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TIL about Ōgon Batto (黄金 バット, or "Golden Bat"), a Japanese superhero who debuted in 1931, seven years before Superman and eight years before Batman. He is a being from Atlantis who was sent 10,000 years into the present day in order to fight evil with super strength, flight, and a rapier.

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