8 Man (8マン) or Eightman (エイトマン Eitoman) is a manga and anime superhero created in 1963 by science fiction writer Kazumasa Hirai and manga artist Jiro Kuwata. He is considered Japan’s earliest cyborg superhero predating even Kamen Rider (the same year Shotaro Ishinomori created Cyborg 009) and was supposedly the inspiration for RoboCop.The manga was published in Weekly Shōnen Magazine and ran from 1963 to 1966.
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