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El Fantasma. El Fantasma was created by the Spanish author Pedro Victor Debrigode Dugi (Black Pirate (V), Red Colt, Victor Vital) and appeared in El Fantasma #1-4 (1944-1945).

El Fantasma is a Superhuman Costumed Avenger. El Fantasma lives on the hidden Pacific island Shadow Island. He is actually the billionaire inventor Esde Campbell. His brother was killed by a Mad Scientist, so Esde vows to wipe out all crime. Some friends give him the costume, a white veil over a black costume, whose belt-buckle, once pressed, creates a bullet-proof magnetic barrier around him. He additionally has great superstrength. His arch-enemy is the Man With No Head, a headless man in a tuxedo who aspires to CONQUER THE WORLD! with his fleet of high-tech aircraft and with his blonde Gun Moll assassin, the Siberian Vera, whose mechanical arms have blades and electrocute those they touch.

* I'm including El Fantasma in the Best of the Encyclopedia category because of the imagination and ideasplosions within each issue. As with several other entries on the Best of the Encyclopedia page, El Fantasma doesn't have heftroman-style ideasplosions. Instead, it's got an imaginative premise which is thoroughly worked out and to which are added more imagination in the form of a wonderful antagonist. El Fantasma is essentially a superhero comic book in dime novel form--not a Jack-Kirby-and-Joe-Simon comic book, but something like Richard Hughes & Dave Gabrielson's Black Terror. I mean that as a compliment, of course. 

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