Issue Shadow of the Bat  64
Subtitle The Wedding Present
Date July 1997
Writer(s) Alan Grant
Artist(s) Dave Taylor, Stan Woch
storyline Batman wrecked his car while evading a pedestrian on a secluded road. He got out to check on her and was captured. He awakened tied up on a strange old house. The man there mistook him for a demon, who he said killed everyone at his sister's wedding (the pedestrian was in a bridal gown). He set the house on fire hoping to destroy the demon. Batman escaped and saved the man from the burning house. The real demon attacked him while he looked for the bride. Jason Blood, Etrigan's host, arrived and told Batman what had happened: 100 years previous, when couples often got protection demons as wedding presents, a present went berserk.