“THE COMING OF…CLAYFACE III!” Preston Payne uses blood from Matt Hagen, the second Clayface, to try to change the effects of hypopituitarism on his appearance…but the "cure" causes Payne's flesh to melt like wax. When Batman interferes with Payne's theft of the components necessary to reverse his condition, he may become Clayface's next victim!

Writer Len Wein and artist Marshall Rogers vividly depicted Batman's battle with the third Clayface. Preston Payne was an acromegalic - a victim of chronic hyperpituitarism that distorted his body. He believed that he had found a cure after securing a blood sample from the second Clayface, Matt Hagen. But instead of curing Payne, it metabolized his degenerative condition so much that he developed a corrosive touch, which he used to infect others whenever a tremendous fever raged within him. After turning several bodies into oozing puddles of protoplasm, the new Clayface incurred the Dark Knight's wrath.

Notes:

• This issue contains the Hostess Superhero Ad, Superman in "The Big Fall".
• Letter to the editor from Peter Sanderson of Columbia University, New York, New York.