Costume Pics: Jervis Tetch/The Mad Hatter

Here's one character who confuses people more than he should--The Mad Hatter.  Introduced first in Lewis Carroll's immortal children's classic Alice in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter was "borrowed" by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in the late 1940s for use as a villain in the Batman universe and reimagined as someone so obsessed with Lewis Carroll's work that he actually starts to think that he is the Mad Hatter.  So, while the character is indeed a character from Alice, he is also a villain in the Batman comic books.

That said, we wanted our own Mad Hatter to look like an amalgamation of Lewis Carroll's Hatter, Jim Aparo's Hatter, and the Hatter from Batman: The Animated Series.  To this end, we compiled the costume from a number of different sources, most of which were online costume shops.  The end result is presented below, with our friend Eric under the hat.

 

The Mad Hatter, circa March 2012

   

 And again on July 15, 2012