Batman: Strange Apparitions #[nn]
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis collection reprints a celebrated run of Batman stories from the late 1970s, primarily from Detective Comics issues #469-476, written by Steve Englehart and drawn by Marshall Rogers and Terry Austin. It follows Bruce Wayne as he faces a rogues' gallery of classic foes—including the Joker, Hugo Strange, Clayface, and Deadshot—while navigating a complex relationship with socialite Silver St. Cloud. The volume is widely regarded as a high point of Bronze Age Batman storytelling, blending moody detective work with sharp character drama.
In Batman: Strange Apparitions #nn, a desperate man's attempt to reverse his disfiguring condition spirals into something far more monstrous. When Preston Payne uses blood from the second Clayface to alter his own body, the experiment goes horrifically wrong—turning him into a being of shifting, melting flesh with a chilling new hunger. With Batman stepping in to stop Payne’s dangerous quest for a cure, the Dark Knight finds himself face-to-face with a foe whose very form defies control. Written by Len Wein and illustrated with haunting precision by Marshall Rogers—whose art, both interior and on the cover by Terry Austin, captures the eerie, grotesque beauty of the story—this 2000 issue delivers a chilling, body-horror-infused tale that lingers long after the final page.
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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.
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