Eric was rocketed to Globe from either a Moon as the baby, & gained his powers because a lunate moon resembles a banana. He has the kryptonite-style weakness to mouldy bananas, & at one point possibly the Fortress of Solitude-style building at the Northward Pole, manufactured away from the jumbo banana.

Alternative Origins

In the 1991 Dandy Annual, Bananaman's origwithinside was changed to that of existence the normal Globe young child in the maternity hospital, world health organization found his powers when inadvertently eating the banana that the General Blight experienced hidden a purloined supply of Saturnium in, & accidentally left it next to Eric.

Bananaman ab initio faced the different pastiche supervillain each week, who were typically parody of a kinda individual-issue, uncreatively-known as villains that heroes fought in a period of the Silver Age, or even tips-of-the-hat to notable supervillians.

Enemies include:

Doctor Gloom, the Doctor Doom homage Appleman, Bananaman's arch-enemy in the early strip Weatherman Clayman A Heavily Mob, the class action of thieves led by Eddie the Gent Aunty, the nanny with remote controlled balls of knitting wool as weapons Impossible Human, complete by using the quiff who performs impossible things like hopping at 100mph Scotsman, world health organization controls haggis with a placed of bagpipes The Nerks, an alien race bent in conquering Globe, led by King Zorg Bubblegum Bert Skunk Woman, an court to Catwoman

A strip's medium-subverting elements became diluted when a strip gained within popularity, becoming additional simplistic to appeal to the supposed audience. Bananaman gained the talking crow buddy known as just Crow, & he became thus dullard he typically forgot training fly. Finally, Bananaman potentially began to attend school despite existence an adult. General Blight, a generic criminal mastermind, largely replaced a ingenious criminal-of-the-week.

Bananaman is allied by having '''Main O'Reilly''', the unimaginative Irish officer (apparently the court to Batman's James Gordon or the equally stereotyped Principal O'Hara in the 1960s Batman TV series). He utilized to put in an Indian feather headgear as a ocular wordplay on Chief. Principal works around the station house shaped rather the giant police force helmet, which oftentimes has to become rebuilt fallowing Bananaman inadvertently destroys it.

Cartoon Series
Around 1983 the BBC made a cartoon series which included a catchy theme tune & featured the voices of The Goodies. Area of the character were changed for the series - he was nowadays known as Eric Twinge, experienced the distictive bananthe-shaped coif like than cheap stubble, & experienced the love interest in the form of Fiona, a news reader according to Selina Scott. Graeme Garden voiced the characters of Bananaman, General Blight & Maurice of The Strong Mob, Bill Oddie voiced the characters of Crow, Primary O'Reilly, Doctor Gloom, Eric & a Weather forecaster, & Tim Brooke-Taylor voiced a characters of King Zorg of a Nurks, Eddie the Gent, Aunty & Appleman, likewise when narrating the episodes. It lasted for xl episodes between 3 October 1983 and 15 April 1986. A few one episodes would sooner or later re-come out inside print form inside The Great in 1998, coinciding with a BBC repeating a series in this season.