Alan Rapp

Zorro – The Chosen One / Inheritance

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Zorro - The Chosen One / Inheritance

Filmed in the Spanish Canary Islands, the new Zorro offers a reinterpretation of his character opening with the deaths of both Zorro and Alejandro De La Vega in the opening scenes. Our Zorro is a Native American warrior, the latest to pick up the mantle bestowed on them after being chosen. Both men fall to the corruption of California under the thumb of an unscrupulous Governor (Rodolfo Sancho). After this we meet the clever Diego de la Vega (Miguel Bernardeau) who leaves his schooling and training in Spain after learning of his father’s death to assume control of his lands and learn the truth about his murder (which has been blamed on the now dead Zorro).

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Superman #123

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Superman #123

Superman Sunday takes us back to the Silver Age and the first appearance of Super-Girl (but not the one who you might expect). “The Girl of Steel” is the first of three stories in the comic. Although the look of Super-Girl would be used for later variations of the character, this version is not Kal-El‘s cousin from Krypton. Instead the character sprung to life from Jimmy Olsen making a magic wish on an ancient artifact Superman guilted an archeologist into giving his best friend. Oh, the Silver Age.

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Zorro – Presenting Señor Zorro

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Zorro - Presenting Señor Zorro

As Amazon Prime debuts a new Zorro series, Flashback Friday takes a look back at Walt Disney’s classic series of the late 1950s featuring the adventures of Zorro fighting injustice in the early 19th Century. After three years abroad Don Diego de la Vega (Guy Williams) returns to California from Spain along with his mute man-servant Bernardo (Gene Sheldon). On the ship back, Diego learns the trouble arising in his home comes from the ruthless Commandante Capitán Monastario (Britt Lomond) and chooses to not return as the worldly adventurer and swordfighter but instead a boorish aristocrat who could not possibly be seen as a threat. Don Alejandro de la Vega (George J. Lewis) is disheartened by his son’s disinterest in local troubles, but Diego keeps up the charade for everyone he meets choosing instead to take action later that night while wearing a mask.

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