Morocco

Morocco is the most western of the North African countries. It is one of only three nations (besides Spain and France) to have both Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines. Geographically, Morocco is characterized by a rugged mountainous interior and large portions of desert.

In DC Comics continuity, an amateur occultist named Gary Lester suffered great mental trauma after witnessing a botched exorcism in Newcastle and turned to drugs as a coping mechanism. By the mid 1980s, he was a hopeless heroin addict. In 1986, Gary wandered the streets of Tangier in Morocco hoping to feed his habit. He witnessed a sweatshop owner violently casting a small Sudanese child out into the dusty streets. Examining the boy, Gary recognized that something was intrinsically wrong with him. The look in the boy's eyes reminded him of the Newcastle experience, and he decided to take him back to his hotel room. He knew that the child was under the thrall of a demon, and so, Gary attempted to exorcise the malevolent spirit from him all by himself. He drew forth a hunger demon known as Mnemoth. As Mnemoth tore free from the boy's body, Gary bound the entity inside of a special flask.

Points of Interest

 * Tangier: Tangier is a city in northern Morocco with a population of about 850,000. It is located on the North African coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel. It is the capital of the Tangier-Tetouan Region and of the Tangier-Asilah prefecture of Morocco. On the 1960s anthology series Thriller, an American came to Tangier to search for his missing brother and became embroiled in the search for a missing cache of heroin.