The Curse of Capistrano is a 1919 novel by Johnston McCulley and the first work to feature the Californio character Diego Vega, the masked hero also called Zorro (zorro is the Spanish word for fox). It first appeared as a five-part magazine serial. The story was adapted into the silent film The Mark of Zorro in 1920. It appeared in book form in 1924, also using the title The Mark of Zorro
Although Johnston McCulley created the character, it was thanks to actor Douglas Fairbanks that the character gained its current form.
In the book there are no secret passages, Zorro’s uniform is different and the Z was Fairbanks’ idea and was added later by the author.
Reading this book is to understand and even discover the real origin of Zorro; a hero who marked the childhood of many people, through various versions of a man with a cape, sword and mask.
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