Zorro Zorro Zorro (Spanish for "Fox") is a fictional character created in 1919 by American pulp writer Johnston McCulley, and appearing in works set in the Pueblo of Los Angeles during the era of Spanish California (1769–1821). 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 sombrero cordobés, and a mask covering the upper half of his face. In the stories, Zorro has a high bounty on his head, but is too skilled
Zorro However, Fairbanks's sequel, "Don Q, Son of Zorro" (1925), was more based on the 1919 novel "Don Q's Love Story" by the mother-son duo Kate Prichard and Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard than "The Further Adventures". Thus McCulley received no credit on the film. At first, production of new Zorro stories proceeded at irregular intervals: the third novel, "Zorro Rides Again" (not to be confused with the 1937 theatrical serial) was published in 1931, nine years after the second one. Then, between 1932 and 1941, McCulley wrote four short stories and two serialized novels. Zorro stories were published much more frequently between 1944