(April 1986)
DC,
1985 Series
- Price
- 1.75 USD; 2.50 CAD
- Pages
- 44
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1985-12-18
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
On-sale date from DC Releases #23.
Classic Tales
Batman / cover / 2 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Clayface [Preston Payne]
Indexer Notes
Wrap-around cover.
[Detective Comics #478]
Cover Gallery / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Clayface [Preston Payne]
- Reprints
-
from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #478 (July-August 1978)
-
Indexer Notes
Sequence on inside front cover page. Mislabeled as cover to #477.
The Coming of... Clayface III!
Batman / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Len Wein
- Pencils
- Marshall Rogers
- Inks
- Dick Giordano
- Colors
- Marshall Rogers
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; 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
- from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #478 (July-August 1978) [recolored]
-
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
- Script
- Len Wein
- Pencils
- Marshall Rogers
- Inks
- Dick Giordano
- Colors
- Marshall Rogers
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; 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
- from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #479 (September-October 1978) [recolored]
-
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
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cain (host)
- Reprints
- from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #254 (September-October 1977)
-
Indexer Notes
Sequence ends on inside back cover page.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Classic Tales
Batman -
1.
[Detective Comics #478]
Cover Gallery -
2.
The Coming of... Clayface III!
Batman -
3.
If a Man Be Made of Clay...!
Batman -
4.
The Devil's Plague
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Matthew Head
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
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