Rhapsodies

The Mad Hatter was one of the members of Batman’s Rogues Gallery I was mostly indifferent to. In my opinion, he was one of the campier B-raters from the silver age that people remembered only because he was at the end of the list. (I was surprised that he was created as far back as 1948)

I liked what they did with him in the animated series, which made him more than just a crazy man with a hat fetish, but for my purposes, the whole thing with the mind control goes a little too far into the fanciful sci-fi that I’m trying to avoid in this approach.

For the purposes of my version, I’m making him my version of the Marvel’s Tinkerer working directly under the Joker. He still has his fancies though, and enjoys a nice cup of tea while working.