Five members of the Flash's Rogues Gallery - Captain Boomerang, Captain Cold, Heat Wave, the Mirror Master III and the Weather Wizard - are approached with an offer by Abra Kadabra, who had become an agent of the demon Neron in exchange for true magical powers to replace his technology-based magic. Abra Kadabra persuades them to cause havoc by destroying five targets simultaneously, with the promise of " 'respect' " and " 'a guarantee that they would be remembered forever, not as has-beens but as the most infamous villains of their age' ". But Neron's deals are demonic, twisted and unfair and they were not told that their actions would cost them their lives and unleash Neron onto the Earth. All five are killed in the ensuing explosions, forming a pentagram which releases Neron.