In the early 1960s a Mexican publishing company, Editorial Novaro, began publishing a comic book series featuring Fantomas (spelled without the French circumflex over the "o"). Originally, these comic books were relatively straightforward adaptations of the Souvestre-Allain tales. With time and growing popularity, however, this Fantomas figure began to take on features that differed substantially from the Souvestre-Allain character: although a thief with a particular weakness for great art, he was also a bit of a Robin Hood. He opposed corruption and thievery in high places, and worked to benefit ordinary people (and himself, if a priceless work of art was involved).


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