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Clayface
 
Clayface
 
Personal Info:
 
Real Name: Preston Payne
Also Known As:
Place Of Birth: Unknown
First Appearance: Detective Comics 478
Known Associates:
Group Affiliation: The Mudpack
Base Of Operations: Gotham City
Grudges: Batman
Creators:
Gallery: Click
 
Powers:
 
Enhanced Abilities: Clayface’s exo-skeleton gives him enhanced strength, endurance and agility.
Destructive Touch: Clayface’s body secretes a unique enzyme capable of reducing human flesh and bone to pure protoplasm.
 
Origins:
 
The third Clayface, Preston Payne, was born an acromegalic, suffering from chronic hyperpituitarism, which grotesquely distorted his physical appearance. Shunned and friendless throughout his life, Payne consulted plastic surgeons in vain. After persuading Matt Hagen (Clayface II) to donate a sample of his blood to him, Payne injected himself with an enzyme he had isolated from Hagen's blood, rendering his own flesh malleable. Payne fell victim to severe headaches and fevers, which he could only relieve by causing another person to dissolve into a pool of protoplasm at his now deadly touch. It goes without saying that this caused Payne to go mad.
Now the third person to call himself Clayface, Payton created an exoskeleton that supported his clay-like flesh and gave him superhuman strength.
 
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