The 1930s saw "the first costumed and masked character launching the American super hero type"...read it many times and for the USA maybe. The rest of the world? Nope/
As I have shown on the British Golden Age and UK Golden age blogs; we had them in the UK long before 1936. One of the better known costumed anti-heroes/heroes (depending on who was writing about the character, was Spring Heeled Jack.
Spring-Heeled Jack #2, Aldine Publishing, 1904 illustrator Robert Prowse Jr. (1858–died circa 1934)
Illustration of Spring-heeled Jack, from the serial Spring-heel'd Jack: The Terror of London
Also, in the 1920s we had the illustrated story of The Iron Man and you may be surprised to hear that there were tech suit wearing heroes and villains.
The Black Whip appeared in The Ranger 45 19th December 1931. It goes on and on so next time someone mentions the Phantom point out that there were others BEFORE him.
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