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1968 Italian release poster for the live-action Japanese film version of Ōgon Bat, originally starring Sonny Chiba as Dr. Yamatone. Ōgon Bat (Japanese: 黄金 バット, Hepburn: Ōgon Batto, literally Golden Bat), known as Phantaman or Fantomas in various countries outside Japan, is a Japanese superhero created by Suzuki Ichiro and Takeo Nagamatsu in autumn of 1930. Ōgon Bat is considered by some to be the world's first superhero, and is a precursor to later superhero characters such as the Japanese kamishibai character Prince of Gamma (debut early 1930s), and the American comic book characters Superman (debut 1938) and Batman (debut 1939).
The 1968 Italian version of this film was most likely re-edited by the distributors with a re-named director and Americanized names for the actors (Terence Marvin Jr., Peter Conway, Thomas Lee, Deborah Scott), used in the same period for other Japanese genre films like L'astronave fantasma/ Uchū Kaisokusen. (Wikipedia)