The Scarlet Pimpernel was, according to Stan Lee, the co-creator of Marvel Comics, the ‘world’s first superhero’. Baroness Orczy’s very successful 1920s book and play gave us the trope of ...

During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as ...