Each month our team of dedicated writers and DC fanatics will be nominating one person to enter the DCWorld Hall of Fame Monthly Semi Final. We will be each posting an article, to put to you the people, why our nominee should go into the HOF Final in December. Here is the fourth entry into the DCWorld Hall of Fame August semi-final…
Everyone has watched an animation version of Batman. Or has played a game as Batman. Or has even heard his voice at amusement parks as Batman. There is no way around it. Kevin Conroy is the voice of Batman. Here is the crazy thing though. When he walked into his audition in the early nineties, he had no knowledge about the comics or cape crusader himself.
He was given a small synopsis by the producers of the animated series of who Batman and Bruce Wayne were. Giving him only five minutes to prepare! He says on his website, “As soon as they described the schizophrenic lifestyle, it bugged me. I thought ‘Wait a minute, he is the Bill Gates of Gotham. He is the most eligible bachelor.
Everyone knows who he is. And he puts a cape on, and no one recognizes him? Come on.”
The Julliard trained Broadway actor has been Batman since the animated series that started in 1992. According to IMBD, he has done 42 different titles (and counting) as Batman! Below is a YouTube video I found of a compilation of some of his work. (Beware: some of the video is not in the same volume.)
