The Golden Bat
The Golden Bat (Japanese: 黄金 バット, Hepburn: Ōgon Batto or simply just Ōgon Bat; known as Fantoma in the English version of the anime), is a Japanese superhero created by Suzuki Ichiro and Takeo Nagamatsu in the autumn of 1930 who originally debuted in a kamishibai (paper theater). Golden Bat is considered by some to be not only the world's first modern-day superhero, but the first in Japanese media.