DC Superheroes Series 8 Clayface

The Clayface Saga is a time-period in my life I do not enjoy recalling. It began around February of last year, around the same time I got albino Man-Bat and the Ghostbusters Ecto-500. I had ordered Clayface from a someone on eBay (as well as a couple medical books and the Red Hood figure from the Secret Files Unmasked series, all from different retailers) and was hoping to have him after taking part one of the US Medical Licensing exam (yeah, remember, I'm going to be a doctor-- an action figure-collecting doctor. Sigh). Well Ecto-500 arrived, as did Man-Bat. The books, Red Hood and Clayface, however, never did. Somehow the US Postal Service managed to either lose them, or I got ripped off by a bunch of different eBayers simultaneously.

So it took me several weeks to recoup the losses I sustained, spending money on these things and not getting them. Eventually, however, I did get Clayface, and he was worth the wait (though not worth the hassle, and not worth the 2x cost of having to buy him twice). And for the record, I still have not gotten Red Hood.

Clayface earned Michael Crawford's Best Male Figure under 12" of 2007, and for good reason: he's fantastic. He's enormous, and his arms (being rubber molded over bendable wires) have infinite articulation points. The sculpt is reminiscient of the Animated Series Clayface, and while the character in the show for some reason always annoyed me, this figure does not. He's as close to perfect as one can get with an action figure, in my opinion.