Zorro Swashbuckling News and Updates

Zorro Swashbuckling News and Updates

Saturday, September 7, 2019

Zorro The Legend Begins Full-Cast Audio Drama


American Radio Theater's Zorro The Legend Begins full-cast audio drama is now Available from Bearmanor Media. It's being called the most fun Zorro radio drama of them all. It's loaded with swashbuckling fun. Action, Adventure, Romance and comedy abound is this nearly 5 hour long show.

                                                Zorro The Legend Begins Trailer



Alta California - 1820
The Pueblo de Los Angeles is under the heel of a dictatorial Alcalde. Luis Miguel Montero is squeezing the life of out the people. No class is exempt. Peons are being beaten and thrown into prison. Indians are being forced into slave labor. And Rancheros are being taxed out of existence. Conditions are intolerable! California’s largest landowner, Don Alejandro de la Vega, has grown weary of the situation and has summoned his son Diego home from the University of Madrid to aid him in overthrowing Montero’s oppressive regime. But to his surprise, when Diego arrives, he finds his son uninterested the community’s problems and unwilling to take up arms. However, Diego's pretense of pacifism is just a ploy to protect his quick-tempered firebrand of a father from the certain destructive retribution challenging the Alcalde's rule would bring. Rather than face the King's representative in open rebellion, Diego has devised a plan to rid the pueblo of this tyrant. By day he is a man of books - interested only in painting, poetry, music and science. But at night, Diego rides as the masked hero Zorro fighting cruelty and injustice. For Zorro to end this reign of terror, he must outwit the scheming Montero and avoid being captured by Sergeant Garcia, Corporal Reyes and the rest of the pueblo’s Lancers.

Zorro: The Legend Begins is a fun action packed swashbuckling adventure dramatized from an original story and based on characters and situations created by Johnston McCulley. American Radio Theater brings to life a delightfully enjoyable tale that every Zorro fan is sure to enjoy.

https://www.amazon.com/Zorro-Legend-Begins-Audio-Theater/dp/1982678593



Zorro Actor Duncan Regehr October Art Exhibit


Duncan Regehr famous for playing Zorro in the Family Channel's Zorro TV series in the 1990s is also a world renowned artist. His art will be presented in a one man show at Petley Jones Gallery in Vancouver BC, this fall. The opening reception, with Duncan in attendance, will be held October 19th.

The exhibition, entitled “At Blinders Wall”, will incorporate art work from different series' of his works. As an added bonus, the opening event will include a reading of his prose and poetry.


A sample of Duncan's artworks and his exquiste use of colors.



American Mythology Announces Zorro Art Book for July 2019




Publisher American Mythology has announced “The Mark of Zorro: 100 Years of the Masked Avenger” in their July 2019 solicitations, an exciting new art book that will collect a century of Zorro artwork, film images, pop culture appearances, and more. See more about the book via the announcement at American Mythology Solicitations


Bold Venture Press' Rich Harvey Gives Zorro Presentation


In commemoration of Zorro's centenary, Bold Venture Press publisher Rich Harvey gave a 30-minute presentation at the annual Pulpfest (Pittsburgh, PA) on Thursday, August 15th. Zorro has accomplished much in 100 years, but Rich managed to compress a century into 30-minutes. Bold Venture Press reprinted all of Johnston McCulley's original stories in Zorro: The Complete Pulp Adventures. Thanks to Jess Terrell for filming the presentation.
https://www.boldventurepress.com/bold-venture-bulletins/a-century-of-zorro-pulpfest-2019-presentation/

ZORRO 100 Year Anniversary Trading Cards.


RRParksCARDS and American Mythology is publishing "The 100th Anniversary of Zorro" trading card series. To support this project visit their website.

The Card series includes:
- A 180 card set broken up into numerous subsets covering a visual history of Zorro from his beginnings in Argosy Magazine through the silent film era, the 1930s/1940s movies and serials, 1950s TV show and the more recent movies as well as the comic books of the 1950s on up through American Mythology's current Zorro Comic Book series. These 180 cards also feature 18 different newly created Anaglyph 3D cards by the maestro of 3D: Christian LeBlanc!

For more information and to support this project visit their kickstarter page.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2020657542/the-100th-anniversary-of-zorro-trading-cards-collection?ref=user_menu&fbclid=IwAR3Gw6ZTUJlLhn3F9IwrLtddVpjXZJYpXo9janQl-QUFD5oywCNPljnYXUU

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Johnston McCulley Zorro and More From Bold Venture

Johnston McCulley Zorro and other Pulp Stories

The 100th Birthday of ZORRO, but don't forget the other work of author Johnston McCulley. McCulley certainly created many other interesting characters like The Black Star, a criminal mastermind, and The Spider. McCulley's spider was, very much UNlike today's spidery agile super hero. McCulley's spider person was wheel-chair confined and used mental abilities to run an international crime ring. Then, of course there were colorful characters like The Crimson Clown, The Green Ghost,The Thunderbolt, and Thubway Tham. And the author turned out a number of tales with changing characters, set in Old California -- Alta California -- when it was owned by the Mexican government -- The Tales of Zorro's Old California. Watch boldventurepress.com  for reprints of more of McCulley's fine works.