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118 – Clayface!

2019-04-25
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A panel from Detective Comics #40, May 1940
A panel from Detective Comics #40, May 1940

Detective Comics #40 (May 1940) introduced another Batman rogue: the original Clayface, whose alter-ego is Basil Karlo, a movie actor that goes crazy.

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