Ho yeah it was. We even had a french comedian playing a character in Bioman.
Dorothée.
Bioman was really big in the 80s.
We still have Bernard Minet the french opening singer in conventions.

Space Sheriff Shaider was super popular in the Philippines.

Janperson was big in Brazil.

Still though it's hard to imagine a part of the world that doesn't know Ultraman, considering that I live in in Asia and Ultraman is the Superman of Asia.

Shaider, huh? I thought it was KR Black since anyone I know who remotely likes Toku only mention Black.

Black too. But they didn't go on to show Black RX so if you were a child then, you were in for a cliffhanger.

The top 3 toku back then was Bioman, Shaider and KR Black. After that, they mostly showed Sentai after (Maskman, Fiveman, Jetman etc). Gavan was shown years after Shaider and Sharivan wasn't even on TV.

Everyone in Phillipines knows Kuya Robert is their idol.

Hey Sangal ^^
The fact that you live in Asia might explain why Ultraman is so "big" to you.
I mean, we have our heroes in Europe too, but I think that none of you might know them as they are not on the same scale as the super heroes from american comic books and heroes from Tokus...

I mean, if someone from Asia told me that they don't know who is Lucky Luke, Asterix or even Tintin, I would find that totally normal.

That makes total sense! Out of those I only know Tintin.

Even if Ultraman wasn't super popular here, I can't help but laugh at the people saying stuff like "you know ultraman but not way big!?" Like...umm...yes? Why would anybody who isn't a fan of Ben 10 know that character?

Anyways, the comic looks pretty awesome but I kind of hate collecting comics. Oh well.