This comes after the credit in Batman #238, so it's pretty obviously a recognition of Dick Sprang, the longtime (1943-1963) artist on Batman.
But then what do we make of this panel from Marvel, circa 1969:
Either of these would be early easter eggs, certainly. One is completely explicable; the other is completely out of the clear blue sky.
So I'm going to assume that the name Dick Sprang was well-known to comics aficionados before his first original credit, and that this actually, and surprisingly to me, is his first official Easter Egg Credit. I was blown away by the Detective #441 Easter Egg, and then I happened to be reading the Iron Man story for yesterday's post and blinked when I saw the sound effect there.
Update: I just realized the common element that seals the deal. Guess who wrote both stories? Archie Goodwin. So there you go; the first Dick Sprang tribute comes in Iron Man #14, written by Archie Goodwin, and the second in Detective #441, written by Archie Goodwin.
