Summer Gleeson

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Summer Gleeson is a character on Batman: The Animated Series voiced by Mari Devon.

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Gleeson is a reporter and talk-show host for "Gotham Live", a news channel. She is often seen on the show in cameos, reporting on crimes as exposition for the audience. She has been taken hostage a few times by criminals, but usually by accident.

When Batman: The Animated Series was revamped as The New Batman Adventures, Summer Gleeson was mostly absent. Instead Jack Ryder was used as Gotham's exposition-speaking reporter, mostly to set up for his eventual transformation into The Creeper.

Summer (with a different-sounding voice) made small appearances in "Mad Love", and Batman Beyond's Lost Soul. She also made a cameo appearance at Bruce Wayne's wedding in the episode "Chemistry", along with other characters who had not appeared since Batman: The Animated Series such as Leslie Thompkins, Zatanna, and Kirk and Francine Langstrom. Summer later made several more speechless cameo appearances in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. She was last seen in the huge crowd scene addressed by Superman in the ending of the episode "Divided We Fall".

She looks vaguely like Vicki Vale, as she also has red hair and works as a reporter (though Vale was a photojournalist).