Film· 1920· Adventure
by Fred Niblo
The Mark of Zorro: 1 recorded work traces back to it, and it draws on 1 recorded source.
Works that record this one as a source, with the evidence a contributor gave.
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.
The works this one is recorded as drawing on.
The film adapts McCulley's serial, made the year after it appeared. McCulley's later Zorro stories were written to follow the film, which is also where the title The Mark of Zorro came from.