McCulley made an arrangement with the pulp "West Magazine" to produce a brand new Zorro short story for every issue. The first of these stories appeared in July 1944 and the last one appeared in July 1951, the final issue of the publication. Fifty-three adventures in all were published in "West". An additional story (possibly a story originally written for "West" which went unpublished when "West" folded) appeared in "Max Brand's Western Magazine" in the May 1954 issue. The final Zorro story appeared in "Short Story Magazine" in April 1959, after McCulley's death and after Walt Disney's Zorro television program starring Guy Williams had become nationally popular.