LAND OF NIGHTSHADES	ATLAS
Created by John Ostrander and Luke McDonnell

INFORMATION

Official Name: Land of Nightshades
Aliases: Nightshade Dimension
First Appearance: Suicide Squad Vol. 1 #14 (June 1988): "Slipping Into Darkness"
Creators: John Ostrander and Luke McDonnell

HISTORY

A "fairy-like" dimension where darkness rules. When the evil Incubus invaded her kingdom, the Queen of the Land fled to Earth and the American Midwest. As "Maureen", she married politician Warren Eden and had two children, Larry and Eve. Maureen eventually received a message that it was safe to return, and brought the children to visit her homeland. However, they were attacked by the minions of the Incubus. Maureen turned into a shadow creature to fight the evil, but was slain by its power while Larry got caught. Before dying, Maureen pleaded for Eve to develop her own shadow powers and rescue Larry. Then Eve was returned to Earth.

As an adult, Eve became the super-heroine called Nightshade (II). When she felt confident enough, she entered the Nightshade Dimension with her teammates in the Suicide Squad (II), and found the Land more horrifying than ever before, completely controlled by the Incubus. When the team was captured, Eve found that the Incubus was actually her brother Larry, who revealed that the entity was really a possessing demon. A similar entity called the Succubus was put into Eve's unwilling body, but somehow, Eve managed to resist the demon's control. Deadshot then shot Larry between the eyes, thus destroying what was left of the Land of Nightshades. Eve returned to Earth a defeated woman, but her power was greatly increased due to the Succubus inside her.

Later, Nightshade joined the InterC.E.P.T. (The Interdimensional Cooperative Enforcement Police Team) in order to protect the Nightshade Dimension and "allow it time to heal".

The Land is possibly influenced by the so-called Shadowlands, a realm that gives several