She's Mod!
She's Boss!
What makes Bunny "The Queen Of The In-Crowd!"?
Would you believe we're going to spend the rest of the weekend on this topic?
Of course, as with everything in the in-crowd, it really all comes down to a matter of style. Bunny actually had it. While there were a ton of similar teen books on the market, the creators of Bunny (Hy Eisman on the art side, writer - ? Hy?) seemed to be having groovy fun. One style touch was inaugurated quite early on.You may recall having seen this cover here last week:
Groovy cover, but Bunny didn't stop there. The covers owned the first page of the comic, too:
Similarly, you may recall this splash page from another post last week:
Here's the cover that owned that page:
Issue one was typical of most comics, but as of the second issue, this was the Bunny Style:
Frequently with pun filled lyrics (and, yes - Bunny met The Beagles in that issue), every issue essentially opened with a party.
Yeah, those cover lyrics get pretty cringe-worthy from today's perspective, but it was a matter of awareness, not intent. Early steps. (no dance pun intended.)
As i mentioned, they started this trend on the second issue.
But other Bunny Style hallmarks began in the first. One might even be tempted to trace the originating trend of not one, but two!, superheroes in Bunny's book to the appearance of a certain British super-spy (whose name rhymes with Double-Oh 'leven) in the first issue.
Oh, yeah - we'll be going there.
pages and covers by Hy Eisman from the issues indicated on the covers of Bunny (1966-1969)
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