THE MARK OF ZORRO. New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., [1951]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First Dell paperback printing. The first Zorro novel, first published as a book by Grosset & Dunlap in 1924, based on the 1920 film starring Douglas Fairbanks, the story modified from McCulley's five-part serial "The Curse of Capistrano" published in ALL-STORY WEEKLY in 1919. "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" (Wikipedia). A fine copy. Cover painting by Bob Stanley. (#175491).
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