The Crimson Clown's Threat - art by John A. Coughlin (1931)

Vintage Pulp - Thrilling Detective (Feb1934)

Better Publications

First appearing in The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley in 1919 in All-Story Weekly.

He would return in 1922, again in the magazine now called Argosy All-Story Weekly in the

Further Adventures of Zoro by McCulley

Wait.....Zoro, you mean the guy from One Piece?

The King of the Pulps All-Story misspelled it?

Or they dropped the second "R" so it would fit on the page?

Just make it small enough to put Zorro on the cover!

Zorro

(Handmade Soft Toy Fox inspired by the character created by Johnston McCulley and beautifully portrayed by Duncan Regehr in the 1990 television series Zorro)

~ Happy Birthday Duncan Regehr ~

The Mask of Zorro (1998)

My rating: 5/10

Fan made poster

Review - Zorro - 1ª Temporada

Recentemente estreou no #PrimeVideo uma nova série: #Zorro. A produção traz de volta o herói justiceiro para as telas. Nesta versão, Miguel Bernardeau assume o papel do protagonista. Confira!

Recentemente estreou no Prime Video uma nova série: Zorro. Baseada na história do personagem criado em 1919 por Johnston McCulley, a produção traz de volta o herói justiceiro para as telas. Nesta versão, Miguel Bernardeau (Elite) assume o papel do protagonista. Na história, Diego de la Vega (Bernardeau) volta à Califórnia para vingar o assassinato de seu pai. Após ser eleito como o Zorro, começa…

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The Sign of Zorro (1960)

The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley (1919)

I knew Don Diego Vega was Zorro

No. 2of4 - I seldom see posts on writing and publishing so want to point out that this, also, is a form of art.

From by Bookshelf #4 and 5: Johnston McCulley's "The Mark of Zorro" and Isabel Allende's "Zorro"

I suppose every guy had a cyber hero he liked watching on T.V. like Superman, Wolverine, or Batman. My brother was personally inspired by Bugs Bunny, which explains a lot. For me, it was Guy Williams as Zorro on the late-night Disney channel. I’m willing to bet half my retirement that I was one of the few people who still watched it in its dying days. First introduced in the 1950’s, the Disney…

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Zorro 

(Handmade Soft Toy Fox inspired by Johnston McCulley’s character and beautifully portrayed by Guy Williams in Disney’s television series Zorro)

~ Happy Birthday Guy Williams ~

Johnston McCulley

With modern media full of colourful heroes and villains one name remains forgotten, hidden under the piles of work he inspired. Johnston McCulley was the writer who opened the door for what was to come, and one of his creations Zorro would not only inspire a character who would become a legend in his own right but would also remain a popular charter for over a century! McCulley was born in…

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Zorro’s whumps’ list

(referred to main character Zorro / Diego de la Vega, portrayed by Miguel Bernardeau; *bonus: Enrique Monasterio, portrayed by Emiliano Zurita.]

Season 1

.01: brief scuffle and under swordpoint during a training session, received upsetting news about his father's death and tears in his eyes, grief, shot at and unpleasant confrontation, nightmare and rough awakening, upsetting news and conflicted, fought against multiple armed soldiers twice, rough sword fight, zorroed himself on his chest.

.02: red fresh Z sign on his chest from previous episode, into a hostage situation during a robbery and under gunpoint, pistol-whipped at his neck, under gunpoint, scuffle and almost shot, worried and defeated, conflicted, brief scuffles and sword fight.

.03: harsh confrontation and sort of shot at, various scuffles, gun pointed at his head, disappointed, lured into a trap and under gunpoint, under gunfire and captured, hands tied above his head and identity exposed, upsetting news and almost shot in the face.

.04: hands tied above his head from previous episode, stabbed and heavily breathing, collapsed and dragged by his arms, laying unable to move and heavily breathing, moaning, falling from the horse, taken care of, feverish, upset but unable to leave the bed, shirt stained with blood after an effort and fainted, helped laying on the bed and wound exposed and bleeding, moaning helped getting undressed, Z scar on his chest, pale, wound taken care of, hand pushed against the wound and groaning in pain, under arrow point, into a duel with swords.

.05: upset, blade at his throat twice, Z scar on his chest, brief scuffle against two armed men, under gunfire and brief scuffles, under gunpoint, disappointed.

.06: ackward conversation and uneasy, Z scar on his chest, upset, brief scuffle, under gunpoint, under gunpoint and chloroformed, passed out and kidnapped, slapped in the face and helped getting up, pointed the gun at his own head and pressed the trigger without consequences, chloroformed again and grabbed when collapsed, upset; *bonus Enrique Monasterio: shot with an arrow at his shoulder, bloody and taken care of.

