Fumio Hisamatsu was a Japanese manga artist, character designer, and animator born in Nagoya on April 24, 1943. He passed away on April 16, 2021, at the age of 77. Hisamatsu wanted to become a manga artist from the third grade and began creating manga while in junior high school. He made his professional debut at the age of 15 with the manga volume Chikyū Abunashi, also known as Earth Crisis. Early in his career, he worked as an assistant to Osamu Tezuka, the legendary figure often called the God of Manga.

Hisamatsu is recognized as the original creator of the anime Bōken Gabotenjima, also known as Adventure on Gaboten Island. Beyond this creation, he was deeply involved in the adaptation of television series into manga form, frequently collaborating with the studio TCJ during the 1960s. His work on the anime Super Jetter is particularly notable; he not only created the manga adaptation but also served as the anime's character designer. Similarly, he provided the character designs for the Bōken Gabotenjima anime. Other anime series for which he drew manga adaptations and contributed character designs or key animation include Shōnen Ninja Kaze no Fujimaru and Mirai Kara Shōnen Super Jetter.

A significant portion of Hisamatsu's prolific career was dedicated to creating manga adaptations of popular tokusatsu properties. He produced manga versions of numerous Ultraman series, including Ultra Seven, Return of Ultraman, and Ultraman Ace. He also adapted classic monster films such as Mothra vs. Godzilla and Gorath into manga form. In the 1970s, he continued this work with adaptations of series like UFO Warrior Dipolon and Yatterman.

Beyond his work on television and film adaptations, Hisamatsu developed a specialty in historical and educational manga. He was the first manga creator to adapt Japan's ancient mythological text, the Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters), into a complete manga series titled Manga de Yomu Kojiki. He also worked on multiple volumes of the educational series Gakushū Manga Nihon no Rekishi (Learning Manga Japanese History) and created manga biographies of historical figures like Zen Master Dōgen.

Hisamatsu's career reflects the close relationship between television and manga in post-war Japan. His ability to translate popular animated and live-action series into engaging manga, combined with his original creations and pioneering work in historical manga, cemented his role as a significant contributor to Japanese popular culture from the late 1950s through the 1970s and beyond.