DC Comics · Detective Comics #300 · February 1962 · 10¢ · 32 pages
Grade: VG- 3.5
Cover and interior credits unconfirmed for this specific issue.
“The Bizarre Polka-Dot Man!” — the debut of Abner Reeves, a.k.a. Polka-Dot Man, one of the more genuinely strange villain concepts Silver Age DC produced. Reeves uses polka dots as weapons: each dot peeled from his costume becomes a different device — flying saucers, shields, tools of chaos — Batman and Robin have to work out the logic of the gimmick before they can beat it. It's the kind of high-concept absurdity the era did earnestly, and it lands better than it has any right to.
Specific page counts and additional story credits for this issue are not confirmed in available reference sources. The Polka-Dot Man story is the issue's primary hook and the reason collectors come looking for it.
Detective Comics #300 is a triple-digit milestone in one of DC's flagship ongoing series. Polka-Dot Man spent the better part of five decades as comic relief — a punchline villain trotted out for nostalgia cameos — before James Gunn's The Suicide Squad (2021) gave Abner Reeves a full arc with genuine pathos. That film rehabilitated the character's reputation and pulled first-appearance demand up with it. This is the issue that started it.
Condition VG- 3.5 — .
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DC Comics · Detective Comics #300 · February 1962 · 10¢ · 32 pages
Grade: VG- 3.5
Cover and interior credits unconfirmed for this specific issue.
“The Bizarre Polka-Dot Man!” — the debut of Abner Reeves, a.k.a. Polka-Dot Man, one of the more genuinely strange villain concepts Silver Age DC produced. Reeves uses polka dots as weapons: each dot peeled from his costume becomes a different device — flying saucers, shields, tools of chaos — Batman and Robin have to work out the logic of the gimmick before they can beat it. It's the kind of high-concept absurdity the era did earnestly, and it lands better than it has any right to.
Specific page counts and additional story credits for this issue are not confirmed in available reference sources. The Polka-Dot Man story is the issue's primary hook and the reason collectors come looking for it.
Detective Comics #300 is a triple-digit milestone in one of DC's flagship ongoing series. Polka-Dot Man spent the better part of five decades as comic relief — a punchline villain trotted out for nostalgia cameos — before James Gunn's The Suicide Squad (2021) gave Abner Reeves a full arc with genuine pathos. That film rehabilitated the character's reputation and pulled first-appearance demand up with it. This is the issue that started it.
Condition VG- 3.5 — .
We use what the scientists are calling artificial intelligence to research and write our descriptions — it gives us more time to add books to our website and provide you with a wider array of inventory. We think Klaatu would approve. Details are verified but the robot does slip up. We're not infallible. Every book is graded by a human collector who has actually held it. If anything ever looks off, reach on out at robopictocomics@gmail.com.
