Four Color
#1003 - Walt Disney's Zorro
(June-August 1959)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1959-05-07
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Alice Nielsen Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig ? (story editor); Del Connell ? (story editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
Issue Notes
Credits based upon Alberto Becattini's "Disney Index - Dell Comic Books" Vols. 1 and 2 (Italy, 1992 and 1994). On-sale date from 1959 Books and Pamphlets, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
The Marauders of Monterey
Zorro / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Zorro [Don Diego de la Vega] (as played by Guy Williams)
- Reprints
in 
[When money-mad conspirators strike ...]
Zorro / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Reprints
-
in Walt Disney Presents Zorro (Western, 1966 series) #5 (March 1967)
-
Indexer Notes
TV show photos.
The Marauders of Monterey
Zorro / comic story / 26 pages
- Job Number
- O.S. #1003-5??
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Zorro [Don Diego de la Vega]; Bernardo; Sergeant Demetrio Lopez Garcia; Corporal Reyes; Gregorio Verdugo; Anna Maria Verdugo (Gregorio's daughter); Innkeeper; Ramon Castillo (villain); Francisco Palomares (villain); Pablo (villain, Verdugo's servant)
- Synopsis
- Diego and Bernardo arrive in Monterey to see Senor Verdugo, but are robbed of what they have the first night in town. When Diego sees Verdugo, he tells him of this and the fact the robbers knew where Diego would be and that he might be carrying 17,000 Pesos for supplies from Spain to aid the people of Los Angeles. Bernardo is later taken prisoner and the crooks blackmail Diego for the 17,000 Pesos to get Bernardo back alive. Bernardo is rescued, then Diego learns that Verdugo's servant is behind the plot to steal the Pesos.
- Reprints
-
in Walt Disney's Weekly (Disney/Holding, 1959 series) #v3#15 (April 10, 1961) -
in Mickyvision (Egmont Ehapa, 1962 series) #9/1964 (September 1964) -
in Le Journal de Mickey (Hachette, 1952 series) #698 (10 octobre 1965), #699 (17 octobre 1965), #700 (24 octobre 1965), #701 (31 octobre 1965), #702 (7 novembre 1965), #703 (14 novembre 1965), #704 (21 novembre 1965), #705 (28 novembre 1965) - in Walt Disney Presents Zorro (Western, 1966 series) #5 (March 1967)
- in Zorro (Egmont Ehapa, 1979 series) #3/1979 (Dezember 1979)
-
in Zorro (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1980 series) #4/1980 ([november] 1980) - in Zorro: The Complete Classic Adventures by Alex Toth (Eclipse, 1988 series) #2 (July 1988)
- in The Classic Alex Toth Zorro (Image, 1998 series) #2
- in Alex Toth's Zorro (Hermes Press, 2013 series) #[nn] - The Complete Dell Comics Adventures (2013)
- in Zorro Masters (American Mythology Productions, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
-
- Keywords
- El Camino Real; Guadalupe Trail; Monterey Inn
The Enchanted Bell
Zorro / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Zorro [Don Diego de la Vega]; Bernardo; Sergeant Demetrio Lopez Garcia; Sgt. Garcia's Lancers; Don Rafael Valencia; Senor Valdez (villain, tax collector, mention only)
- Synopsis
- Don Rafael and Diego muse over the fact that Valencia is losing his garden bell because the Don is behind on his taxes, and it's the tax collector himself who wants the bell for himself. It seems the bell is supposed to be a protective charm for the community and will fight any attempt to take it. Zorro concocts a clever scheme to keep the bell from being taken away.
- Reprints
- in Mickyvision (Egmont Ehapa, 1962 series) #9/1964 (September 1964)
- in Walt Disney Presents Zorro (Western, 1966 series) #5 (March 1967)
- in Walt Disney's månedshefte (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1967 series) #4/1969 ([april] 1969)
- in Walt Disney Comics Digest (Western, 1968 series) #35 (June 1972) [new layout]
- in Zorro (Egmont Ehapa, 1979 series) #4/1980 (Januar 1980)
- in Zorro: The Complete Classic Adventures by Alex Toth (Eclipse, 1988 series) #2 (July 1988)
- in The Classic Alex Toth Zorro (Image, 1998 series) #2
- in Alex Toth's Zorro (Hermes Press, 2013 series) #[nn] - The Complete Dell Comics Adventures (2013)
-
Monterey's Famous Firsts
comic story / 1 page
- Reprints
- in Walt Disney Presents Zorro (Western, 1966 series) #5 (March 1967)
-
[In the early days of Spanish California ...]
Zorro / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Reprints
- in Walt Disney Presents Zorro (Western, 1966 series) #5 (March 1967)
-
Indexer Notes
Back cover- a second version of the comic exists with an ad on the back cover, and the ad features a pin-up of Zorro.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Marauders of Monterey
Zorro -
1.
[When money-mad conspirators strike ...]
Zorro -
2.
The Marauders of Monterey
Zorro -
3.
The Enchanted Bell
Zorro -
4.
Monterey's Famous Firsts
-
5.
[In the early days of Spanish California ...]
Zorro
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Steve Coates
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Darrel McCann
- Donald Dale Milne
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Mark Q
- Tony R. Rose
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