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The Mark of Zorro influenced Batman
Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
The evidence
Bob Kane named Douglas Fairbanks's Zorro as a source for Batman: a rich idler who is secretly a masked avenger with a hidden lair. Later comics made the debt part of the story, with the Waynes shot on their way home from a showing of The Mark of Zorro.
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