The Flash #194

Something deeply unsettling crashes this church wedding in Neal Adams's striking 1970 cover: the Flash stands at the aisle's edge, reaching out in alarm, while a veiled bride in white walks toward the altar on the arm of a suited man — and lurking in the foreground, a horned demonic figure watches the procession with sinister intent. The story title "The Bride Cast Two Shadows" hints at a mystery where nothing about this ceremony is quite what it seems, and the contrast between the cheerful wedding guests and that crouching devil makes for a wonderfully tense image. John Broome's script paired with Ross Andru and Mike Esposito's interior art promises the kind of imaginative, off-kilter adventure that made Silver Age Flash stories so consistently compelling.