The Fantômas novels are what brought the idea of masked men to the fight between good and evil. This phenomenon at the start of the 20th century is responsible for masked heroes and villains we eventually saw, like Batman. Here is where it all started. In this fourth installment, Fantômas now appears as the representative in Paris of a foreign government whose real business is to obtain important military secrets for Germany. Translated from "L'agent secret" (The secret agent), 1911.