Sorry for the late update. I was very busy last week, and it has been so ungodly hot that I literally couldn’t think at times. Digger World Headquarters is unfortunately not air conditioned.

Continuing our look back at properties that inspired some of today’s comic book heroes, we look at the first film appearance of Zorro, The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks. The film was made by Fairbanks’s own company and was the first film released by United Artists, the distributor/independent studio formed by Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith.