"Edward Nygma" redirects here. For the Batman Forever film character, see Edward Nygma (Batman Forever).
"The Riddler" redirects here. For other uses, see The Riddler (disambiguation).
Comics character
Riddler
Riddler as he appeared on the cover of Batman: One Bad Day - The Riddler #1 (October 2022). Art by Brian Bolland.
Publication information
Publisher
DC Comics
First appearance
Detective Comics #140 (October 1948)[1][2]
Created by
Bill Finger (writer) Dick Sprang (artist)
In-story information
Alter ego
Edward Nigma (later Nygma or Nashton)
Team affiliations
Legion of Doom
Secret Society of Super Villains
Secret Six
Injustice League
Notable aliases
Enigma
Eddie Nash
Puzzle-Pirate
Punctuation Prick
Prince of Puzzles
Abilities
Genius-level intellect
Skilled inventor, engineer, and escape artist
Uses complex riddles, puzzles, and lethal contraptions
The Riddler (Edward Nigma, later Edward Nygma or Edward Nashton) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Bill Finger and Dick Sprang, and debuted in Detective Comics #140 in October 1948. He has become one of the most enduring enemies of the superhero Batman and belongs to the collective of adversaries that make up his rogues gallery.
In his comic book appearances, the Riddler is depicted as a criminal mastermind in Gotham City. He has an obsessive compulsion to incorporate riddles, puzzles, and death traps in his schemes to prove his intellectual superiority over Batman and the police. His real name–Edward Nigma–is a pun itself; an "enigma" is a person or thing that is difficult to understand. With this self-conscious use of an elaborate gimmick, the Riddler's crimes are often theatrical and ostentatious. The character commonly wears a domino mask and either a green unitard decorated with question mark prints or a green suit and bowler hat. A black, green, or purple question mark serves as his visual motif.
The Riddler has been adapted into numerous forms of media, having been portrayed in live action by Frank Gorshin and John Astin on the 1960s television series Batman, Jim Carrey in the 1995 film Batman Forever, Cory Michael Smith on the 2014 Fox series Gotham, and Paul Dano in the 2022 film The Batman. John Glover, Robert Englund, Wally Wingert, and others have provided the character's voice ranging from animation to video games.
^Rovin, Jeff (1987). The Encyclopedia of Supervillains. New York: Facts on File. p. 299. ISBN 0-8160-1356-X.
^Fleisher, Michael L. (1976). The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes, Volume 1: Batman. Macmillan Publishing Co. pp. 315–317. ISBN 0-02-538700-6. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
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