To further confuse things, in the midst of all this John Byrne wrote a Jay Garrick story set in the Golden Age which featured the Shade as being ready to kill Joan to suit his own ends. Robinson was actually able to use that in his eventual stories about Culp sharing Shade's body and usurping control from time to time, with Shade unawares of the fact, but it does put this scene in an odd sort of a place.