"Jack Pumpkinhead's Day in Court" is a non-canonical Oz short story written by J. L. Bell. It was published in Oz-story Magazine No. 5 in 1999, after winning the Frederick E. Otto Award for the best Oz fiction of 1998, a competition sponsored by The International Wizard of Oz Club. Bell is notably successful with the puns that are a hallmark of Oz prose and humor; his story is at some points almost a tissue of continuous punning.