Matthew Price
Special to The Oklahoman
He may be more than 100 years old, but the swashbuckling Zorro is still going strong.
The latest comic-book stories featuring the character hit stores this spring, as the final issue of the crossover series “Zorro in the Land That Time Forgot” comes to a conclusion, and “Zorro: The New World” begins. Zorro is set to be part of comics’ biggest day in 2021, as “World of Zorro” #1 will be released on Free Comic Book Day, Aug. 14.
Zorro first appeared in the story “The Curse of Capistrano” in the 1919 novel by American pulp writer Johnston McCulley.
Happy Birthday MONSTER SQUAD and NIGHT OF THE CREEPS Director Fred Dekker
Happy Birthday, NIGHT OF THE CREEPS and THE MONSTER SQUAD Director Fred Dekker By Mike Sprague
On this day in horror history, writer-director
Fred Dekker was born in San Francisco in 1959. For those that don’t know, Dekker is the man behind two of the most enjoyable horror movies ever made:
Night of the Creeps and
The Monster Squad.
House,
Ricochet. Directed
RoboCop 3 from a script he co-wrote with Frank Miller. And helmed an episode of HBO’s
Tales from the Crypt (“The Thing from the Grave “).
The Monster Squad co-writer Shane Black (
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Henry Darrow
The Emmy winner also starred opposite David Janssen on Harry O and worked on three TV versions of Zorro.
Henry Darrow, the pride of Puerto Rico who starred as the charming Manolito Montoya, the son of a wealthy Mexican land baron, on the 1967-71 NBC Western
The High Chaparral, has died. He was 87.
Darrow died Sunday of natural causes at his home in Wilmington, North Carolina, his former publicist, Michael B. Druxman, announced.
The actor also played San Diego police detective Manny Quinlan alongside David Janssen in the first season of the 1974-76 ABC series
Harry O and received a Daytime Emmy in 1990 for his turn as Rafael Castillo, the father of A Martinez s character, on the NBC daytime serial
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