Zorro is the creation of writer Johnston McCulley, per the Independent, and appeared first in The Curse of Capistrano, a ...

In 1821 Old California, mysterious black-caped masked avenger of the oppressed, Don Diego de la Vega--Zorro--lands in jail after once again humiliating the evil Spanish governor Don Rafael Montero.

Movie"Here's the picture in which the world's ... an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

In an act to draw out the true Zorro, the imposter kidnaps Don Jose's wife, making him once again don the mask to rescue her.

Zorro's popularity spanned across various media, from movies to comics ... genre veteran could be dashing with the black mask in one scene and quite naive and unremarkable as Diego in the next.

aka Zorro, finds himself in an unavoidable predicament. Having spent almost a decade protecting his people and fighting injustice, Alejandro's wife, Elena, insists that he gives up the black mask ...