They seem to have excluded comic *strip* properties.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033317/trivia
This was the first depiction of a comic book super hero on film.    
(This refers to the 1941 Adventures of Captain Marvel serial. So, they did not consider Flash Gordon, Dick Tracy et al.)

 

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