(September 1953)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- Dell Comic
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "THE SWORD OF ZORRO, No. 497". Code number is ZORRO #497-539. (No "O.S." in code number.) Copyright 1953 by Johnston McCully.
Lunge and Parry
comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Everett Raymond Kinstler
- Inks:
- Everett Raymond Kinstler
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact
- Synopsis:
- Description of the basics of fencing moves.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Two illustrations with typeset text. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
The Sword of Zorro
Zorro / comic story / 34 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Everett Raymond Kinstler
- Inks:
- Everett Raymond Kinstler
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- period
- Characters:
- Zorro [Don Diego]; Don Alejandro; Don Viciente
- Synopsis:
- Night riders are raiding ranches, looting them of anything of value, then burning what's left. The militia always seems to arrive too late. Zorro comes out of retirement to investigate the raids and finds himself in the midst of a conspiracy to overthrow the government of Alta California.
Indexer Notes
Story continues on the inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Zorro carves his "Z" with his sword on the foreheads of those who deserve it.
Editing
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Merlin Haas
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Gene Reed
- Roger A. Budnick
- John P. Selegue
- Merlin Haas
- Ken Lemons
- Chris Launder
- Jim Walls
- Terry Vraspir
- Gary Perlman
- Jerry Hillegas
- Craig Delich
- James Ludwig
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Kenneth Blair
- Mike Nielsen
- David Porta
- Matthew Torrance
- Ken Kwilinski
- Gary L. Watson
- Gregg Whitmore
- Max Capp
- Tony R. Rose
- Lou Mazzella
- Rodney Hinkle
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Donald Dale Milne
- Karl Wilcox
- Darrel McCann
- Peter Croome
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