Another great supervillain with a unique gimmick. Hatter is criminally underused. So much more could be done with him than has been in recent years.
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Another great supervillain with a unique gimmick. Hatter is criminally underused. So much more could be done with him than has been in recent years.
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from [B]Detective Comics #566[/B] (September 1986)
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(cover-dated March 1978)
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So what's the story on the... um... mustache desperado design?
I thought the Alice in Wonderland version is a modern iteration but that's apparently his original?
Is it an attempt to make him look more serious in the bronze age?
[QUOTE=Restingvoice;3914830]So what's the story on the... um... mustache desperado design?
I thought the Alice in Wonderland version is a modern iteration but that's apparently his original?
Is it an attempt to make him look more serious in the bronze age?[/QUOTE]Actually, if you looked on the previous page, the second version with the mustache dates back to 1956, well before the Bronze Age.
[QUOTE=MajorHoy;3906590] . . .
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from [B]Detective Comics #230[/B] (April 1956)[/QUOTE]
Oh right. So do you know the story on that decision?
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[QUOTE=Restingvoice;3915147]Oh right. So do you know the story on that decision?[/QUOTE]I wasn't born yet when that first came out, and I don't really know if there was much of a decision process for things like that back then as there is these days.
Don't know if the Disney animated [I]Alice in Wonderland[/I] (released in 1951) could have played any part in the switch or not, or maybe if it was just an artist's whim. A lot of things changed between Golden Age versions and when they may have been used again in the Silver Age. Maybe somebody thought the original version looked too silly or something.
Does anybody remember what issue it was when DC actually decided there were two different characters going by the "Mad Hatter" identity?
The Original Mad Hatter from BATMAN #49 makes his return appearance in DETECTIVE #510.
Where he explains about himself and the Fake Mad Hatter(Red Hair).
[url]http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Detective_Comics_Vol_1_510[/url]
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