregory Maguire Sherwood Smith Roger S. Baum Illustrators William Wallace Denslow Frank Kramer Dirk Gringhuis Dick Martin Eric Shanower William Stout Adaptations and other derivative works Films The Fairylogue and Radio - Plays ( 1908 ) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( 1910 ) Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz ( 1910 ) The Land of Oz ( 1910 ) John Dough and the Cherub ( 1910 ) The Patchwork Girl of Oz ( 1914 ) The Magic Cloak of Oz ( 1914 ) His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz ( 1914 ) The Wizard of Oz ( 1925 ) The Wizard of Oz ( 1933 ) The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) Return to Oz ( 1964 ) The Wonderful Land of Oz ( 1969 ) Ayşecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde ( 1971 ) Journey Back to Oz ( 1974 ) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( 1975 ) The Wiz ( 1978 ) The Wizard of Oz ( 1982 ) Return to Oz ( 1985 ) Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz ( 1987 ) The Dreamer of Oz : The L. Frank Baum Story ( 1990 ) Lion of Oz ( 2000 ) The Muppets ' Wizard of Oz ( 2005 ) Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz ( 2011 ) Dorothy and the Witches of Oz ( 2011 ) After the Wizard ( 2011 ) Oz the Great and Powerful ( 2013 ) Legends of Oz : Dorothy 's Return ( 2014 ) Ozland ( 2014 ) Guardians of Oz ( 2015 ) Tom and Jerry : Back to Oz ( 2016 ) Stage The Wizard of Oz ( 1902 ) The Woggle - Bug ( 1905 ) The Tik - Tok Man of Oz ( 1913 ) The Wizard of Oz ( 1942 ) The Wiz ( 1974 ) The Marvelous Land of Oz ( 1981 ) The Wizard of Oz ( 1987 ) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( 2000 ) The Wizard of Oz ( 2011 ) The Woodsman ( 2012 ) Television Tales of the Wizard of Oz ( 1961 ) Off to See the Wizard ( 1967 ) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( 1986 ) The Wizard of Oz ( 1990 ) The Oz Kids ( 1996 ) Lost in Oz ( 2002 ) Once Upon a Time ( since 2011 ) The Wiz Live ! 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Question: what did the cowardly lion want in the wizard of oz
Answer: courage