Zorro

Zorro is an American pulp fiction character created by writer Johnston McCulley, who introduced him in the 1919 serialized novel The Curse of Capistrano, published in the magazine All-Story Weekly. Zorro is a masked vigilante, the secret identity of the Californian nobleman Don Diego de la Vega, who defends commoners and Indigenous Californians against corrupt officials and other villains in Spanish colonial California. McCulley continued writing Zorro stories into the 1950s, and the character has since been adapted into more than forty films and ten television series, along with comics, stage productions, and video games.