Is the Fantomas character in the public domain?

Question: Is the Fantomas character in the public domain!?

I wanted to know if the French arch-villain character Fantomas is within the public domain!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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They should be, they date back to the first two or three decades of the 20th Century it seems: http://www!.fantomas-lives!.com/Www@QuestionHome@Com