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 remained dormant in the United States for the next twenty years until it was revived by Marvel Comics in 1990, for a 12-issue tie-in with the Duncan Regehr television series "Zorro". Many of these comics had Alex Toth covers. In 1993 Topps Comics published a 2-issue miniseries "Dracula Versus Zorro" followed by a "Zorro" series that ran 11 issues. Topps also published two miniseries of "Lady Rawhide", a spin-off from the Zorro stories created by writer Don McGregor and artist Mike Mayhew. McGregor subsequently scripted a miniseries adaptation of "The Mask of Zorro" film for Image Comics. A newspaper daily