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| Art for inside front cover by Bill Ely |
Don Diego Vega, secretly the masked man known as Zorro, battles oppression of the middle and working-class citizens of Los Angeles while romancing (as the dashing Zorro), Lolita, the beautiful daughter of caballero Don Carlos!
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| Art for inside back cover by Bill Ely |
Meanwhile, Sgt Gonzales is in search of the man known as El Zorro (The Fox)...
To be concluded, tomorrow, at Western Comics Adventures™, where the previous chapter also appeared!
This book-length tale in Dell's Four Color #228 (1949) was adapted from the novella "Curse of Capistrano" by Johnston McCulley.
(The title "Mark of Zorro" was first used for the 1920 silent film adapting "Curse" and starring Douglas Fairbanks as Zorro/Don Diego.
Since then, when the story is reprinted, the story tends to use the "Mark of Zorro" title instead of "Curse".)
The
writer of the comic adaptation is unknown, but the artist is Bill Ely,
who has several hundred comic stories covering every genre from 1937 to 1967 to his credit.
This entry is part of our Retroblogs™ Masks Marathon, celebrating the new Dynamite comic series Masks which combines, for the first time, the major masked mystery men of pulps and comics including The Green Hornet, The Shadow, The Spider, Zorro, The Black Terror, The Green Lama, and Miss Fury (ok, a masked mystery woman), among others.
We'll be presenting more never-reprinted stories featuring these characters throughout the month of December.
