The talking fish attached to a humanoid body that appears in Netflix Inc.’s “The Umbrella Academy” was actually created 25 years ago by a Texas comic book writer, a copyright suit filed Monday alleges.

Kevin Atkinson alleges that there’s a “significant, substantial and striking similarity” between his comic book villain “Kingfish” and The Umbrella Academy’s “A.J. Carmichael.” Both are “fish with long, flowing fins” that sit “inside a glass, bell-jar-shaped container atop a humanoid body with a speaker near the front base.”

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