In alternate futures, these two couples had stressful times ahead. Chris and Vicki were adversaries as her H-Dial corrupted her personality, along with a vicious cult, forcing him to use his H-Dial in battle with the girl he once loved. Spike and Sugar started a private investigator business together, invading metahuman matters, which often brought the pair into conflict over their different methods. But those were only a possible future, not the likely one for either.
While there was never confirmation that Sugar and Spike ever dated, their devotion to one another was quite evident. As heirs to the heroic, if goofy, Cyclone Kids and their protector the original Red Tornado, Plumm and Wilson forged their paths from getting temporary powers on into their later years.
There was amble validation that Vicki and Chris dated on and off throughout their high schools. At times, a rift would form due to Chris’ bitter rivalry and Vicki’s blind loyalty to her ex-boyfriend Brad, and later her brief romantic interest in Nick Stevens. But their H-Dials, granting them various powers and identities for an hour at a time, as well as their friendship drew them back together.
While Vicki and Chris only had approximately 51 recorded adventures which took place during the early 1980s, Sugar and Spike has far more tales chronicled in the mid-1960s. While some of these were more pedestrian in nature, their later stories dealt with gaining unusual abilities through various means. Some of these mirrored those of infant incarnations of the Earth-One Superman and Wonder Woman’s “impossible tales” as Superbaby in Smallville and Wonder Tot on Paradise Island.
The Dial H for Heroes duo attracted the attention of the Justice League on one occasion, when an opponent of theirs whom they were battling erected an unbreakable force field around their town of Fairfax. Later, Superman would meet the pair as reporter Clark Kent while investigating the various one-shot superheroes and superheroines who were appearing there, and assisted them versus their arch-enemy Robby “The Master” Reed and his artificial supervillains.
As for Sugar and Spike, they appeared inexplicably during a photo shoot of the Justice Society. A possible explanation as to why they were there was the team’s honorary member the original Red Tornado was present, and so perhaps she brought along her long time ally Scribbly. This seems logical as he was in the newspaper business and long had illustrated their adventures for his publication. Scribbly then likely brought with him his son and his two infant pals.
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