This August (2019), the trendsetter crusader, Zorro hit his hundred year mark. Though the mainstream media may evade this significant event, it demands celebration.
Created by pulp writer, Johnston McCulley, Zorro, which translates as "Fox", was sophisticate Don Diego de la Vega, who donned a prissy persona to deflect his disguised, swashbuckling deeds.
Throughout the decades, Zorro has avenged the persecuted through novels, short stories, motion pictures, chapter plays, comics and television shows, leaving his indelible "Z" on generations of fans and no doubt many more to come. (Zorro has even inspired several resourceful, female counterparts, who hold their zesty own with their influential mentor, thus reinforcing his adventurous legacy.)
Zorro was a significant forerunner to the Cisco Kid and the Lone Ranger. Along with the Shadow, he was a major inspiration for Batman.
Without Zorro, the world would be nowhere near as exciting, and others of his kind would be nowhere near as grand. Zorro set the whiplashing, sword-swiping standard.
Long live Zorro! Here's to a hundred, marvelous years and to a hundredfold more...
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