The full title of the first edition read Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, Billina the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People Too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein.

Exploring the land, Dorothy and Billina are menaced by a tribe of brightly dressed "Wheelers", who have wheels instead of hands and feet.

They also find a clockwork man named Tik-Tok (one of the first intelligent humanoid automata in literature), who joins them.

Ozma, the Tin Woodman, the twenty-seven soldiers of the Royal Army of Oz, Tik-Tok, and the Scarecrow all suffer this bizarre fate.

[4] L. Frank Baum revisited this story for the plot of his 1913 musical The Tik-Tok Man of Oz, starring James C. Morton and Fred Woodward.

A theatrical adaptation called Ozma of Oz: A Tale of Time, written by Susan Zeder with music by Richard Gray, premiered at the Poncho Theatre in Seattle, Washington, in 1979.

In the second half of the film, Dorothy, Billina, Tik-Tok, Jack Pumpkinhead, and the Gump travel to the Nome King's mountain, to rescue the Scarecrow from the King's ornament collection, his item form being emerald green, unlike the book's royal purple.

The book was also made into a Canadian animated feature film in 1987 called Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz.