Comic Title: Detective Comics #478
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: Jul/Aug 1978
On Sale Date: April 27, 1978 Newsstand Date April 25, 1978
Source: DC Coming Attractions, #17
For Release the week of April 25th

Copyright Date April 27, 1978
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1978

Newsstand Date April 25, 1978
Source: Comic Reader, #155

Newsstand Date April 25, 1978
Source: Daily Planet, Vol. 78 #16
Listed as on sale the week of April 25th

Shipping Date April 4, 1978
Source: DC Coming Attractions, #17
Shipping the week of April 4th

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.35
Page Count: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "The Coming of... Clayface III"
Pages: 17

Feature(s):
Batman (of Earth-1)

Writer: Len Wein
Penciller: William Marshall Rogers
Inker: Dick Giordano
Letterer: Ben Oda
Colorist: Glynis Wein (Oliver)

Reprinted In:
Shadow of the Batman #5 (1986)
Batman:Strange Apparitions TPB (2000)
Legends of the Dark Knight – Marshall Rogers HC (2012)
Tales of the Batman:Len Wein HC (2015)
Batman Arkham:Clayface TPB (2017)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Brave & the Bold #143; next appearance in Detective Comics #479)

Supporting Character(s)

• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Brave & the Bold #143; next appearance in Detective Comics #479)
• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Brave & the Bold #142; next appearance in Batman #303)

Villain(s)

• Clayface (Preston Payne; next appearance in Detective Comics #479)
• Clayface (as Matt Hagen; last appearance in Action Comics #443; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #264)