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Zorro (Spanish: [ˈsoro] or [ˈθoro], Spanish for "fox") is a fictional character created in 1919 by American pulp writer Johnston McCulley, appearing in works set in the Pueblo of Los Angeles in Alta California. [1] He is typically portrayed as a dashing masked vigilante who defends the commoners and Indigenous peoples of California against ...
For most of its run, Zorro's episodes were part of continuing story arcs, each about thirteen episodes long.It had a structure similar to a serial.The first of these chronicles the emergence of Zorro / Diego to California in 1820, having returned from studying in Spain at the behest of his father, Don Alejandro, to help depose the greedy and cruel local Comandante, Captain Enrique Sánchez ...
In 1997, Walt Disney Home Video released the theatrical film The Sign of Zorro, in which portions of the first 13 TV episodes were edited into a feature film, on VHS. [ 1 ] Walt Disney Home Video also released six volumes of episodes from the second season on VHS, each volume comprising a complete story arc:
Zorro (Spanish: El Zorro: comienza la leyenda) is a 2005 novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende. Its subject is the American pulp hero Diego de la Vega, better known as El Zorro (The Fox). He first appeared as a character in Johnston McCulley's novella The Curse of Capistrano (1919). His character and adventures have also been adapted for an ...
Aside from Zorro, McCulley created many other pulp characters, including Black Star, The Spider, The Mongoose, and Thubway Tham. Many of McCulley's characters—The Green Ghost, The Thunderbolt, and The Crimson Clown—were inspirations for the masked heroes that have appeared in popular culture from McCulley's time to the present day.
Zorro is a Spanish action-adventure television series produced by Secuoya Studio and starring Miguel Bernardeau. [1] Based on the character created by Johnston McCulley , the series debuted on Prime Video on January 19, 2024 in Latin America and the United States, and debuted on January 25 in Spain, Andorra and Portugal. [ 2 ]
Original air date. 1. "To Catch a Fox". September 20, 1997. (1997-09-20) Zorro is caught in the middle when he must prevent the corrupt Montecero from using pilfered blasting powder, while Isabella sets out to learn the masked vigilante's true identity. 2. "Sting of the Serpent God". September 27, 1997.
Box office. over $500,000 [1] The Mark of Zorro. The Mark of Zorro is a 1920 American silent Western romance film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Noah Beery. This genre-defining swashbuckler adventure was the first movie version of The Mark of Zorro. Based on the 1919 story The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley, which introduced the ...