Cartoon from late 1960's - who's the superhero?

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I don't think we have a sub-forum for this kind of question but I'm trying to find out the name of the cartoon hero from the 1960's. It was futuristic/science fiction. The hero was a skeletal looking figure with a cape and he carried a stick or rod that had a ball on the end of it. That's as much as I can remember.
 
Thanks for the suggestions so far, but checked "He-Man" on google and that's a 1980's cartoon.
 
Did this guy ride a pale horse? No wait, that guy was in a book I read :wink:

Seriously, was this a TV cartoon or a comic book character?
 
It was a cartoon on Australian TV in late 1960's and the character I'm trying to identify was one of many on the show and he was the hero not the villan. It was an outer space theme. It could have been an American or Japanese production. Gigantor and Prince Planet were also on about the same time. I'm having a debate with some of the lads I work with about the show and no one can remember the name of it for us to check on some facts to settle some arguments. You know you're getting old - or batty - when 40 year old cartoons are the subject of arguments.
 
Thanks for your efforts everyone, but the mystery has now been solved by an outside source.

The character is "Phantoma" - a 1960's Japanese cartoon (in English).

Apparently it never made it to television in the USA. The cartoon was known as "Fantomas" in Brazil, "Fantasmagorico" in Latin America (why didn't all our Latino members pick it up???), "Fantaman" in Italy (where's Italian Guy when you need him?), and "Ogon Batto" in its home country of Japan.

http://home.alphalink.com.au/~roglen/phantoma.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantomahttp://www.internationalhero.co.uk/o/ogonbat.htm
 
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