Who Is Mad Hatter? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Mad Hatter is a DC Comics comic book character, the alter ego of Jervis Tetch, with over 834 comic issue appearances. One of Batman's most recurrent enemies, Jervis Tetch (A.K.A. The Mad Hatter) is obsessed with Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, basing all of his crimes on the novel. Jervis is often depicted as a joke-villain but is a serious threat to Batman with his powerful mind-control technology.

Who is Mad Hatter?

This page is for the original Mad Hatter, Jervis Tetch For the second Mad Hatter, see Imposter Mad Hatter Origin Jervis Tetch In the beginning, Jervis Tetch did not have many social outlets except for Ella Littleton and her daughter Connie. He lived with the Littletons in a boarding house which was adjacent to Connie's junior high school. The Littletons managed to get Tetch a job at the school where he supervised school projects for Connie's computer club. By this time, Tetch was already specializing in hypnotic suggestions and hypnotherapy. When Connie went to high school, she got herself pregnant and rather than tell her mother the truth, she proclaims that she got raped by the Gotham Hawks, the high school's baseball team. Distraught by this news, Ella approaches Tetch and pleads with him to make that entire team suffer. Tetch manipulates one of the baseball players through hypnosis and instructs him to bring a bomb to the locker room where the entire baseball team would meet. This locker room massacre was a closed case but later reopened by Harvey Bullock and his team managed to put the pieces together by interrogating the Littletons and Tetch.

Key facts

Mad Hatter is of human origin and first appeared in "The Prison Doctor!". The character is published by DC Comics. With 834 recorded issue appearances, Mad Hatter ranks among the most featured characters in comics.