In the end, it was ridiculously easy. There was always someone the superhero saved over and over and over again, whether it was a wanna-be girlfriend or a boyfriend or a kindly widowed aunt. All you had to do was find thatspecial peson and see who was closest to them. Then, badabing, bada-boom, you found your superhero.
As for the ubervillains, their hunger for money and power tripped them up. Most ubervillains had buckets of cash gotten in less-than-legal ways and were ofteh involved in shady land development deals.