.07: blackmailed, rough scuffle and pushed to the ground, blade at his throat and heavily panting, upset and heartbroken, difficult conversation and conflicted, annoyed.

.08: brief scuffle, threatened and upset, bitten, angry and argued, rough fight and stabbed, upset and crying.

.09: unpleasant conversation and identity exposed, massaging his injured leg, under gunpoint, sword fight, grieving his father and tears on his cheeks, upset and conflicted, indignant, stabbed in flank and shot at, fallen from the horse semi-unconscious and taken care of, groaning and heavily breathing, grunting in pain and passed out.

.10: holding his flank because of the injury from previous episode, received upsetting news and agitated, moaning during physical effort, harsh confrontation (on purpose), intense sword duel, harsh confrontation (for fake), under gunpoint, rough sword fight and cut at his thigh, stabbed in the back and collapsed on his knees, almost killed, grunting in pain while getting up, pale and sweating, upset, silently crying on his father's grave, rejected, emotional goodbye; *bonus Enrique Monasterio: intense sword duel, stabbed and collapsed (dead for fake), shot at then swordfights.

In the original book "The Mark of Zorro" (1919) by Johnston McCulley: brief scuffle, various chases, rejected, brief scuffle, fought and chased, sword duel without consequences, surrounded and rescued.

Many of the characters in this game wear fluttering costumes, but Johnny is the only one who wears a long coat. Johnny's motif is Zorro [from The Mark of Zorro], and the only way to capture the image of his cape is with a coat draped over his upper body, so that's what he wears. I believe that the charm of a coat is when it flutters and when it’s pulled up or rolled up, so I really wanted to get a shot of that. As a result, I think it was a bit stiff. I should have drawn the background as well.

Illustration for Arcadia Extra’s Guilty Gear XX The Midnight Carnival Burst Encyclopedia. Scan and caption from Artworks of Guilty Gear X 2000-2007 by Daisuke Ishiwatari.

Zorro is a fictional character created by American author Johnston McCulley. He is typically portrayed as a dashing masked vigilante who defends the commoners and indigenous peoples of California against corrupt and tyrannical officials and other villains. His signature all-black costume includes a cape, a hat known as a sombrero cordobés, and a mask covering the upper half of his face.  via Wikipedia. 

Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, and Robert McKim in The Mark of Zorro (Fred Niblo, 1920)

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Noah Beery, Charles Hill Mailes, Claire McDowell, Marguerite De La Motte, Robert McKim, George Periolat, Walt Whitman, Sidney De Gray, Tote De Crow. Screenplay: Douglas Fairbanks, Eugene Miller, based on a magazine story by Johnston McCulley. Cinematography: William C. McGann, Harris Thorpe. Art direction: Edward M. Langley.

Film firsts are usually worth checking out, and The Mark of Zorro is a double first: It's the first appearance of the title character on screen, and it's the first of the genre of films for which Douglas Fairbanks remains best-known, the swashbuckler. Since Fairbanks and co-scenarist Eugene Miller adapted Johnston McCulley's 1919 magazine story, "The Curse of Capistrano," the masked hero has been played by Tyrone Power, Guy Williams (in the Disney TV series), Frank Langella, George Hamilton (in a spoof featuring Zorro's gay twin brother), Alain Delon, and (as the aging Zorro and his hand-picked successor) Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas, and appeared in numerous Mexican and European films. The trope of the do-gooder who pretends to be a wimp but turns into a force for justice has its precursor in the Baroness Orczy's play and novel The Scarlet Pimpernel and lives on in countless superhero tales, most notably the Clark Kent/Superman story. As the languid fop Don Diego Vega, Fairbanks affects a weary slouch and spends his time doing tricks that involve a handkerchief. When he turns into Zorro, with mask and scarf over his head, he pastes on a little mustache oddly reminiscent of Boris Badenov, and succeeds in taking on the villains with great élan. The film itself begins slowly, with too much exposition crammed into the intertitles, but eventually Fairbanks gets his act together, and the climax of the movie is a hilarious showpiece for his acrobatic moves. He leads the Capistrano constabulary on a merry chase over walls and across rooftops, inevitably tempting them into disaster: He leaps over a pigsty, for example, whereupon the pursuers fall into it. At the end, revealing his secret identity, he wins the hand of Lolita Pulido (Marguerite De La Motte), by saving her family's estate from the clutches of the evil governor (George Periolat) and his henchmen, Capitán Juan Ramon (Robert McKim) and Sgt. Pedro Gonzales (Noah Beery), both of whom get branded with the emblematic Z (though the sergeant gets his only in the seat of his pants). Good fun, once it gets going.