Clayface II

CLAYFACE II

Real Name: Matthew Hagan

Class: Human technology-user

Occupation: Fortune hunter, criminal

Group Affiliation: Mud Pack

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Gotham City

First Appearance: Detective Comics #298/1 (December, 1961)

Powers: Clayface could transform the color and shape of his body in any way he desired using a unique protoplasm. The natural form of this protoplasm gave him these abilities for 48 hours, while his own synthetic version lasted for five hours and had debilitating side effects.

History: (Detective Comics #298/1) -

Matt Hagan discovered a protoplasm that gave him fantastic powers while scuba-diving in an underground grotto. He took on the identity of Clayface and committed a number of robberies before being captured by Batman. He returned time and again to plague Batman, and on one occassion the team of Batman and Superman.

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Clayface was killed by shadow demons during the Crisis.

When the other villains who had used the identity of Clayface formed the Mud Pack they gathered up Clayface II's remains and made him a post-mortem member.

(Hawk and Dove Annual #1) - S.T.A.R. Labs opened a portal to Limbo in operation Zeppelin, and the souls of deceased villains Iron Major, Top, Clayface, El Papagayo, Electrocutioner and Icicle were seeking to escape the underworld and return to Earth through the portal. When Director Jeffrey Simon, creator of Zeppelin, disappeared, a rescue party went through the portal, and the villains captured them. They bargained with their demonic jailer, a demon impersonating Etrigan, exchanging their prisoners to gain temporary mortal forms, and prepared to return to Earth. They were opposed by Hawk, Dove, and the Titans West. The battle was firerce, but the tide turned when Jeb Stuart came down from heaven and gave Hawk his Haunted Tank. The false Etrigan offered them a way out through another portal, but he was merely toying with the dead villains, and when he sent them through a portal, it turned out to be an entrance to Hell.

Comments: Created by Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff.