Walt Disney's Zorro #6

Walt Disney's Zorro #6 was published in 1959 by Dell Comics, emerging during the peak of the television show's immense popularity on ABC. As part of the Four Color series—the longest-running comic book series in history—this issue captured the swashbuckling adventures of Don Diego de la Vega in the tradition of Johnston McCulley's original pulp hero. The comic was designed to capitalize on the success of the live-action series starring Guy Williams, mirroring the show's aesthetic to appeal to the younger audiences watching at home.

The illustrations for this period of the Dell Zorro line are often attributed to the talented artists working within the Dell-Disney partnership, known for their clean, cinematic panel layouts that mimicked the pacing of a television episode. These comics were intended to provide supplemental narratives to the weekly program, utilizing high-contrast ink work that felt both nostalgic and adventurous. While these issues were mass-produced for newsstands and dime stores, they have since become noted for their faithful adaptation of the mid-century Western genre as reimagined by Disney.