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Issue: Detective Comics #478
Publication Date: July 1978
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Issues: #478 of 883 Issues (1409 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/25/1978
Volume: 42
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893046508
Price: $0.35 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #155.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; standard Silver Age US; standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint; glossy
Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Disclose Reprinted In6
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Title Page
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Clayface Is Back!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Clayface [Preston Payne]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagLäderlappen #8/1980 published July 1980
as [untitled] [Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-2857
Disclose Notes: Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
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The Coming of... Clayface III!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Clayface [Preston Payne] (origin); Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; James Gordon; Silver St. Cloud (flashback); Henry Matlock; Matt Hagen (does not appear as second Clayface)
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagLynvingen #9/1980 published January 1980
as Leiransiktet III gjør inntog [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLäderlappen #9/1980 published August 1980
as Leransiktets återkomst [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBatman Extra #7 published January 1983
as Das Grauen heißt Clayface! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShadow of the Batman #5 published April 1986
as The Coming of... Clayface III! [Story on Interior Page(s)]recolored
In Content Item: FlagBatman: Strange Apparitions #[nn] published January 1999
as The Coming of... Clayface III! [Story on Interior Page(s)]as recolored for Shadow of the Batman reprint
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 17
Job Number: S-2849
Disclose Notes: First full appearance of this version of Clayface, previous issue had cameo.
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The Big Fall

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Kal-El; 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.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: S-2865
Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from Davidson Corry, Adam Castro, Jeff Albrecht and Peter Sanderson.

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