He hired murderers to kill his business partners and steal the secret contracts he had signed with the victims.

Having a special place as Batman's first published adventure, "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate" has been remade several times.

In 1969, the thirtieth anniversary of the story, an update written by Mike Friedrich was published in Detective Comics #387 with art by Bob Brown and Joe Giella.

", modernized the story and introduced an element of generational gap, playing on a small aspect of the original in which the victim's son was suspected of the crime.

"), and two new takes on the story, one by Marv Wolfman and Jim Aparo, and another by Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle.

Brad Meltzer wrote an updated version of this story with art by Bryan Hitch for The New 52's Detective Comics volume 2 #27 which was released in January 2014 as part of Batman's 75th anniversary.

[2] The plot and characters are largely the same, but with a twist ending implying Stryker becomes the Joker after falling into the vat of acid.