Tag: Johnston McCulley

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 19:40 UTC

  The myth of the Mexican caballero defender of the downtrodden turns 100

  

  Aug 9, 1919, US writer Johnston McCulley released a story titled The Curse Of Capistrano in a Californian pulp magazine – in it was a masked and caped character named Zorro. In conceiving the sword-wielding defender of the downtrodden, McCulley set the stage for a whole century of superheroes.