Fantômas is a fictional character created by French writers Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre.
The cover illustration for the first volume of Fantômas, anonymous artist, 1911. A "classic image of the Parisian oneirology", according to the French poet Robert Desnos.
A poster for the third Fantômas serial by Louis Feuillade. Fantômas wears his iconic black hood and black leotard, more sinister features than the traditional gentleman thief's domino mask and tuxedo.
A poster for the first Fantômas serial by Louis Feuillade. In the original illustration for the first Fantômas book cover, the character holds a bloody dagger in his free hand. It was also used for the DVD box cover, but this time Fantômas stamps over a photo of modern-day Paris.
Jean Marais as Fantômas in the 1964 film
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, also promoted as LXG, is a 2003 steampunk/dieselpunk superhero film based on some of the characters in the first volume of the comic book series of the same name
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…In the story "Fantômville" by Nick Campbell, in the book Wildthyme in Purple, Fantomas meets the time traveller Iris Wildthyme. In the film adaptation of Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the Fantom (a character resembling the title character from The Phantom of the…
Theatrical release poster