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Issue Details

Issue #479
Published September-October 1978
Cover Price 0.50 USD
Pages 44
Editing Julius Schwartz; E. Nelson Bridwell (associate)

Cover Details

Characters Batman; Clayface III; Hawkman [Katar Hol]
Genre superhero
Pencils Marshall Rogers (signed)
Inks Dick Giordano (signed)

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

Characters Clayface III; Batman; Silver St. Cloud (a hallucination); James Gordon; Catwoman (?); Sal Menkin
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
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 Publishorial text article "Onward and Upward"

Synopsis editorial
Script Jenette Kahn
Letters typeset

8 page Hawkman story "True Heroes Never Die ... !"

Characters Fadeaway Man (intro, villain); Mavis Trent; Hawkman; Hawkgirl
Genre superhero
Script Len Wein
Pencils Rich Buckler
Inks John Celardo
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Clem Robins
Notes Series continues from Showcase (DC, 1977 series) #103. Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics [May 2008].