Claw is a fictional character, a sword and sorcery hero published by DC Comics. He first appeared in Claw The Unconquered #1 (June 1975), and was created by David Michelinie and Ernie Chan. Similar in many ways to Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian (and, more particularly, Marvel Comics' depiction of him), Claw is a wanderer and a barbarian in an apparently prehistoric age who battles various wizards, thieves, monsters and warriors who cross his path. Unlike Conan however, Claw has a deformed, claw-like right hand, the result of a curse which has been placed on his family.