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Issue Details

Issue #478
Published July-August 1978
Cover Price 0.35 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz; E. Nelson Bridwell (associate)

Cover Details - "Clayface is Back!"

Characters Clayface III; Batman
Genre superhero
Pencils Marshall Rogers (signed)
Inks Terry Austin (signed)

17 page Batman story "The Coming of... Clayface III!"

Characters Clayface III; Batman; Alfred Pennyworth; James Gordon; Silver St. Cloud (flashback); Henry Matlock; S. T. A. R. Labs; Clayface (Matt Hagen)
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.
Genre superhero
Script Len Wein
Pencils Marshall Rogers
Inks Dick Giordano
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Ben Oda
Reprinted in Shadow of the Batman (DC, 1985 series) #5 (April 1986) [recolored]; in Batman: Strange Apparitions (DC, 1999 series) #nn ([November] 1999) [as recolored for Shadow of the Batman]

1 page Superman advertisement "The Big Fall"

Characters Superman [Kal-El, aka. Clark Kent]; bystanders
Synopsis 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.
Genre superhero
Script E. Nelson Bridwell?
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Vince Colletta
Letters Ben Oda
Notes Ad for Hostess Cup Cakes.