Tweedledum and Tweedledee Tweedledum and Tweedledee Tweedledum and Tweedledee are fictional characters in an English nursery rhyme and in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There". Their names may have originally come from an epigram written by poet John Byrom. The nursery rhyme has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19800. The names have since become synonymous in western popular culture slang for any two people who look and act in identical ways, generally in a derogatory context. Common versions of the nursery rhyme include: The words "Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee" make their first appearance in print in "one of
Donald Clough Cameron introduced Alfred as Bruce Wayne's butler. Cameron co-created Tweedledum and Tweedledee in "Detective Comics" #74 (April 1943) and the Cavalier in "Detective Comics" #81 (Nov. 1943). His story "Brothers in Crime!" in "Batman" #12 (Aug.–Sept. 1942) featured "Batman's Hall of Trophies" a precursor to the Batcave, which debuted in "Detective Comics" #83 (Jan. 1944). Cameron and Win Mortimer created Batman's Batboat in "Detective Comics" #110 (April 1946). In addition, Cameron was one of the writers of the "Batman" comic strip for the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. His work on Superman includes creating the Toyman in "Action Comics" #64 (Sept. 1943) and