DETECTIVE COMICS #360

Cover shows moderate general wear consistent with a mid-grade Silver Age book: light surface soiling and slight color fading across the purple background, small stress marks near the top staples/spine area, and minor edge wear at the corners. There appears to be a small crease or pin-sized indentation near the top edge and slight waviness to the cover stock. The book is in a protective sleeve which obscures fine edge detail; interior pages and back cover were not assessed.

Detective Comics #360 arrived in February 1966, one issue removed from the celebrated debut of Barbara Gordon as Batgirl in Detective Comics #359. The lead Batman feature, written by Gardner Fox with art attributed to the Bob Kane studio (pencils generally credited to Sheldon Moldoff), continues the mid-1960s Batman line during its transition toward the campier tone that would soon accompany the television series. A back-up Elongated Man story, a Detective Comics staple of the period, rounds out the issue, with Carmine Infantino's studio supplying the atmospheric cover work typical of the era.

Market data shows a book with steady but unspectacular collector demand: certified sales are thin above grade 9.0 despite a healthy census of over one hundred graded copies, and FMV steps from the mid grades up through 9.4 show the modest, incremental pricing typical of a solid but non-key Silver Age issue. Interest in the book is largely residual, driven by collectors building complete Detective Comics or Batman runs through the 1960s rather than by any first appearance or landmark event tied to this specific issue. The near-total absence of 9.6 and 9.8 sales data reflects genuine scarcity at the top of the census rather than active bidding pressure.

This is a run-filler for Silver Age Batman and Detective Comics collectors, most often acquired as part of a page-by-page assembly of the title through the Batgirl-era issues rather than sought on its own merits. Lower and mid-grade raw copies move steadily at modest prices as reading or filler copies, while high-grade certified examples are scarce enough that a true 9.8 would likely draw a rarity premium disproportionate to the book's modest thematic importance, simply because so few exist to satisfy registry-grade demand.