Hey All it's toon time again with Mister Kasem.........,
As everyone should know by now that very suave voice the top fella seen here in the mystery inc gang recently went to cartoon heaven a few days ago.....and I wanted to keep up on my top ten of his best and least and of course surprising vocal talents. So let's see who falls into the ninth slot shall we? Since it is in red that I'm using to pen this one in, it can only be one of two main toons characters that Casey put his longest bit of sound to..... now here is the question to really think about is it Cliff Jumper or Robin the boy Wonder
, funny is it not that in the above photo that Robin is just above Cliff Jumper. Also notice that yesterday Mark Venture character from "BATTLE OF THE PLANETS" is right next to Cliff Jumper and yes most these others seen here will in the top ten somewhere I'm sure! Today's slot happens to be for the pal of the guy who runs around Gotham city as the Dark Knight or as he was called in the cartoons with Robin, Batman. Now as I said a moment ago Robin was Casey's second longest running voice next to Shaggy Rogers......he voiced Robin as far back as nineteen sixty eight in" Batman with Robin the boy wonder", which I'm sure came right after the Adam West and Burt Ward's takes on the iconic comic book heroes. Casey was the ongoing voice of Batman,s ward till " Super Power team: Galactic Gaurdains which ran in full animated form in the year nineteen eighty five. I mostly remember Kasem's Robin from "Challenge of the Super Friends" and "The Super Friends hour", still no matter how many other teenager super heroes he was teamed with do Zander and Jana the wonder twins fall into that area as well
as Wendy and Marvin seen here
Robin without a doubt very neatly done by the coolest radio disc jockey around was the boy wonder at his best with Kasem's track voice over. So that is why Robin is the ninth best voice that I can appreciate in Casey Kasem toon history.......
To Be Continued........
Hello to all who loved Mister Kasem,
Well I'm sure that if you were hiding under a rock yesterday that you didn't hear of radio Disc Jockey and the voice of so many beloved cartoon characters that we all know and love did pass into vocal heaven. Now I won't be one to say who is right or wrong with his family war of what he wished for after he did pass on either.... but I did after hearing of his death really did think a lot about his greatest cartoon character that he voiced forever....well I'm sure we all know who that was/is? still where does
the Shag man fall on this very top ten list of characters, is it even number 1 or not? Well this is what I did decided to do in the way of this very top ten list: one, Have one of Casey's characters that I know super well (yes this includes Scooby's pal to be waited on for sure) needs to be as unknown to me Matt as they are to you the reader or at least for the most part anyway!
So where do we start then right?
Well I was thinking of something almost as old as Scooby Doo anyway and a art style I have liked as much as I do any cartoon no matter what, that of course would have to be Anime from Japan. Yes I know I might be breaking my own rule here but does the name Mark Venture ring any bells in Anime, I mean outside of the guy seen here
with his best friend and enemy Derek Wildstar, from the Anime animated series called STAR BLAZERS here in America......well from my understanding at the same time that STAR BLAZERS hit the air waves of the United States so had this Anime in certain areas, but not the same ones.....(i think?) It was called "BATTLE OF THE PLANETS". It as well had a Mark Venture character in it. Casey Kasem provided the voice for the Mark Venture character of this series seen here:
Now I will say this I know nothing of BATTLE OF THE PLANETS at all if anyone who does know of it's history it would be greatly appreciated if you would let me know your thoughts of if this Anime lover should add it to my collection of stuff to watch or should I watch it online please let me know? All the same Mister Kasem your sorely missed as any character that was just super cool!
To Be Continued..........
