Adventures into the Unknown #11
"Marriage of Death" is a haunting tale from Adventures into the Unknown #11 (1950), where an elderly woman named Marian encounters her friend Annette Whitney—suddenly youthful and unchanged despite the passage of decades. Annette reveals she married Pierre Le Mort, a man who is, in truth, Death himself, and though she died long ago, she remains trapped in her prime, unable to escape his grasp. Ken Bald handles both pencils and inks for the story, while Edvard Moritz delivers the chilling cover art.
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Marian (an old woman) is baffled to see her old friend, Annette Whitney, young and beautiful. Annette should be an old woman but hasn't aged a day in decades. A distraught Annette reveals that she married a dashing man named Pierre Le Mort, who is none other than death himself. She died shortly thereafter, but is now trapped in her young body. Wanting to escape the mortal world and find eternal peace, her husband wont let her leave because he loves her.
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