Character

Zorro

Zorro is a fictional character created in 1919 by American pulp writer Johnston McCulley, appearing in works set in the Pueblo de Los Ángeles in Alta California. He is typically portrayed as a dashing masked vigilante who defends commoners and indigenous peoples against corrupt and tyrannical officials in the early 19th century, when California is under the rule of Spain or alternatively Mexico. Zorro is the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega, a young Californio nobleman.