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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published March-May 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Entire issue is reprinted as Zorro (Gold Key, 1966 series) #4 (November 1966).

Cover Details

Characters Guy Williams (as Zorro, photo)
Genre period
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Zorro (Gold Key, 1966 series) #4 (November 1966)

1 page Zorro foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The Masqueraders of Los Gatos Canyon"

Characters Guy Williams (as Zorro, photo)
Synopsis Preview of the first story in the issue.
Genre period
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Four photos from the "Zorro" TV series with typeset text beneath them.
Reprinted in Zorro (Gold Key, 1966 series) #4 (November 1966)

14 page Zorro story "Masqueraders of Los Gatos Canyon"

Characters Zorro; Don Diego; Bernardo; Sgt. Garcia; Tornado (horse)
Synopsis A gang of bandits, whose members are all disguised as Zorro, robs stage coaches. The real Zorro has to defeat the bandits to save his reputation.
Genre Period
Pencils Warren Tufts
Inks Warren Tufts
Reprinted in Zorro (Gold Key, 1966 series) #4 (November 1966)

4 page story "The Bandidos"

Synopsis An old man uses his trained burros to overcome a gang of bandits who have overrun his small village.
Genre western
Pencils Alex Toth
Inks Alex Toth
Reprinted in Zorro (Gold Key, 1966 series) #4 (November 1966)

1 page text story "Sailor's Brand"

Characters Silas Markam
Synopsis Retired sailor Silas Markham tries to establish a cattle ranch on the Salinas River, but the Moras brothers think it will be easy to steal Markham's cattle because he does not brand them.
Genre Western
Colors ? (Western Publishing Production Shop)
Letters typeset
Notes text story with 1/4 page illustration.
Reprinted in Zorro (Gold Key, 1966 series) #4 (November 1966); in Walt Disney Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1968 series) #39 (February 1973)

12 page Zorro story "The Welcomed Intruder"

Characters Zorro; Don Diego; Sgt. Garcia; Tornado (horse]; Bernardo
Synopsis Zorro saves rebel Enrique from a firing squad and hides him in a cave. With help from Bernardo, he creates a diversion for Sgt. Garcia and his men which allows Enrique to escape to a safer area.
Genre period
Pencils Warren Tufts
Inks Warren Tufts
Reprinted in Zorro (Gold Key, 1966 series) #4 (November 1966)

1 page filler "Smog is Not New"

Synopsis Facts about the first incidences of smog in Los Angeles, caused when Indians set brush fires to flush out rabbits for food.
Genre fact; western
Letters typeset
Notes Panels with text underneath.
Reprinted in Zorro (Gold Key, 1966 series) #4 (November 1966)

1 page filler "Land Granted"

Synopsis Description of the establishment of boundaries for ranches in the days of Zorro.
Genre fact; western
Pencils Warren Tufts
Inks Warren Tufts
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with text underneath.
Reprinted in Zorro (Gold Key, 1966 series) #4 (November 1966)

1 page Zorro story "Brave Garcia"

Characters Zorro; Sgt. Garcia
Genre period
Pencils Warren Tufts
Inks Warren Tufts
Notes Back cover; color. This sequence is replaced by an ad in some issues. See sequence 9.
Reprinted in Zorro (Gold Key, 1966 series) #4

1 page American Geographical Society advertisement Imagine "Touring" England for only 10ยข

Letters typeset
Notes back cover. Ad for "guidebook album" to England for introductory price of 10 cents as part of "Around the World Program" from the National Geographical Society, Garden City, N.Y. This sequence replaces sequence 8 in some issues.