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Bananaman is a parody of traditional superheroes, schoolboy Eric Wimp who is transformed into a muscled, caped superhero when he eats a banana Created by Dave Donaldson, Steve Bright and John Geering, he first appeared in the weekly British kids comic Nutty in 1980, which I totally bought before transferring to The Dandy and then[...]

Bananaman Time! Very unusually, Bleeding Cool covered the launch of the European Super League or The Super League Why? So we could follow it up with this. Comedian Kai Humphries tweeted earlier today, the words; "Tottenham joining a European super league is like Bananaman getting called up as an Avenger." Bananaman was the British superhero comedy character[...]

But he still manages to bring in other comic book influences. Such as with Bananaman A comic running since the eighties, with a TV cartoon voiced by The Goodies and new movie being proposed. And in last week's issue? Miraclebanana. It transpires however that there are legal issues still to be ironed out… ANANAB! [...]