Zorro #15 (Ongoing)

(originally called Señor Zorro) is a fictional character created in 1919 by pulp writer Johnston McCulley. He has been featured in several books, films, television series, and other media. Zorro (Spanish for fox) is the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega (originally Don Diego Vega), a nobleman and master swordsman living in the Spanish colonial era of California. The character has undergone changes through the years, but the typical image of him is a black-clad masked outlaw who defends the people of the land against tyrannical officials and other villains. Not only is he much too cunning and foxlike for the bumbling authorities to catch, but he delights in publicly humiliating those same foes. Older than Superman, more dashing than the Lone Ranger, and at times more popular than either of them, the 19th century Californian crimefighter Zorro has carved his place as one of pop culture's most enduring characters like a "Z" on the cheek of a corrupt politician. And while the majority of the masked hero's output appears on the silver screen, Zorro's roots lie, like so many masked heroes, in pulp novels, and his adventures see expansive additions made in comics and books. The latest sequential serial to feature the swashbuckling sensation comes monthly from Dynamite Entertainment with legendary "Grendel" creator Matt Wagner at the helm as both writer and art director. According to Wagner, the Dynamite take on Zorro draws influence from all of the hero's past incarnations from pulp scribe Johnston McCulley's 1919 story "The Curse of Capistrano" to acclaimed novelist Isabel Allende's 2005 reinvention of the character in the novel "Zorro." Dynamite Entertainment first published Zorro in February, 2008 and the title is now among its many ongoing series.

Artist Francesco Francavilla returns to the pages of Zorro! Under the skillful hand of Eisner nominated writer and cover artist Matt Wagner, Dynamite's Zorro series continues with issue #15 and the beginning of our third story arc. This time, El Zorro faces a band of merciless pirates and the line continues to blur between the masked avenger and his alter-ego Diego! Covers by Wagner and Francavilla! Story by: Matt Wagner; Art by: Francesco Francavilla; Letters by: Simon Bowland; Cover by: Matt Wagner --

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