Hell is empty... and all the devils are here! O, Misery! 
- — Katherine Karlo as Clayface
Gotham Academy #10 is an issue of the series Gotham Academy (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 2015. It was published on September 9, 2015.
Synopsis for "The Cursed Play"
With the theatre on fire, Olive and Pomeline escape onto the street alongside director Simon Trent and Katherine. Katherine offers to play one of the many available leads for him as the fire was the final straw for the rest of the cast members, but she is interrupted by Olive, who steals Trent away. She quickly volunteers herself as well as the rest of the Detective Club to fulfill the lead roles, leaving Katherine to continue as an “understudy for the understudy”.
At the dress rehearsal, the team practice the play until the lighting disrupts the show. Inside the lighting booth, Eric Jørgensen sits scared after having witnessed the Phantom, but Olive stops him and reveals that it may have been her mother. Noticing a muddy trail, Colton leads them to a flat wall.
At a meeting with Strange, Olive reveals her anger about her mother, but his advice is merely to stop working on the play. Later, during her monologue, Olive notices more orange mud falling from the rafters and soon after it a light nearly crushes her. They follow the Phantom backstage but find nothing except a cloak more mud and a map that only someone very close to Maps could have taken, such as her roommate Katherine.
In Maps' room, they find a horrifically deformed Katherine who rushes out the window as an orange mud, while Pomeline finds a shrine build against Simon Trent. Back on stage, Katherine reveals her true identity as the “daughter” of Clayface. With the spirit of Clayface caught up in a battle of Shakespearean wits against Trent, a fire hose spray from Olive and Maps knocks the villain down and reveals Katherine curled into a ball. The girls promise to help Katherine, but Pomeline shocks them with a newspaper claiming Calamity has returned to Gotham City.
Appearing in "The Cursed Play"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Katherine Karlo (Identity revealed) (Possessed by Clayface)
Other Characters:
- Eric Jørgensen
- Hugo Strange
- Katherine Karlo (Mentioned only)
- Sybil Silverlock (Mentioned only)
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Trivia
- During the face-off between Clayface and Trent, the two use several Shakespeare quotes from Othello, Hamlet, and others against one-another. Similarly, the play that the Detective Club are performing is Macbeth.
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