brightknightie: Nick looking up. (Nick)
Amy ([personal profile] brightknightie) wrote 2022-01-08 10:34 pm (UTC)

Yes, Johnston McCully invented Zorro; that's correct!

I should not have used the word "antique." Sorry. I meant only "early twentieth century" and "not adapted."

McCully wrote many stories of Zorro, not only the novel The Curse of Capistrano (1919), which is the basis for most Zorro adaptations.

Those other stories are increasingly hard to find today.

In addition to the novel, he wrote 3 novellas -- The Further Adventures of Zorro (1922), Zorro Rides Again (1931), and The Sign of Zorro (1941) -- and 55 (!!!) assorted Zorro short stories published throughout that era (as well as other stories set in that same Old California setting but which did not star Zorro). These stories were published in cheap "pulp" magazines, and -- surprisingly to me -- not collected into books.

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