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Nearly 30 years before Bob Hastings voiced Commissioner James Gordon on Batman The Animated Series, he played Superboy on The New Adventures of Superman.

I love finding bits of trivia in the credits of movies and TV shows.

Do you have any fun facts from DC movies and TV? The more trivial the better!

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DC almost sold Green Lantern’s rights to Marvel!

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Noel Neill and Jack Larsen who played Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen in the adventures of Superman are Lois Lane’s parents in Superman 78.

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They were also in Superman Returns. Noel Neill had the first dialogue of the movie and played Gertrude, the wealthy woman Lex swindled. Jack Larsen played the bartender in Metropolis.

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Neil P. McDonough actually voiced Oliver Queen in a DC animated short a few years before playing Damien Darhk.

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That same Showcase short with Green Arrow (available here as an after feature extra with Superman/Shazam: The Return of Black Adam wink) was also written by Greg Weisman, a writer of Captain Atom as well as a showrunner on Young Justice.

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Kevin Conroy has made guest appearences in all Batman related shows since Batman TAS.

2 in Batman B and B (Phantom Stranger and Batman of Zur En Arrh)

The Batman (John Grayson)

Batman vs, Robin (Thomas Wayne)

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Jack Larsen was not Lois’s dad in Superman, the Superman from the matinee serial was her dad on the train.

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Kirk Alyn :slight_smile:

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That’s it, Vroom

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Collin Salmon. Arrow’s Walter Steele. Krypton’s General Zod.