(April 1986)
- Price:
- 1.75 USD; 2.50 CAD
- Pages:
- 44
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- DC Comics, Inc.
- Brand:
- DC [bullet]
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; Standard Modern Age US; Saddle-Stitched; Baxter Paper; Limited Series
[Detective Comics #477]
Cover Gallery / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Marshall Rogers
- Inks:
- Terry Austin
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Batman; Clayface [Preston Payne]
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
-
from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #477 (May-June 1978)
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The Coming of... Clayface III!
Batman / comic story / 17 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Len Wein
- Pencils:
- Marshall Rogers
- Inks:
- Dick Giordano
- Colors:
- Glynis Wein
- Letters:
- Ben Oda
- Editing:
- Julius Schwartz
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Batman; Silver St. Cloud (memory); Clayface [Preston Payne]; Alfred Pennyworth; Thomas Wayne (portrait); Martha Wayne (portrait); Commissioner Jim Gordon
- Synopsis:
- 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.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #478 (July-August 1978) [recolored]
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Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
If a Man Be Made of Clay...!
Batman / comic story / 17 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Len Wein
- Pencils:
- Marshall Rogers
- Inks:
- Dick Giordano
- Colors:
- Glynis Wein
- Letters:
- Ben Oda
- Editing:
- Julius Schwartz
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Batman; Clayface [Preston Payne]; Selina Kyle [Catwoman] (cameo, obscured); Silver St. Cloud (memory)
- Synopsis:
- Before Preston Payne can complete the mechanism which will restore his humanity, Batman confronts him and all of Clayface's efforts go up in fire and smoke.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #479 (September-October 1978) [recolored]
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Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
The Devil's Plague
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Arnold Drake
- Pencils:
- Marshall Rogers
- Inks:
- Marshall Rogers
- Colors:
- Marshall Rogers
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Characters:
- Cain (host)
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #254 (September-October 1977)
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Editing
Table of Contents
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0.
Classic Tales
Batman -
1.
[Detective Comics #477]
Cover Gallery -
2.
The Coming of... Clayface III!
Batman -
3.
If a Man Be Made of Clay...!
Batman -
4.
The Devil's Plague
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- Per Sandell
- Jerry Hillegas
- Matthew Head
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