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“There is no escape for Zorro this time. After a final confrontation with Captain Ramon, every avenue of escape is cut off. The governor and all his troops have trapped the masked highwayman, and now Zorro must make his final stand against an entire score of troopers.” 4.5 out of 5 http://traffic.libsyn.com/classictales/CT_225_Zorro_9of9.mp3
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Penultimate part of an audio serial. 4.5 out of 5 http://traffic.libsyn.com/classictales/CT_224_Zorro_8of9.mp3
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Part of an audio serial. 4.5 out of 5 http://traffic.libsyn.com/classictales/CT_223_Zorro_7of9.mp3
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Audio version. 4.5 out of 5 http://traffic.libsyn.com/classictales/CT_221_Zorro_5of9.mp3
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“Captain Ramon is caught executing a vicious revenge against the Pulido family. However, once Zorro has stopped this wanton cruelty, he is cornered by Sergeant Garcia’s men inside the presidio. How will he escape?” 4.5 out of 5 http://traffic.libsyn.com/classictales/CT_220_Zorro_4of9.mp3
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“The black-hearted Captain Ramon orchestrates an underhanded meeting with the lovely Lolita. Who will save the honor of the lovely senorita? Her father? Don Diego? Perhaps Senor Zorro?” 4.5 out of 5 http://traffic.libsyn.com/classictales/CT_219_Zorro_3of9.mp3
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“Don Diego Vega seeks a wife in the spirited Senorita Lolita Pulido. But the senorita is not to be won simply by the promise of wealth and position. Perhaps Senor Zorro will have better success… Johnston McCulley, on The Classic Tales Podcast.” 4.5 out of 5 http://traffic.libsyn.com/classictales/CT_218_Zorro_2of9.mp3
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“The incredibly pompous Sergeant Pedro Gonzales boasts up and down of what he will do if he ever meets with the masked highwayman known as Zorro. But when the tavern door opens and reveals a black masked stranger, Sergeant Gonzales must put his puffed up boasts to the test. Johnston McCulley, today on The Classic [...]
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Otherwise known as the Lone Ranger theme song. 4.5 out of 5
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The Curse of Capistrano – Johnston McCulleyhttp://worldebooklibrary.com/eBooks/WorldeBookLibrary.com/markzorro.htm Repression and oppressive taxation grows in one corner of California. Don Diego Viega, whose picture might just be beside the word ‘fop’ if California had a dictionary, can do nothing about it. As one of the local military says “he is about as dangerous as a lizard basking [...]
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The Curse of Capistrano – Johnston McCulleyhttp://worldebooklibrary.com/eBooks/WorldeBookLibrary.com/markzorro.htm Repression and oppressive taxation grows in one corner of California. Don Diego Viega, whose picture might just be beside the word ‘fop’ if California had a dictionary, can do nothing about it. As one of the local military says “he is about as dangerous as a lizard basking [...]
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Showing that as a cook he makes a really good masked superhero. http://i.newsarama.com/images/LR17AdvReviewOnly%2022.jpg 3 out of 5 http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia/album_view.php?gid=1302&page=6
The Camden Kid – Charlie SwiftCopperhead railroaded. 2.5 out of 5
The Faithful Companion At Forty – Karen Joy FowlerTonto, unappreciated. 4 out of 5
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The Lone Ranger In Wild Horse Canyon – Fran Strikerhttp://thelonetaxman.web.aplus.net/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/LRinwildhorsecanyon.pdf It’s all about the gold mine. When the Lone Ranger and Tonto find a young girl alone in the woods they soon determine she is in need of help. Given that some of the men causing her problems are named Tombstone, Ripper, Scar, and Mace, [...]
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Wolf Train West – William Messner LoebsA boy and his little sister head west, trying to ride the rails, struggling in the cold to catch a train. They are helped up by a strong fellow traveller, and soon find the railway police are rather more than human. Luckily their fellow traveller is not new to [...]
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Raiders of Rifle Rock – Lee E. WellsWayne Morgan stumbles across some violence being perpetrated by hirelings of King Gardner, who is keenly agitating for a range war so he can expand his holdings. The Masked Rider decides to get involved after he escapes. 2.5 out of 5
The Lash of Senorita Scorpion – Les SavageThis is easily the worst of the Senorita Scorpion stories so far, as it is told from the point of a view of a marshal that has been sent to bring in the Scorpion for the murder of a senator. Again, of course, she didn’t do it, and [...]
