MR. POLKA-DOT
Real Name: Abner Krill
Class: Human technology-user
Occupation: Professional criminal
Group Affiliation: None
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: Polka-Dot Man
Base of Operations: Gotham City
First Appearance: Detective Comics #300 (February, 1962)
Powers: Mr. Polka-Dot wore a battlesuit equipped with a number of electronic devices that resembled polka-dots. When ripped from his costume, each one served a different purpose, and was directed by a control panel on his belt. These devices included the following; Red polka-dot: became a flying buzzsaw. Red polka-dot 2: Emitted sleeping gas. Yellow polka-dot: Became a flying saucer capable of traveling at low speeds. Orange polka-dot: Became a blazing globe capable of blinding opponents. Orange polka-dot 2: Split into a number of remote-controlled robotic fists. White polka-dot: Formed a protective bubble around Mr. Polka-Dot. After a poka-dot was used it disintegrated.
History: (Detective Comics #300) - Abner Krill invented a polka-dot battlesuit and became Mr. Polka-Dot, a criminal who robbed only locations that had dot or spot motifs. He encountered Batman and Robin while robbing the Spot Service Cleaning Company, but managed to escape. Despite the predictable nature of his crime locales, he succeeded in avoiding Batman and Robin while looting a number of Gotham businesses including The Ink Spot and Domino Game Co. Robin managed to track Mr. Polka-Dot to his hideout, an abandoned tank in the city dump, but ended up a captive. Mr. Polka-Dot forced Robin to send Batman a ransom note that would lead the caped crusader into a trap, but he failed to notice the holes punched in the note, actually a Braille message from Robin secretly warning Batman. Batman rescued Robin, and he also figured out another pattern in Mr. Polka-Dot's crimes. The crime locations formed a connect-the-dots image of a stick figure, needing only a dot at the Drummond Map Company to complete the picture. Batman arrived at the map company, and Mr. Polka-Dot was shocked that Batman had uncovered his master scheme. He was so stunned in fact, that he didn't think to use one of his polka-dot weapons before Batman felled him with a single punch and sent him off to jail.
(Batgirl: Year One #5) - Polka-Dot got drunk and belligerent at the My Alibi bar, so the bartender knocked him out with a baseball bat.
(Batman: GCPD #1)-Mr. Polka Dot's battlesuit no longer functioned, so he used a baseball bat to rob a jewelry store. Gotham officer Harvey Bullock snatched away the weapon and hit him over the head with it. Mr. Polka-Dot returned to prison, but he did file a brutality complaint against Bullock.
Comments: Created by Bob Kane & Sheldon Moldoff
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