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Leo Saint-Clair, alias the Nyctalope, was created in 1911 by Jean de La Hire, one of France's most prolific writer of adventure serials.
Gifted with night vision, hypnotic powers, extraordinary senses and an artificial heart, Saint-Clair is a fearless adventurer who battles with a gallery of colorful super-villains, such as Oxus, Lucifer, Leonid Zattan, Titania, Belzebuth and Gorillard.
His adventures, which spanned 30 years (1911-1946), created a template that was later adopted by such pulp heroes as Doc Savage (1933), before providing the core mythology of American comic books.
In The Nyctalope vs Lucifer (1921), his second appearance and possibly his greatest battle, the Nyctalope faces Baron Glô von Warteck, a.k.a. Lucifer, Lord of Castle Shwarzrock in the Black Forest, whose tremendous hypnotic powers, amplified by his diabolical "teledynamo," threatens to enslave the world.
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