Batman: Ego, Batman: The Gauntlet, Nightwing: Year One, Batman: The Killing Joke, and Oracle: Year One to join DC’s Signal Award-nominated, ongoing, weekly podcast series adapting essential Batman comic book stories
Burbank, CA, (October 11, 2025) – DC and Realm announced twelve more thrilling DC High Volume: Batman chapters right on the heels of Batman: Dark Victory during the fan favorite Jim Lee & Friends panel at New York Comic Con. Troy Baker, who has voiced Batman in animated movies like Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons and more,joined the panel to announce that he’s been cast as The Joker in DC High Volume: Batman’s adaptation of Batman: The Killing Joke.
DC High Volume: Batman is DC’s cinematic audio experience where voice actors bring Gotham City’s Super Heroes and Super-Villains to life, directly adapting classic Batman comic books, in a gripping podcast series which launched earlier this year with the four-part adaptation of Batman: Year One, by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli.
Following Batman: Dark Victory, new episodes will continue to drop every Wednesday starting with Batman: Ego (a two-part event) with chapter 1 releasing on October 29th and chapter 2 on November 5th. But it won’t end there. DC will be launching into even more thrilling adaptations of fan-favorite Batman comics on DC High Volume: Batman, includingBatman: The Gauntlet, the story of Dick Grayson’s first mission as Robin on November 12th, Nightwing: Year One as a six-part event which sees Dick Grayson donning a new uniform and gaining a new heroic identity beginning on November 19th, Batman: The Killing Joke as a two-part event with chapter 1 releasing on New Year’s Eve on December 31st and chapter 2 on January 7th and Oracle: Year One from Batman: Chronicles #5, a story that has never been adapted before, out on January 14th. This story picks up the pieces from The Killing Joke and sees Barbara Gordon transform into the world-class hacker and information broker known as Oracle.
Joining the cast of DC High Volume: Batman are Will Friedle (Boy Meets World, Batman Beyond) as Nightwing/Dick Grayson in Nightwing: Year One, Troy Baker (The Last of Us, BioShock Infinite, Batman: Arkham Shadow) as The Joker in Batman: The Killing Joke, Shelby Young (American Horror Story) as Batgirl/Barbara Gordon, Chester Rushing (Stranger Things) as Superman/Clark Kent, Stephanie Koenig (English Teacher) as Lois Lane, along with the vocal talents of Holland Roden (Teen Wolf), Danny Nucci (Titanic), Eric Lange (Narcos), Keith Szarabajka (Halo 4), Stephanie Sheh (Sailor Moon), and Richard Epcar (Mortal Kombat).
Alongside the new cast members, DC High Volume: Batman will continue to feature Jason Spisak (Young Justice, Arcane) as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Jay Paulson (Mad Men, Catch-22) as Commissioner James Gordon, Reba Buhr (Next Gen) as Catwoman/Seline Kyle, Adam O’Byrne (AMC’s Interview with the Vampire) as Harvey Dent/Two-Face, Simon Vance (Bring Up the Bodies, Rod: The Autobiography of Rod Stewart) as Alfred Pennyworth, Dan Gill (Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension) as The Joker, Jesse Burch (Fall Out: New Vegas) as The Riddler, and Kevin Smith (Clerks, Dogma) as The Penguin.
Fans can follow and listen to DC High Volume: Batman for free anywhere podcasts are available (Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.) or watch on the official DC YouTube channel. Join the DC Official Discord Server for weekly listening parties!
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