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And now, of course, the birthday cards for toons, comic book characters and similar.

The first guy getting celebrated this month is a fictional character created in 1919 by New York–based pulp writer Johnston McCulley. The character has been featured in numerous books, films, television series, and other media.

His name being Spanish for "Fox", he is the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega, a nobleman and master living in the Spanish colonial era ofCalifornia. The character has undergone changes through the years, but the typical image of him is a dashing black-clad masked outlaw who defends the people of the land against tyrannical officials and other villains. Not only is he much too cunning and foxlike for the bumbling authorities to catch, but he delights in publicly humiliating those same foes, specially by marking a Z on them.

The character debuted in McCulley's 1919 story "The Curse of Capistrano", serialized in five parts in the pulp magazine All-Story Weekly. At the denouement, the hero's true identity is revealed to all. However, due to the character's popularity and his later incurring in movies thanks to Douglas Fairbanks, McCulley wrote 60 more stories, ignoring the public revelation in the first story.
A very well known hero, the guy later became a major influence for many heroes to come, with the whole secret identity, headquarters hidden under his house, a loyal servant/squire assisting him in both heroics and daily life, a dark image, a trademark transportation, a very signature symbol… ring any Bat-Bell?

Happy birthday… or, better, 'Feliz Cumpleaños', to one of the very first superheroes. One that is always remembered despite how long ago he was created, because when daggers are pointed at innocent hearts, and muskets are ready to fire, when tyrants ride high and govern with fear as the forces of evil conspire…then from out of the night a hero must rise, with courage that even a mask won't disguise; one who's larger than life and defender of all: he's this man who the people acclaim… he's the one who strikes back for the poor and oppressed.

A hero . . . who celebrates his Birthday.

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And now, of course, the birthday cards for toons, comic book characters and similar.

The first guy getting celebrated this month is a fictional character created in 1919 by New York–based pulp writer Johnston McCulley. The character has been featured in numerous books, films, television series, and other media.

His name being Spanish for "Fox", he is the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega, a nobleman and master living in the Spanish colonial era ofCalifornia. The character has undergone changes through the years, but the typical image of him is a dashing black-clad masked outlaw who defends the people of the land against tyrannical officials and other villains. Not only is he much too cunning and foxlike for the bumbling authorities to catch, but he delights in publicly humiliating those same foes, specially by marking a Z on them.

The character debuted in McCulley's 1919 story "The Curse of Capistrano", serialized in five parts in the pulp magazine All-Story Weekly. At the denouement, the hero's true identity is revealed to all. However, due to the character's popularity and his later incurring in movies thanks to Douglas Fairbanks, McCulley wrote 60 more stories, ignoring the public revelation in the first story.
A very well known hero, the guy later became a major influence for many heroes to come, with the whole secret identity, headquarters hidden under his house, a loyal servant/squire assisting him in both heroics and daily life, a dark image, a trademark transportation, a very signature symbol… ring any Bat-Bell?

Happy birthday… or, better, 'Feliz Cumpleaños', to one of the very first superheroes. One that is always remembered despite how long ago he was created, because when daggers are pointed at innocent hearts, and muskets are ready to fire, when tyrants ride high and govern with fear as the forces of evil conspire…then from out of the night a hero must rise, with courage that even a mask won't disguise; one who's larger than life and defender of all: he's this man who the people acclaim… he's the one who strikes back for the poor and oppressed.

A hero . . . who celebrates his Birthday.