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The Return of Senorita Scorpion – Les SavageSenorita Scorpion has to pretty much go it alone, as the combination of an Aztec cult getting its peyote concocting hands on Chisos Owens and Johnny Hagar being framed by nogoodniks that want to run the peons off their land for the water for big cattle spreads. Elgera, [...]
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The Legend of Senorita Scorpion – Les SavageThis compilation contains the first three Senorita Scorpion adventures. It also gives some publishing history and detail on where, when and why it was written. Senorita Scorpion The Brand of Senorita Scorpion The Secret of the Santiago When George Douglas is attacked by Comanches and his mine caves [...]
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The Sting of Senorita Scorpion – Les SavageSenorita Scorpion is being tracked by a marshal, for the murder of his brother. Unable to shake him she asks for time to prove she didn’t do it. At the heart of it is a hidden source of water, and she comes across the posse of man she [...]
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The Secret of the Santiago – Les SavageThe Secret of the Santiago involves a map divided into three pieces, and the hunt to find them all. People are getting quite violent over it, so it seems it involves a lot of gold. Senorita Scorpion, and her two admirers and friends have to deal with Caballero [...]
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The Brand of Senorita Scorpion – Les SavageAnse Hawkman has hired some men to pull a fast one, by pretending to be the mining engineer she has hired to come and deal with a contract for her. Muscle comes along, and the Scorpion has to try and make a break for freedom to get help [...]
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Hopalong’s Hop – Clarence E. Mulfordhttp://www.pulpgen.com/pulp/downloads/getpdf.php?id=791 Well, excellent. I always wanted to know this, my dad couldn’t tell me, and I never got around to looking it up or asking anyone. Bill Cassidy has been asked to look over some cattle, but someone else hires him to solve a serious cattle rustling problem. The result [...]
The Drive – Clarence E. Mulfordhttp://www.pulpgen.com/pulp/downloads/getpdf.php?id=797 Hopalong decides to teach an anglophile varmint who stampedes their herd to gain an advantage for his, a rather severe lesson. 3 out of 5
Don’t Frame A Redhead – Clarence E. Mulfordhttp://www.pulpgen.com/pulp/downloads/getpdf.php?id=236 Hopalong, not having a lot of luck punting, finds his luck is better when he is busting shell game operators and dodgy dealers, instead. 3 out of 5
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Land Pirates of Wagon Gap – Walker A. Tompkinshttp://thelonetaxman.web.aplus.net/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/landpiratesofwagongap.pdf A crucial piece of land for a railroad, leads to some dodgy dealings, blowings up, murder, and a confrontation with the Masked Rider. 3 out of 5
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Land of Big Timber – Hascal Gileshttp://thelonetaxman.web.aplus.net/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/landofbigtimber.pdf The Masked Rider gets involved when a dispute between two ranchers turns ugly. One of them is most definitely not playing legally, and Wayne Morgan gets himself hired on as a temp hand to see what he can find out. 3 out of 5
Trail of the Blue Snake – Ben Gardnerhttp://thelonetaxman.web.aplus.net/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/TrailofBlueSnake.pdf This one is a bit on the dull side, and lays it on a bit thick. It is rescued a little when it appears that there is a reason for the band of outlaws and killers to have a snake tattoo. It appears their leader has some [...]
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Gun the Man Down – Hascal Gileshttp://thelonetaxman.web.aplus.net/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/GuntheManDown.pdf The Masked Rider comes to help a group of nesters who are being exploited, and soon to be more and more violently. When he helps out with investigating as Wayne Morgan he is caught near the scene of a murder, and those he is trying to help turn [...]
Guntrap Trail – Oscar Friendhttp://thelonetaxman.web.aplus.net/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/guntraptrail.pdf The town Wayne Morgan wanders into this time has a murder or two on its hands. No, this is not a big shock. A bit of questioning and snooping is required to work out there is bad feeling between past owners of a ranch, and the ornery current owner, who [...]
Senorita Scorpion – Les SavageWhen George Douglas is attacked by Comanches and his mine caves in, you have a classic hidden mine and lost property scenario. 200 years later, with the Douglas family finally having dug their way out, Senorita Scorpion starts raiding. The blonde, blue-eyed, black masked bandida has a secret it seems, and [...]
The Lone Ranger – Fran StrikerI think everyone is pretty familiar with this story. A Texas Ranger is almost fatally injured, and ends up being befriended by an Indian. Left for dead, he decides being masked would be a good idea to hide this fact, as he becomes a force for good, complete with silver [...]
