...Or Was It The Man From U.N.C.L.E.?

Despite the impression we were given in the first issue, O.O. Heaven did return in the second issue of Bunny, and once again in issue #4 before someone finally said "Knock it off!" and he disappeared, presumably undercover or perhaps rotting in a 3rd world prison, awaiting the seemingly inevitable dark & gritty reboot.

Or maybe he just got fired.

art by Hy Eisman for Bunny #s 2 & 4, (1967)

Bunny Meets Bond

We mentioned last time that Bunny had superheroes and cavorted with super-spies. It should be noted, however, that she was fully capable of handling things on her own...

 ...but, when Sean Connery comes strolling into your comic perhaps it's best to let him handle things? Such was the case when both were just starting out, back in Bunny #1.

As it turned out, things just weren't meant to be...

Ah, well...

art by Hy Eisman from Bunny #1 (1966)

Hoppin' On The Bunny Train

She's Hip! 
                  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)

Artists Gotta Art

Just a quickie with the Queen Of The In-Crowd looking at the heart of Art -

Just because it's fun, the splash page from this issue:

groovy art by Hy Eisman and Sol Brodsky for Bunny #6 (1968)

Living In The Groovy Age

It's hard to imagine what life was like back at the peak of the counterculture revolution.
Fortunately, dedicated professionals Warren Harvey and Hy Eisman recorded the experience for us 50 years ago this month...

Just like being there!

Our slice of the groovy life comes to us from March, 1968, in issue #4 of Bunny -

Yeah, man - Harvey & Eisman were some groovy cats.

Yvoorg Nam from Bunny #4 (1968)