Gone & Forgotten

I bet you can see his rangey human wrists poking out from his elastic cuffs. *shudder* The Easter Bunny First appearance: Police Comics #18 Created by Frank Borth The devil's bargain. Here comes Peter Cottontail Hoppin’ down the bunny trail Hippity-Hoppity He’s attempting to assassinate a prominent  government figure With a basket full of exploding eggs That may not be how the song goes, but it’s how the story goes in Police Comics #18 (April 1943), when scantily-clad superheroine Phantom Lady faces the fiendishly fuzzy scheme of an explosives-happy ex-con in an ersatz Easter Bunny costume. The Easter Bunny – aka Bunny Rabbit, aka Bunny Man, aka “Uncle Wiggeley” [sic] - is actually aka “Killer Dan,” a vicious criminal who seeks revenge on the judge who sentenced him, and who is now Senator Ted Knight (Caddyshack, Too Close for Comfort). To this end, Killer Dan infiltrates the annual Easter Egg Hunt on the grounds of what I have to imagine is Senator Knight’s own personal mansion, ...