Abstract
The characters and imagery of Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories have frequently been appropriated by creators of popular culture, emerging in rock music, films, TV, and comic strips. This chapter specifically looks at how they have been utilized in DC Comics’ Batman stories, and particularly looks at the ways in which the character of the Mad Hatter has been utilized, not just in the Batman comic books themselves, but also in TV adaptations of the adventures of this superhero. Principally, this chapter explores how the Hatter is used to articulate a notion of madness that does not aim to truly represent a psychiatric or psychological condition, but a literary or poetic madness that serves as a narrative function.
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