Doing It Bunny Style

Oops. Still keyed up and distracted around here, and forgot the little story that was to accompany the previous post on fashion.

See, another nice indicator of how odd Bunny could be at times - the clothes could star in their own story.
No, really...

Nothing quite like fashion, Bunny style.
Oh, yeah - fashion for superheroes was covered, too -

So far we've talked about things and characters around Bunny Ball herself. So a big question remains, "What does Bunny DO?"

As Queen Of The In-Crowd!, mostly Bunny just  - IS, being naturally that which she is. This leaves others, like Esmeralda, to try while Bunny just does. You've seen that structure before, and it's not to hard to guess what she does for money - she let's others take pictures of her being her.

 This, of course, gives in-story reason for Bunny to go anywhere and do whatever feels groovy that month. It's easy to rationalize whatever one pleases when the plot is dealing with insane creative genius types.
Let's follow along on that Zooples story and see what a day with Bunny can be like...

Don't ya dig those ginchy text panels? Like the first one on this page:

The were a standard in Bunny, part of the style.
Of course, it wasn't all just Bunny. She also had some groovy friends, like fellow model, Marcy ...

...along with her own Archie...

No matter how different they may be, it seems Archies have similar goals, eh?
50 years later, some other things still seem familiar, too -

A context note for younger readers - Back in the 60's Dial was creating the market for deodorant soap using a marketing campaign with the slogan "Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everyone did?"

pages from Bunny #s 4, 6, 8, 11, & 12 (1968, 1969)

Bunny Style - Fashion

One of the expected features in female led teen comics was the reader fashion pages with clothing styles designed by the readers. (At least, allegedly so. Where do they get those submissions for the first issues?)

Bunny was no different in that regard, though perhaps the presentation was a bit better than some others:

 Way back in the second issue, however, Bunny was already establishing her own style there, too.
Everybody had fashion clothing designs - Bunny had vehicles, too. That second issue had three of them to set the trend:

In the 3rd issue, O.O. Heaven actually did show up, just not in a story -

(Actually, he showed up at least one more time in issue #10)

 The fashion pages continued to feature groovy cars for our cast...

...and a wide variety of other vehicles, including bicycles, boats, rockets, surfboards, planes, etc.,...

...and even a plane for Fruit Man...

When you're Queen Of The In-Crowd!, one must get around in style.

pages from Bunny #s 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, & 11 (1967-1969)

Bunny Ball's Super Boys

As noted last time, O.O. Heaven appeared in issues 1, 2, & 4 of Bunny.
So what happened in the gap with no super-spy hero running around? We get not a fumbling rookie spy, but our first full-on superhero - Fruitman!

Y'know...  This guy -

Okay - maybe you don't remember Percival Pineapple. Let's get a closer look, eh?

 Fruitman stuck around as a regular feature in Bunny, and a couple issues later he was joined by a second superhero in the book - Sooper Hippie, by Howie Post, who joined the line-up immediately after O.O. Heaven departed. This tale comes from a half dozen issues later, his 3rd appearance:

Heroes for the Groovy Age.

art by Hy Eisman and Howie Post from Bunny #s 3 & 11 (1967, 1969)