Comic Title: Batman Annual #11
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1987
On Sale Date: April 28, 1987 Newsstand Date April 28, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #38

Newsstand Date April 30, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #696

Shipping Date April 7, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #696

Copyright Date April 7, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Newsstand Date April 23, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #114

Shipping Date March 31, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #114

Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 48
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "Mortal Clay"
Pages: 23

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Alan Moore
Artist: George Freeman
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Lovern Kindzierski

Reprinted In:
Across the Universe:The DC Universe Stories of Alan Moore TPB (2003)
DC Universe:The Stories of Alan Moore TPB (2006)
DC Universe by Alan Moore HC (2012)
DC Universe by Alan Moore TPB (2013)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Outsiders Special #1; next appearance in Batman Annual #11)

Supporting Character(s)

• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Batman Annual #13; next appearance in Batman Annual #11)
• Vicki Vale (last appearance in Suicide Squad #1; next appearance in Batman #412)

Villain(s)

• Clayface (Preston Payne; first post-Crisis appearance; last appearance in Secret Origins #44; next appearance in Swamp Thing #66)

Other Character(s)

• Helena (a mannequin; next appearance in Secret Origins #44)
• An unnamed security guard (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Preston Payne escapes from a fire. He then begins walking the streets of Gotham City in search of his love Helena, a mannequin. He finds her in the department store window at Rosendales. Clayface then begins living in the store and carrying on a secret relationship with the mannequin at night.

Payne begins to get paranoid after he finds the mannequin in the lingerie department. When he notices a security guard removing a scarf from the doll, he believes that she is having an affair. He kills the guard in anger.

The death of the security guard brings the situation to the attention of Batman. The Dark Knight enters the store to find Clayface, who now believes that Batman and Helena are have their own relationship. Batman eventually defeats Payne and sends him to Arkham with the doll. However Clayface is no longer in love with Helena, but he will not ask for a divorce.