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Fantômas was the brainchild of Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre. Fantômas was created in 1911 and appeared in a total of thirty-two volumes written by the two collaborators, then a subsequent eleven volumes written by Allain alone after Souvestre's death in 1914. Allain went on to become the prolific author of well over 500 adventure, romance, detective novels and serials. His best-known achievement, however, remained the Fantômas series.
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In the books, it is established that c. 1892, the man who later became Fantômas called himself Archduke Juan North and operated in the German Principality of Heisse-Weimar. There he fathered a child, Vladimir, with an unidentified noblewoman. In circumstances unrevealed, he was arrested and sent to prison. |
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