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PERSONAL DATA 

REAL NAME: Don Roberto Maestro 

OCCUPATION: Adventurer, landowner, vigilante and church organist 

IDENTITY: Secret 

CLASS: Normal human 

LEGAL STATUS: Citizen of California (Mexico) 

OTHER ALIASES: Black Eagle, el Águila Negra 

PLACE OF BIRTH: Yerba Buena, California 

MARITAL STATUS: Single 

KNOWN RELATIVES: Father and brother (murdered by cossacks) 

GROUP AFFILIATIONS: Los Vigilantes 

BASE OF OPERATIONS: Yerba Buena, California 

FIRST APPEARANCE: The Vigilantes Are Coming (Republic Pictures, 1936) 

HEIGHT: 5' 9" 

WEIGHT: 170 lbs 

EYES: Brown 

HAIR: Black 

HISTORY 

Yerba Buena, California, 1844. General Jason Burr and Count Ivan Raspinoff attempt to take control of California to turn it into a Russian colony with Burr as dictator. Whoever opposes them ends up dead or a slave in the mines, extracting gold for the tyrants. Don Roberto Maestro, the son of a prosperous landowner, who was out of the country during the uprising, returns home only to find that his father and his younger brother have been murdered and their lands expropriated. With the fire of vengeance burning in his veins, Maestro becomes the masked Águila Negra, organizing local citizens into a militia, "Los Vigilantes de California" to fight the invaders and make Burr and Raspinoff pay for their crimes. Maestro impersonates the church's mannered organist, with the help of Father José, the local priest.

POWERS & WEAPONS 

El Águila Negra was well trained in hand-to-hand combat, sword fighting, whip, stealth and was an expert in horsemanship.