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The Riddler
 
The Riddler
 
Personal Info:
 
Real Name: Edward Nashton
Also Known As: Edward Nigma, The Prince of Puzzles, E. Nigma, Arthur Wynne, Edward E. Nygma, The Crown Prince of Conundrums, Wizard of Quiz, The Puzzle King, Conundrum Champion, Mockingbird
Place Of Birth: Gotham City
First Appearance: Detective Comics Vol.1 #140 (1948) Golden Age Villain
Known Associates: Hush, Query, Echo, Cluemaster, Penguin, Carmine "The Roman" Falcone, Enigma
Group Affiliation: Joker League of Anarchy, The Society, Justice League of Arkham
Base Of Operations: Gotham City
Grudges: Batman and Robin
Creators: Bill Finger and Dick Sprang
Gallery: Click
 
Powers:
 
The Riddler has no super human abilities, but he is a supreme problem-solver and criminal mastermind. He is a genius with brilliant deductive power. His mind excels with puzzles, minds games and manipulations. He often employs guns as he is an accomplished marksman. He is known to be quite adept in using his cane when fighting hand-to-hand. He sometimes employs weaponry disguised as puzzles, such as jigsaw pieces that explode, or pistols shaped like question marks. The Riddler usually employs a number of thugs to provide muscle for his schemes.
 
Origins:
 
When Eddie Nashton was a schoolboy, one of his teachers announced a contest to see which of her students could assemble a particular jigsaw puzzle the fastest. That night, Nashton secretly took a photograph of the assembled puzzle, which he found after breaking into the teachers desk. The next day, Eddie being the only student to know beforehand what the completed puzzle should look like, won the contest with ease. This was the first known example of Nashton’s dishonest use of puzzles and was most certainly a harbinger of things to come.
Years later, the adult Nashton further parlayed his love of conundrums by running a rigged puzzle booth at a carnival. Yearning to make even bigger money, he decided to become a thief on a grand scale and chose to match wits with the Gotham City police and Batman. Changing his real name to Edward Nigma (E.Nigma), Nashton donned a costume festooned with question marks and became the Riddler, a wily crook that always sent the police clues to his forthcoming crimes in the forms of riddles and puzzles.
 
Notes:
 
The Riddler at DC Database
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