American Update: Batmania Max: Watching the Detectives – Debut of second Clayface in #298!
*DC: Continuing our marathon exploration of the Gotham Guardian and his friends and foes, we reach Detective Comics #298, in which Batman & robin faced, for the first time, the menace of the sinister shape-shifter, Clayface! This was the second villain to use the moniker, and the two were not connected, the Golden Age version being a demented actor and this new iteration, in true sci-fi style, managing his malevolent metamorphoses courtesy of a radioactive meteor. As you do. Unlike the first Clayface, this one stuck around for a decade and became a major player in Batman’s Rogue’s Gallery. This attractive copy of a character debut is in FN+, priced at £100, and a lovely unmarred cover scene with unbroken purple background colour, and superior cream interior pages. SORRY, THIS HAS NOW SOLD