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Issue: Four Color #497
Publication Date: September 1953
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Issues: #497 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: The Sword of Zorro
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 1953
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 3 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose 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.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
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The Sword of Zorro

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (painting)
Inker(s): ? (painting)
Colorist(s): ? (painting)
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, western
Character(s): Zorro [Don Diego Vega]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagZorro - The Complete Dell Pre-Code Comics Adventures #[nn] published December 2014
as Four Color #497 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Lunge and Parry

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: Description of the basics of dueling with the rapier and detailed information on the two fencing moves: the lunge and the parry.
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In Content Item: FlagZorro - The Complete Dell Pre-Code Comics Adventures #[nn] published December 2014
as Lunge and Parry [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose 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).
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The Sword of Zorro

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, western
Character(s): Zorro [Don Diego Vega]; Bernardo; Don Alejandro Vega; Senor Barrazo; Pedro (servant at Barrazo Ranch, death); Panchita Conchola; Don Vincente Conchola; Governor of California; The Night Riders [Colonel Marianas (death); others are un-named Troop Cavalry members] (villains); Carla Montoya (villain); Don Nicholas Ferrelo (villain, Lt. Governor); Manuel Chico (villain)
Synopsis: The Night Riders are raiding ranches, looting them of anything of value, then burning what's left. The militia always seems to arrive too late. As a result, 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagZorro - The Complete Dell Pre-Code Comics Adventures #[nn] published December 2014
as The Sword of Zorro [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 34
Job Number: #497-539
Disclose 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 (2007-5-14).

Zorro carves his "Z" with his sword on the foreheads of those who deserve it.

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