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Bananaman Trending On Twitter Thanks To The European Super League
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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 about a kid, Eric, who becomes a muscular, super-strong, flying superhero with a banana aesthetic, that was adapted into a popular kids TV cartoon and voiced by The Goodies. Originally created by
Steve Bright, Dave Donaldson and
John Geering, appearing in
The Dandy and
The Beano. And before you knew it, he was going viral and trending on Twitter. Replies included the following:
Pakistan Closes Social Media After Muhammad Cartoons Protests
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Pakistan has temporarily shut down all access from its citizens to Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites, on orders from the country s interior ministry, after days of violent anti-French protests by radical Islamists over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad resurfacing online.
The protests began after
Saad Rizvi, leader of the outlawed Islamist political party Tehreek-e-Labiak, was arrested for threatening protests if the Pakistan government did not expel the French ambassador. He has since urged his supporters to stand down. So far, two police officers have been killed, 580 injured, and three protesters have died.
Action Comics #1 Ashcan Sells For $204,000 At Auction
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A copy of the Action Comics #1 Ashcan recently sold for $204,000 at auction. One of only three known copies, the last one sold for $50,000 twelve years ago and the other is in the DC Comics vaults. Intriguingly, the Action Comics ashcan doesn t have any Superman in it, just pages from Detective Comics and it was only a way to secure a trademark on a comic book title for a publisher. But it does have a cover that was never used. The auction listing explains it all. And you can watch the auction, as it took place, below.
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