The Goon Show

The Goon Show was a hugely popular and extremely influential British radio comedy programme, which was originally produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1951 to 1960 on the BBC Home Service.

The sincerest form of flattery

Although the names, catch-phrases and slang of the Goon Show came to permeate British culture, the same could not be said of the USA, so when an issue of a Marvel comic book, The Defenders issue 148http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/bannisterminerva.htm, used the character names Minerva Bannister, Harry Crun (i.e. Henry), and Hercules Gritpype-Thynne, it went completely unnoticed by American readers. The reactions of British readers, if any, were not recorded.

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Marvel comic - The Defenders

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The characters were as follows :

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• Minerva Bannister - Villainous heiress (of course!)
• Harry Crun - Private Detective, employed by Ms. Bannister, and in love with her (of course!)
• Hercules Gritpype-Thynne - Cop on their trail.