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Detective Comics, Issue #478

Publisher: DC

Series Title: Detective Comics Vol: 42

Issue: #478


Publish Date: July-August 1978
type: cover
Title: Clayface Is Back!
Genre: superhero
Cover Characters: Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Clayface [Preston Payne]
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Detective Comics - 478 page 9

Art Details

Artist: Marshall Rogers (Penciller)
Dick Giordano (Inker)
Ben Oda (Letterer)
Len Wein (Writer)
Media Type: Pen and Ink
Art Type: Interior Page
For Sale Status: NFS
Views: 1918
Comments: 7
Added to Site: 2/4/2011

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Issue Breakdown

Type Title Creators Characters Synopsis
cover Clayface Is Back! Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Clayface [Preston Payne]
comic story The Coming of... Clayface III! Clayface [Preston Payne] (origin); Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; James Gordon; Silver St. Cloud (flashback); Henry Matlock; Matt Hagen (does not appear as second Clayface) Preston Payne uses blood from Matt Hagen, the second Clayface, to try to change the effects of hyperpituitarism on his appearance. But the "cure" causes Payne's flesh to melt like wax and forces him to periodically dissolve others into protoplasm. When Batman interferes with Payne's theft of the components necessary to reverse his condition, he may become Clayface's next victim.
comics-form advertising The Big Fall Superman [Kal-El; Clark Kent]; bystanders Superman spots a falling elevator, rescues the trapped occupants, serves them Hostess Cup Cakes to calm them, and interviews them for TV as Clark Kent.
letters page Letters: typeset

 

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