Beach Read TO WED THE DEVIL Epilogue

And now, after all this supernatural mishigas...

...the lovely ingenue, Sarah Shulman and the studly hero, Jerome Moore will be joined in wedded bliss!

I guess writer Len Wein and artist Tony DeZuniga felt the only way to get all that exposition in only three pages was to do them as an illustrated text piece!

BTW: look closely at the cover.

The border illustrations are art from the Epilogue re-used, but as color line art!

Speaking of the cover...note the insert painting is extremely "muddy"

Considering it's an original done specifically for the comic by noted paperback (particularly gothic romance) cover artist Jerome Podwil, it's a shame the technology of the time, despite innovative production manager Jack Adler's best effort, couldn't do better!
I presume the cost of doing a full-color separation put it out of the question, so he tried his best with a black and white half-tone with flat color added.

Here's the actual painting (scanned from the original)!

It's the only time Podwill, with numerous pulp and paperback art credits, did any work in comic books!

Perhaps he was disappointed with how it turned out?

One other note:

This is the only time I've ever seen a Jewish heroine in a gothic romance story.

Nothing is made of that aspect throughout the tale (nor should it have).

And the Epilogue's rendering of the traditional Jewish wedding ceremony is underplayed, though it's curious that the location for the cermony is referred to as a chapel, rather than a temple.

The only time I've ever seen a Jewish religious building referred to as a "chapel" was as part of a funeral home!

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