“Coincidentally at around the time the bars let out, Commissioner Gordon would call to let me know the Joker or the Riddler or the Penguin … was on the loose!” Bates recalled. College students found her among the 50,000 listings in the school directory. Her maiden name didn’t draw much attention in childhood, she said, because she had known most of her Woodridge classmates since kindergarten.īut that changed when she went to Ohio State in the 1980s.
Unlike his brother, Edward Batman had an unlisted number for “the obvious reason,” daughter Lisa Batman Bates said.
“My aunt, if she answered, would just tell them he was out saving the world.” “If he could, he kept the kids on the line and joked with them,” she said. Sue Reynolds said her uncle never minded the calls. If Akron had a Prank Call Hall of Fame, its first inductee would be Kenneth Batman on Robin Lane.Ĭhildren delighted in calling him in the 1970s after finding his name in the phone book. Here are the confessions of former pranksters as well as the recollections of those on the receiving end. In the era before caller ID, it was a rite of passage for mischievous youths to dial random people for juvenile laughs. We asked Beacon Journal readers to share memories of their favorite prank calls from yesteryear.
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