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>>9019414
That's not a hyphen. When you see that in Japanese it means to accent the one that comes before it. It's why Yatterman's title sounds like nonsense: Technically the name is Yattaman (like, "yatta, hooray!"), but it's ヤッターマン, so they want that second a to be emphasized. Since Yattaaman looks awkward, translation goes with "er" because it accomplishes the same effect.

On a similar, in a later show in the same series, the character named ビマージョ is officially translated as Bimajo rather than Bimarjo because translation is weird that way.