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Detective Comics #478 (1978) · The Collector

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Detective Comics (1937)
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DC Comics#478

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Detective Comics #478

The Coming of... Clayface III!

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: July 1978
On sale: Apr 25, 1978
Cover price: $0.35
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Printing not stated · Newsstand · $0.35

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Grand Comics Database issue 32446

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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.

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Printing not stated · Newsstand · GB market · £0.12

Credits

Writer: Len Wein
Penciller: Marshall Rogers
Inker: Dick Giordano
Colorist: Glynis Oliver
Letterer: Ben Oda
Covers: Marshall Rogers, Terry Austin
Cover colors: Tatjana Wood
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Associate editor: E. Nelson Bridwell
Managing editor: Joe Orlando

Characters

Alfred Pennyworth
Batman
Clayface
Henry Matlock
James Gordon
Matt Hagen]
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