Origin[]
Don Del Oro was the villain of the 1939 serial, Zorro's Fighting Legion. He was a wannabe dictator who used the local Yatze tribe to carry out a series of preemptive strikes, leading to an attack on the local mines.
Don Del Oro - the "Golden Lord" - poses as the deity worshiped by the local Yatze tribe and orders them to carry out a series of strikes in the area, causing the local authorities to set up a Fighting Legion to oppose him.
In the process of stopping one of the attacks, the original leader of the Fighting Legion is mortally wounded and is found by Don Diego de la Vega, aka El Zorro, who then himself assumes leadership of the Fighting Legion and joins the battle against Don Del Oro. Zorro is forced to undergo a series of perils as, one by one, the local authorities are killed by Don Del Oro using golden arrows.
Eventually, he discovers that the villain is in fact Pedro, the director of the mine, who is then executed by the Yatze.
Public Domain Appearances[]
Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939)
Notes[]
- Billy Bletcher did the voice for Don-Del-Oro and C. Montague Shaw portrayed the character after he was unmasked.
- Bud Geary, a former matinee idol turned stuntman, played Don-Del-Oro while still in full costume before his unmasking.
- The copyright expired on this serial after its maker, Republic Studios, went defunct in the 1950s.
- In Brazil, comic writer Ivan Saidenberg used the character in a Zorro story based on the Disney TV series.