Stan Lee, the comic book legend who co-created such enduring superheroes as Spider-Man and the X-Men, shared plans this week for his latest creation: an Indian superhero named Chakra.

Lee s POW! Entertainment has joined forces with the Cartoon Network (TWX) and Graphic India—a comic book and animation company based in Bangalore—to produce Chakra: The Invincible, a 66-minute, made-for-TV movie that will premiere at the end of November on India s Cartoon Network (available in just 34 million households, a small fraction of the country s 1.27 billion population). The story follows Raju Rai, a boy living in Mumbai who is given a magical body suit that activates his yogic chakras and gives him superpowers. In a statement, Lee promised that the  thrill-a-minute superhero saga  will  captivate audiences in India and around the world with his adventures. 

I is not the world s first superhero from the subcontinent. India has its own comic and superhero culture, with dozens of beloved characters, such as Parmanu, Super Commando Dhruva and Nagraj, who is so popular that he is been called the Superman of India. Whats different about Chakra is that he s the first original superhero from India marketed to a global audience: Americans can watch Chakra: The Invincible in 2014, when the movie premieres on ToonsTV, a new online channel from Rovio Entertainment, creator of the Angry Birds franchise.