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Fantomex bitten?

topical b

14:39 / 11.07.03

****from an interview on the pulse with humberto ramos*****

THE PULSE: What are some comics you liked from your country that we might not be familiar with?

RAMOS: There was this one call FANTOMAS about a guy who always wore a white mask (like the Chameleon) and this guy was a high class thief, and he is always surround by his personal guard and 12 hot looking girls each named after a Zodiac sign

how long before fantomex gets an entourage?

diz

14:48 / 11.07.03

this isn't really a new light. the Fantomas/Fantomex connection has been well known for a while.

here is a good source online for more Fantomas-related info.

topical b

15:08 / 11.07.03

oh.

ok.

diz

15:40 / 11.07.03

sorry. didn't mean to crap in your Fanta...

ciarconn

17:29 / 11.07.03

The original Fantomas was french, and wore a black, full mask (much like cobra commander), the white masked Fantomas is a mexican adaptation (which I used to read when I was a kid). It's interesting that Fantomex is based on the mexican version, not the french one, considering that Grant is european.
However, I DO remember the twelve babes who helped him. To be honest, I assumed that Jean Grey would somehow end up with Fantomex, as one of his girls.

The Return Of Rothkoid

00:54 / 12.07.03

I thought the original Fantomas just wore an eye-mask - isn't the full-mask black-clad dude the Italian comic version? Or am I huffin' crack?

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

10:30 / 12.07.03

And I'd always assumed Fantomex was based on Diabolik.

Gypsy Lantern

10:38 / 12.07.03

To confuse matters, I thought Diabolik was based on Fantomas - as the similarities can't really be ignored - and Fantomex based on the general idea of both of them. 'Which came first the Fantomas or the Diabolik' could be a zen proverb all of its own. Incidentally, the National Film Theatre in London are showing a season of french noir films this month, some of which are preceded by a few of the early Fantomas films that were made.

ciarconn

12:37 / 12.07.03

Oh, I stand corrected. Rothkoid is right, the illustration made by Magritte has only an eye-mask. Never saw the italian version, though.

The Falcon

14:35 / 12.07.03

There's also a bit of similarity to the pink-armoured Frenchy cockmaster Gambit, too. Though he may be part of the Fantomas/Diabolik lineage, I suppose.

Diabolik had a partner called Eva, eh?

Tamayyurt

16:17 / 14.07.03

Panic

16:52 / 14.07.03

Yeah, Diabolik's hot girlfriend/assistant was named Eva.

Though the mental picture of Fantomex having sex with a flying saucer in a pile of money is too much to bear....

If you squint just enough, there's a little Storm Shadow in there as well. And from something I vaguely remember reading on this fancy inter-net, GM wrote a SS backup in the UK series of GI JOE.

Gypsy Lantern

17:01 / 15.07.03

I didn't actually research this, the information just crpssed my path when I was looking for something else - but the Diabolik comics, on which the film was based, seem to date from 1962. Placing them a good few decades after Fantomas.

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