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3 unusual facts about Johnston McCulley


Johnston McCulley

An additional story (possibly a story originally written for West which went unpublished when West folded) appeared in Max Brand's Western Magazine in the May 1954 issue.

The Crimson Clown is Delton Prouse, a wealthy young bachelor, able veteran of The Great War, explorer, and all around adventurer who functions as a modern Robin Hood, stealing from the unjustly rich and returning money to helpless victims or worthy organizations.

William Lamport

In the late twentieth century it was suggested by an historian that Lamport was the inspiration for Johnston McCulley's fictional hero "Zorro".


Chillicothe, Illinois

Johnston McCulley, pulp author: created the Zorro stories upon which all later Zorro movies and books were based


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