Dick Grayson and Junior Tracy: Parallel Wives??

[Philip Portelli]

I'm not as quick as I used to be but it just hit me that Junior Tracy, a boy of rather humble origins, gets adopted by the heroic lawman Dick Tracy, becomes his sidekick, follows in his footsteps and ends up marrying an alien princess, Moon Maid, who has super powers. They have a daughter together, Honeymoon Tracy.

Then we have Dick Grayson, a boy of rather humble origins, becoming the ward of the costumed detective Bruce Wayne, invents the teen costumed hero genre, follows in his footsteps and gets involved with (and in some alternate worlds, marries) an alien princess, Starfire, who has super powers. In Kingdom Come, they have a daughter, Nightfire.

Homage or Co-incidence? You decide!

[Ron M.]

If they ever kill off Starfire and have Dick Grayson marry Betty Kane then we'll know for sure.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

The similarities don't begin there. The first, IIRC, was Broadway Bates/The Penguin. In the '60s, Gould's Haf-and-Haf was a copy of Two-Face. Max Alan Collins wrote an essay about the similarities circa Batman #400 or so.

As the Joe Staton Dick Tracy would have it, Broadway Bates' brother is named "Oswald."

[Ron M.]

There was also the Blank, who was hideously disfigured like Two-Face. He used cheesecloth to make himself faceless, which might have been where Steve Ditko got the idea for the Question. The series recently had a storyline similar to the Gwen Stacy Clone story when scientists turned a woman into a copy of Moon Maid.