Riddler is released from prison on a technicality. Commissioner Gordon suggests he leave Gotham and go straight. He boards a bus headed for Hub City. Onboard he meets a stripper named Sphinx who takes a shine to him. Tot drags Vic out of the to force him to take some much needed rest after he faints from exhaustion. In a hurry to get the vigilante out of town the scholar neglects to fill up with gas. They run out of gas in the middle of nowhere. Fortunately, a both comes by to pick them up - the bus that the Riddler and his paramour are on. Sphinx convinces Riddler into joining in holding up the bus. The woman forces the driver towards an old abandonded bridge. The bus gets stuck in the snow. Sphinx offers to let anyone who can correctly answer the Riddler's riddle get safely off the bus. Those who fail die. Vic puts on his mask and becomes the Question. He distracts the two psychopaths by telling them riddles of his own. He gets close enough to disarm Sphinx. She from the bus. When she tries to cross the old bridge she falls through and drowns. Feeling in the Christmas spirit the Question offer the Riddler his freedom if he can correctly answer a riddle.

This issue's recommended reading: The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

Also out this month: The Phantom #1...