We Have Already Seen...
...Ellen Drew was always Ellen Drew, not "Mary Cartwright"!
The drugged (and widowed) newlywed was being used by fraudsters hoping to convince a dying old man that she was his (deceased) daughter, whom he'd promised a fabulously-valuable gift upon her marriage!
But, when they looked behind a painting he pointed to, hoping to find his safe, they found...a blank wall!
Wow!
Her real hubby's not even cold in his grave and she's already casting longing glances at another guy?
Writers Sy Reit & Jack Oleck must've had a pretty...interesting view of women!
Trivia: the editor of the book was
Dorothy Woolfolk, who started in comics during the Golden Age (1943) and continued to the Bronze Age (1974)!
Besides
DC's romance titles, she was also the editor of
all three of the publisher's "heroine" books (
Wonder Woman,
Supergirl, and
Lois Lane) for several months in 1972!
So, I'm astonished she'd let that last panel though in this never-reprinted story from
DC's Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love #2 (1971).
Here's the original art for the cover...
...a pen and ink (plus gray wash) rendering by Neal Adams, which was photographed through a
mezzotint screen, and then had "flat" color added to produced the cover seen above!
Now that's a "Secret of the Painting", eh?
We hope you've enjoyed our annual "beach read" presentation, and will continue to join us each Wednesday for another rarely-seen
True Love Comics Tale!
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