Soon after, Neron kills a priest who administers to the prisoners of Belle Reve Penitentiary and, disguised as him, offers a deal for the soul of one of the inmates (who is in search of revenge for the theft of a treasured calendar) in exchange for a gun. Neron himself had stolen the calendar in question to engineer the situation and he also makes offers to a number of key Belle Reve personnel or persuades or manipulates them in other ways to be absent that evening. The ensuing chaos allows 142 superpowered criminals to escape from Belle Reve. When it is all over, Neron claims the inmate's soul. Another member of the Rogues Gallery, the Trickster reads of the deaths of the five members of the Rogues Gallery, and determines not to waste any more time on petty crime but to finally make a major supervillain of himself. A week later another Rogue, the Rainbow Raider, shows the Trickster a carved candle he and other recently escaped supervillains had received, with instructions to light it at midnight on a certain day to " 'open the door to fame, power and glory' ". The Trickster steals the candle and, on lighting it, is instantly transported to Hell, joining about 50 other supervillains who had done the same. Neron appears to the gathered supervillains and offers them all their greatest desires in exchange for their souls, then introduces his " 'Inner Council' " - Abra Kadabra, Lex Luthor, Circe, Doctor Polaris and the Joker. The Fiddler figures out that Neron is the devil and the Trickster overhears him; then while several dozen of the supervillains accept Neron's offer, the rest are returned to Earth. At the end of Neron's speech and empowering session, Justice League member Blue Devil, who had worked out that the locations of the deaths of the five Rogues Gallery members formed a pentacle, appears. He is offered fame and fortune in exchange for performing a simple deed: the destruction of an electrical power station.