Yet Another Random Ridiculous Realization:

Sandman Mystery Theatre is a very fun read. I love it and can't wait for more (even if I don't much like the thought of this Kieran Marshall fellow taking over out of nowhere, but I'm tetchy).

But what I find really kind of neat is how at some point during the comic, Dian ends up dubbed with the name Sandy as the Sandman's sidekick.

Now, whether SMT actually fits in the DCU is shaky. For instance, there were a lot of things that basically made the existance of Sandy Hawkins impossible but I'd like to think it does anyway and will think of very convoluted ways around the impossibilities. (Long lost siblings! Teenage Pregnancies! Alien Clone! Temporary Amnesia!)

One of the reasons for this is because I really do love SMT a lot. The other reason is that if I stop and think about it, I can think of a good number of female heroes who follow in the footsteps of male heroes (there's a good list here), but I can't really think of any of the reverse.

Is it because heroines in the 40s were fewer and farther between, and more of them had specifically gendered identites? Because a woman following in a man's footsteps is progressive but a man following in a woman's is somehow undesirable or not masculine? Is it because most female heroes don't have the weight of legacy that their male counterparts do? I couldn't begin to guess. (But someday I'd really like to see a male Black Canary opposite a female Green Arrow).

But anyway, if SMT is part of DCU canon, then in the late 1930s, the Sandman's sidekick "Sandy" was Dian Belmont. Which makes the 1940s Golden Boy a legacy character, following in his aunt's footsteps.

Which makes for one female-to-male legacy, the only one *I* can think of the DCU. And for some strange reason, I think that's really neat!