Defining "superhero" and why Fantomah isn't quite one

Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Number 1847: “Crime doesn’t seem to pay.”reprints a Fantomah story. She's been called the first superheroine, and while she's among the characters I'd like to write someday, I don't count her as a superhero. She's like the Spectre, a supernatural being whose powers are so great that her stories tend to boil down to "Baddie does badness, then main character