ZORRO (Marvel Comics Pub; 1990-1991; Based on the TV Series);

 #1 (12/1990; FIRST PRINTING;

** First MARVEL Comics appearance of Don Diego de la Vega aka ZORRO cover and story;

** Appearances by; Don Alejandro De La Vega, Felipe, Victoria Escalante, Alcalde;

GCD Synopsis;

** An injured Zorro reviews his past trying to remember his civilian identity.

** Zorro in Genesis!

** After this MARVEL series, the Zorro license switches to Topps with Dracula Versus Zorro #1(1993)

Ian Rimmer story;

Mario Capaldi cover and art;

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** ZORRO the Live Action RE-BOOT TV Series, Season One of the 10 Episode Television Series, DEBUTED on Amazon Prime TV on Jan 19, 2024.

** The ZORRO TV Series stars Miguel Bernardeau as Diego de la Vega aka ZORRO;

** Zorro discovers family secrets that will change his destiny forever as he tries to free California.

** The ZORRO TV Series also stars; Renata Notni as Lolita Márquez, Rodolfo Sancho as Gobernador Pedro Victoria, Dalia Xiuhcoatl as Nah-Lin aka Fake ZORRO,  Paco Tous as Bernardo, Peter Vives as Janus Carter, Elia Galera as Lucia Marquez, Andrés Almeida as Tadeo Sánchez, Emiliano Zurita as Enrique Sánchez de Monasterio, Chacha Huang as Mei, Joel Bosqued [es] as Samuel, Francisco Reyes as Vanderveen, Mireia Mambo as Harriet Jones, Estibalitz Ruiz - Carmen de la Madrid, Ana Layevska - Irina Ivanova;

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** Don Diego de la Vega aka ZORRO by Johnston McCulley FIRST appeared in the All-Story Weekly August 1919 Pulp Magazine story: The Curse of Capistrano;

** ZORRO is one of the FIRST Costumed Heroes in Popular Fiction.

** Don Diego de la Vega aka ZORRO was a Californian (New Spain or Mexico) Nobleman and Vigilante, his Weapons included; Rapier, Bullwhip and Pistol;

** ZORRO appearing in works set in the Pueblo of Los Angeles in Alta California. He is typically portrayed as a dashing masked vigilante that 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 a sombrero cordobés, and a mask covering the upper half of his face.

** Johnston McCulley wrote more Zorro stories for about four decades: the character was featured in a total of five serialized stories and 57 short stories, the last one appearing in print posthumously in 1959, the year after his death.

** The Curse of Capistrano eventually sold more than 50 million copies, becoming one of the best-selling books of all time.

** ZORRO appears in over 40 films and in ten TV series, the most famous being the Disney production, Zorro, of 1957–1959 starring Guy Williams.

** Actors who have played ZORRO include; Douglas Fairbanks, Robert Livingston, Reed Hadley, Tyrone Power, José Suárez, Clayton Moore, Guy Williams, Frank Langella, George Hamilton, Rodolfo de Anda, Patrick James, Frank Latimore, Duncan Regehr, Anthony Hopkins, Antonio Banderas, Alain Delon,

Christian Meier, Miguel Bernardeau, Cristo Fernández;

** Other media featuring ZORRO include stories by other authors, audio/radio dramas, comic books and strips, stage productions, and video games.

** Being one of the earliest examples of a fictional masked avenger with a double identity, Zorro inspired the creation of several similar characters in pulp magazines and other media and is a precursor of the superheroes of American comic books, with Batman and the Lone Ranger drawing particularly close parallels to the character.

** The DreamWorks character Puss in Boots, an anthropomorphic cat sporting high boots, a broad-brimmed and feathered sombrero, and a rapier, was also heavily inspired by Zorro (though ultimately based on the earlier Italian fairy tale character of the same name). Portrayed by Antonio Banderas, who had also earlier played Zorro, he premiered as a character in Shrek 2 (2004) and in the later sequels, as well as inspiring spin-off films, Puss in Boots (2011) and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022).

** In November 2019, it was announced that a new series was in development by NBC with Alfredo Barrios Jr. as both writer and executive producer, with Propagate and CBS Television Studios as producers. The series will have more of a "modern day" setting. They will follow Z, a female descendant from the Zorro bloodline, as she fulfills her duty to "protect the defenseless in her community". In December 2020, Robert Rodriguez and Sofía Vergara were announced as executive producers. In January 2022, the series was moved from NBC to The CW who later ordered six scripts;  However in May 2023, the CW chose not to move forward with the series, canceling it along with several other shows that were in early development.

** In December 2021, it was announced that a new series was in development by Disney-ABC. Wilmer Valderrama will executive produce and star as Diego de la Vega in what is described as a "reimagining" of the series. Ayo Davis, president of Disney Branded Television, stated that the series is "set in Pueblo de Los Angeles, but told in a very modern telenovela style". Valderrama confirmed that the series would be on Disney+. On March 6, 2023, Bryan Cogman was announced as series showrunner;

Notes by Wikipedia;

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ZORRO: Robert Rodriguez, Sofia Vergara, NBC Eye Female-Led Modern Take - Posted on December 10, 2020; Director Robert Rodriguez (Grindhouse, Desperado) is going from the "Star Wars" universe and bringing back one legendary character to NBC and bringing back another legendary character- and her adventures are going to be in some high-profile hands. On Thursday, the network announced that Rodriguez, writer-director Rebecca Rodriguez (Snowpiercer, The Chi), Sofia Vergara's (Modern Family) LatinWe production company, and Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens' Propagate are teaming up on a contemporary take on Zorro, with the series' masked vigilante to be played by a female lead (Deadline Hollywood first reported, exclusively). Co-written by the brother/sister duo of Robert and Rebecca Rodriguez with Rebecca set to direct, Zorro centers on Sola Dominguez, an underground artist who fights for social justice as a contemporary version of the mythical Zorro. Her life is threatened by several criminal organizations after she exposes them. Robert Rodriguez and Rebecca Rodriguez executive produce with Silverman, Owens, Rodney Ferrell, Greg Lipstone, and Jay Weisleder for Propagate, Vergara and Luis Balaguer for LatinWe, Geoff Clark, Eric Bromberg, and John Gertz. CBS Studios is set to co-produce with Universal TV. The series represents Propagate's second attempt at a Zorro re-imagining with a female lead, with its first effort aimed at NBC with  Alfredo Barrios Jr. writing. Zorro is getting a reboot at NBC (Image: Zorro Productions) During a virtual panel discussion from this past summer, Rodriguez discussed what it was like having to push for representation in his projects in the past. "It had just never been done before. When you're doing anything that's new — this just happens to be about diversity, but it could be anything — when you're doing anything new, you're gonna get questioned," he explained. "And you have to have a good answer, because they're not being dicks or anything, they've just never seen it before. 'Is it gonna make the audience smaller?' People think only Latins will go see it. And it's just 'cause it had never been done before. I said, 'No, I don't think so, I mean they're only gonna speak Spanish as a kind of code when it's cool. And they are American, they're just Latin, 'cause it's based on my family.' It wasn't really convincing. I finally had to come up with a good argument," Rodriguez continued. "Finally, I said, 'OK, you don't have to be British to enjoy James Bond. By being so specific, it becomes more universal.' So, they went with it, then of course there's like four [Spy Kids films in the franchise] and now we're rebooting it. But you kind of had to put your flag in and set it in and say, 'This is how it's gonna be done' to make any change, 'cause there was no roles being written for Latins at that time, back in 1999, nor were they being cast."

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