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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published April 1986
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 1.75
Pages 44
Editing ?

Cover Details - "Classic Tales"

Characters Batman; Clayface [Preston Payne]
Genre superhero
Pencils Marshall Rogers
Inks Marshall Rogers
Colors Marshall Rogers
Notes Wrap-around cover.

1 page Cover Gallery cover reprint (on interior page) "Detective Comics #477"

Characters Batman; Clayface [Preston Payne]
Genre superhero
Pencils Marshall Rogers
Inks Terry Austin
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #477 (May-June 1978)

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

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.
Genre superhero
Script Len Wein
Pencils Marshall Rogers
Inks Dick Giordano
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Ben Oda
Editing Julius Schwartz
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #478 (July-August 1978)

17 page Batman story "If a Man Be Made of Clay...!"

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.
Genre superhero
Script Len Wein
Pencils Marshall Rogers
Inks Dick Giordano
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Ben Oda
Editing Julius Schwartz
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #479 (September-October 1978)

7 page story "The Devil's Plague"

Characters Cain (host)
Genre horror
Script Arnold Drake
Pencils Marshall Rogers
Inks Marshall Rogers
Colors Marshall Rogers
Reprinted from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #254 (September-October 1977)