It’s hard to beat Saw II on Halloween weekend. Still, despite some critical pans, The Legend of Zorro came in a respectable but unspectacular second in last weekend’s box office, selling some $16 ...

SEATTLE (CN) – The author of a “Zorro” musical claims in court that the character is in the public domain, but Zorro Productions and others have threatened his stage play by ...

The original caped crusader, Zorro was created by US writer Johnston McCulley and introduced in the story The Curse of Capistrano, carried in a Californian pulp magazine over five weeks starting from ...

Zorro, the fictional mask-wearing, sword-fighting champion of the oppressed in Spanish California in the early 19th century, was created for a pulp magazine in 1919. Hardly anyone had heard of him ...

The prolific McCulley went on to pen about 60 books about Zorro, which means “fox” in Spanish, but was reputed for his reluctance to say what inspired the character. He disguises himself in black with ...

“The Curse of Capistrano,” Johnston McCulley’s first Zorro story, appears in pulp magazine All-Story Weekly. A hero is born. Fred Niblo directs “The Mark of Zorro,” based on “The Curse of Capistrano” ...

The character we know as Zorro emerged from a pulp novel called The Curse of Capistrano, written by Johnston McCulley. Originally published as serialized installments, the story was collected in a ...