Comic Title: Secret Origins #28
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: July 1988
On Sale Date: March 22, 1988 Shipping Date March 22, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #2

Shipping Date March 22, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #137

Newsstand Date April 14, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #137

Copyright Date March 22, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 48
Editor: Mark Waid

Title: "A Princess' Story"
Pages: 19

Feature(s):
Nightshade (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Robert Greenberger
Penciller: Rob Liefeld
Inker: Robert Lewis
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Reprinted In:
Suicide Squad:The Nightshade Odyssey TPB (2016)

Feature Character(s)

• Nightshade (last appearance in Suicide Squad #13; next appearance in Suicide Squad #14)

Supporting Character(s)

• Maureen Eden (Eve's mother; in flashback; next appearance in Suicide Squad #15)
• Larry Eden (Eve's brother; in flashback; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Suicide Squad #14)
• Warren Eden (Eve's father; in flashback; next appearance in Suicide Squad #24)

Villain(s)

• Incubus (in flashback; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Suicide Squad #14)
• Punch (in flashback to Nightshade's early adventures; next appearance in Suicide Squad #24)
• Jewelee (in flashback to Nightshade's early adventures; next appearance in Suicide Squad #24)
• Black Spider (in flashback to Nightshade's early adventures; no further appearances)
• The Image (a costumed crook; in flashback; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• King Faraday (in flashback to Nightshade's early career; next appearance in Suicide Squad #38)
• Amanda Waller (in flashback to Nightshade's early career; last appearance in Secret Origins #14; next appearance in Legends #1)
• Nemesis (in flashback to Nightshade joining the Suicide Squad; next appearance in Suicide Squad #3)

Other Character(s)

• Richard Craemer (last appearance in Suicide Squad #10; next appearance in Suicide Squad #19)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Nightshade (earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Secret Origins #28)
• Nightshade (Eve becomes Nightshade; last appearance in Secret Origins #28; next appearance in Suicide Squad #38)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Suicide Squad (in flashback to Suicide Squad #13)
• Rick Flag (in flashback to Suicide Squad #13)
• Deadshot (in flashback to Suicide Squad #13)
• Captain Boomerang (in flashback to Suicide Squad #13)
• Vixen (in flashback to Suicide Squad #13)
• Justice League (in flashback to Suicide Squad #13)
• Batman (in flashback to Suicide Squad #13)
• Martian Manhunter (in flashback to Suicide Squad #13)
• Guy Gardner (in flashback to Suicide Squad #13)
• Captain Atom (in flashback to Suicide Squad #13)
• Blue Beetle (in flashback to Suicide Squad #13)
• Mister Miracle (in flashback to Suicide Squad #13)
• Bronze Tiger (depicted as a member of the Suicide Squad)

Comments:
This story serves as setup and back story for the Nightshade Odyssey which begins in Suicide Squad #14.

Synopsis:
Troubled, Nightshade takes a walk in the prison yard on the eve before a mission. She meets Father Craemer and tells him her story. As a child, Eve Eden had an ideal youth until her mother revealed that she was actually an exile from another dimension. When she thought it was safe to return home Maureen Eden took her two children Eve and Larry through a portal to the shadow world. However, her enemy the Incubus was still in power. Maureen was critically injured, and Larry kidnapped. Young Eve was able to return to Earth.

Fearing her father would not believe her, Eve made up a story that her mother and brother were simply missing. She and her father grew estranged, while Eve trained herself for an eventual rescue mission. Eve used her new powers to become the super-hero Nightshade and petitioned King Faraday to become an agent of the CBI. When the Suicide Squad was formed, Eve became an early recruit. She met Tom Tresser, Nemesis, and Rick Flag and fell in love with both men. She also met Captain Atom, a super-hero secretly employed by the government and was used to create his false back story.

After Eve confesses her story to the holy man, she returns to her quarters to prepare for the mission in which she will lead the Suicide Squad on a rescue mission to find Larry Eden in the shadow dimension.