Zorro is based on the Disney show starring Guy Williams who was also the father from Lost in Space. Very exciting pose between Zorro and his horse Tornado. I am especially happy with the way the name plate turned out.
What really strikes an Aurora collector is the number of parts which are shared between the White Stallion, Zorro and Tornado and The Lone Ranger and Silver.
Original box:
My built up
Johnny West Corner
Sam Cobra, Renegade Bad Man
San Cobra was first issued in 1972 and remained with a black body and black accessories even during the Johnny West Adventures year. The back story on Sam goes back to the James West figure which was never released. Sam had some really cool accessory items. His belt buckle held a derringer disguised as ornamentation. He had a rifle barrel disguised as a pool queue, a handcuff key hidden in his hat, a break apart derringer hidden in a pool ball. If some of this sounds familiar, you would only need to watch a couple of the early episodes of the Wild Wild West to see from where the inspiration came. The body and accessories for Sam Cobra would have originally been released as James West with the addition of the Maddox head. The head for this renegade was from the Silver Knight, a set of Marx figures which I do not collect.
The silver derringer in his belt buckle is from a later accessory issue just because I think it looks good. I have his black one in the accessory box.
My only real complaint regarding this figure is the accessories are made from a plastic which is neither hard like the previous hard accessories, which results in warped pool cues, and not actually soft vinyl, which results in most of the belts being broken next to the buckle and the carpet bag breaking. The key is the hard piece, but good condition belts are getting harder to find.
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