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| The Curse of Capistrano | |
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| Title: | The Curse of Capistrano |
| Author: | Johnston McCulley |
| Publisher: | Grosset & Dunlap |
| 1st printing: | August 9th-September 6th, 1919 |
| Page count: | 300 |
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The Curse of Capistrano is a 1919 novel by Johnston McCulley and the first work to feature the California 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. Before being published in book form, The Curse of Capistrano appeared as five serialized installments in the pulp magazine All-Story Weekly. In 1920, the story was adapted as the silent film The Mark of Zorro starring Douglas Fairbanks as the hero Don Diego Vega. The title was a reference to the hero's habit of marking enemies or surfaces with three sword cuts, forming a letter "Z."
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- The Curse of Capistrano redirects to this page.
- Zorro, also known as Don Diego de la Vega, was created by novelist Johnston McCulley. He first appeared in the serialized story The Curse of Capistrano, which was published in All-Story Magazine in 1919. The character and his exploits have since been adapted in feature films, live-action programs, animated programs, comic books and novels.