Zorro Comics # 1, 3, 6, 7 - Internet Archive · 2012. 6. 12. · Zorro DonDiegndelaVega,amanof...
Transcript of Zorro Comics # 1, 3, 6, 7 - Internet Archive · 2012. 6. 12. · Zorro DonDiegndelaVega,amanof...
,ALT DISNEY present,
SCOURGE OFMILITARY TYRANTS...GALLANT DEFENDER
OF THE POOR
Zorro
Don Diegn de la Vega, a man of
letters and a man of arms. By day —secure in his books and poetry—fearful of the sword. By night -— an
avenger, riding masked and cloaked
as ZORRO the FOX.
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This is a sort of believe-it-or-not story, and
the hombres who are sure not to believe it are
the range riders of Texas and the bronco-
busters of Wyoming. But history proves it...
the first cowboys in these United States were
the cowboys of California.
Along with Portola and Father Serra on
their march from Mexico came a handful of
vaqueros to tend the livestock. Before long,
the missions rose along the route of their
tramping feet, and the Indians came to them
to pray, to work . . . and to ride the horses
which the law prohibited them from owning.
Soon, they were not only riding, but doing
all the jobs a cowpoke does . . broncobusting,
roping, branding. Thus, the first Americans
were also the first American cowboys.
An important part of the costume of these
first cowboys was their hat . . . low-crowned,
flat-brimmed, and black in color, worn over
a kerchief tied at the back of the head. Whenthe elegant CALIFORNIOS came to the land
of the missions a few years later, bringing
with them a more gracious way of life and
the splendid dress and fancy trappings to
go with it, they adapted the low-crowned,
wide-brimmed hat to suit their more elegant
tastes.
Don Diego de la Vega was a true Cali-
fornio, but, as Zorro, he wore the black hat
and kerchief of the first vaqueros.
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Trail OLVERA STREET— a block-long bit of early California
in modern Los Angeles, Here stand old adobes which mightwell have vibrated to the clatter of Tornado's hoofs as hecarried Zorro through the black night to avenge a wrong.
The colorful AVILA ADOBE, tfuilt by oneof its first mayors, is the. oldest home in
Los Angeles and still ^htains much of theoriginal furnishings and bric-a-brac.
At the ZANJA MADRE, or mother ditch,
it wag not unusual to see humans andanimals drinking together while colorfully
dresseji senoras did the family wash.
At the gay festival of LOS FOSADGS; thechildren gather with sticks and poles to
break ,the pinata and send a shower of
sweets onto the street for all to grab.
Towering steel and concrete skyscraperssurround the thick-walled adobes now, butthe strum of guitars and the clink of casta-
nets are still part of OLVERA STREET.