The second target Spider-Man set his sights on was the Riddler, who had committed two crimes recently.
The Riddler's methods were still the same old routine: kill someone, leave behind a riddle, and lure Batman into solving it.
Spider-Man had targeted the Riddler because he was currently carrying out another serial murder case, with two victims already dead.
Spider-Man saw the photos left behind at the two crime scenes in Batman's archives, then went to the Gotham Police Department to obtain the victims' appearances, fingerprints, and genetic information.
He personally went to the first victim's home. It was a young man living alone in a middle-class apartment by the Gotham River, twenty-six years old, with no notable characteristics.
He lived on the twenty-third floor. Spider-Man climbed directly up the side of the building, entered through the window, and found the riddle the Riddler had left inside.
The riddle was scrawled across a bloodstained wall. In bloody letters at its center were the words: "What makes life fade away, and what brings life anew?"
Spider-Man looked around but found no useful clues. The victim's autopsy report stated that he had been stabbed to death from behind, but there was neither a murder weapon nor any footprints.
To Batman's surprise, Spider-Man did not stay there for even another second. He did not make any move to search for clues, but left briskly without even giving the riddle another look.
Next, he went to the second victim's home, a wooden house in the outskirts of Gotham. This victim was also a single adult man, with nothing particularly noteworthy about him.
This time, the riddle left on the wall was: "What makes seeds grow, then casts them aside?"
Spider-Man gave the place another cursory look, then found an empty patch of ground near a