fifty novels,numerous screenplays for film and television, and the creator ofthe character Zorro. Many of his novels and stories were writtenunder the pseudonyms Harrison Strong, Raley Brien, George Drayne,Monica Morton, Rowena Raley, Frederic Phelps, Walter Pierson, andJohn Mack Stone, among others. McCulley started as a policereporter for The Police Gazette and served as an Army publicaffairs officer during World War I. An amateur history buff, hewent on to a career in pulp fiction and screenplays, often using aSouthern California backdrop for his stories. Aside from Zorro,McCulley created many other pulp characters, including Black Star,The Mongoose, and Thubway Tham. Many of McCulley's characterstheGreen Ghost, the Thunderbolt, and the Crimson Clownwereinspirations for the masked heroes that have appeared in popularculture from McCulley's time to the present day. Some of McCulley'stales are available from Wildside Press. Pulp Adventures Inc. haspublished two oversized trade paperback volumes reprinting many ofthe original Zorro stories. McCulley is entombed in Glendale'sForest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.