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Issue: Four Color #538
Publication Date: March 1954
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Issues: #538 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: The Mask of Zorro
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 3 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "THE MASK OF ZORRO, No. 538." Code number is ZORRO O.S. #538-543. Copyright 1954 BY Johnston McCulley.
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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.
Disclose Images2
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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The Mask of Zorro

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (painting)
Inker(s): ? (painting)
Colorist(s): ? (painting)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, western
Character(s): Zorro [Don Diego Vega]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAventura #9 published September 1954
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagZorro - The Complete Dell Pre-Code Comics Adventures #[nn] published December 2014
as Four Color #538 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Zorro's Pistol

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, informational, non-fiction
Character(s): Zorro [Don Diego Vega]
First Line: Flintlock pistols are regarded by most swordsmen as rather clumsy weapons.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAventura #9 published September 1954
as El Zorro y sus Armas Históricas [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagZorro - The Complete Dell Pre-Code Comics Adventures #[nn] published December 2014
as Zorro's Pistol [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover, in black and white, with two illustrations and typeset text.

Facts about Zorro's flintlock pistols.

Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (2007-5-14).
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The Mask 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; Pablo (fur trapper, death); Governor of California; Panchita Conchola; Don Vincente Conchola; Captain Rakov; Captain Borda; Don Sondoval (villain, fur trader, death); Baron Vasilenko (villain, Commander of foreign forces in Alaska); Olga (villain, reforms); Colonel Argenta (villain)
First Line: Like old California - - - Zorro finds himself surrounded by deadly enemies who seek to destroy liberty by ripping aside the mask of Zorro.
Synopsis: Don Sandoval uses attacks on his fur traders as a part of a plot to give Russia an excuse to declare war on Alta California.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAventura #9 published September 1954
as La Máscara del Zorro [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagZorro - The Complete Dell Pre-Code Comics Adventures #[nn] published December 2014
as The Mask of Zorro [Story on Interior Page(s)]minus 2 pages
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 34
Job Number: O.S. #538-543
Disclose Notes: Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color.

Oddity: the foreign trappers and traders are obviously Russians, but are never referred to as such, being called "strangers" and "foreigners," instead. It appears that the references to Russians were changed after the issue was lettered. However, names such as "Vasilenko" and "Radov" were not changed.

Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (2007-5-14).

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