The Blue Devil suit performed perfectly -- even better than Cassidy had expected! The footage shot on Ile Du Diable looked fantastic. Things were going great, until a couple of dopey crew members by the names of Sharon Scott and Wayne Tarrant released an immensely powerful monster by the name of Nebiros. Nebiros, looking for some fast food, chased the two back to the production site. Sharon, seeking out Danny, convinced the master stuntman to use the Blue Devil suit to protect her and the crew from the Hell-spawned terror. Seeing the logic inherent in her request and the love behind her tear-filled eyes, Dan faced-off with Nebiros in a fight to end all fights.

Nebiros, who assumed the special effects master to be a fellow demon, took his fair share of abuse as he strove to understand the meaning behind his "little brother's" defiance. Dan was beating Nebiros for a while, but Nebiros was truly out of his league. The demon zapped the Devil with a blast intended to drain his occult energy. Dan went down and during that time was assumed dead. It inspired quite a bit of heroism from his comrades which basically amounted to a drop in the bucket, Nebiros was nigh invincible as far as the production crew was concerned.

But Danny returned to consciousness and seeing the monster carrying away his beautiful co-star, Sharon, went ballistic. Through sheer force of will, he eventually drove Nebiros back into the dimensional portal from which he had escaped, but Dan was pulled free just before his friends resealed it. But all too late, unfortunately.

Danny felt groggy and disoriented. His body tingled. Not only that, but his suit was sweating. Getting back to his trailer, Dan attempted to remove his costume only to discover he could no more do so than rip off his own skin. The Blue Devil outfit had become grafted onto his body somehow when Nebiros blasted Danny during the battle and almost killed him.

Getting back to the States after production at Ile Du Diable wrapped, Marla took Danny to see a specialist named Doctor Duprey who confirmed their suspicions. The devil suit was no longer a suit. The latex of the costume had become organic and bonded to the stuntman's skin. And being organic, of course, it grew blood vessels, nerves, and all sorts of other disgusting dermal components.

Truly upset by what he had become, Danny wanted nothing more than to wallow in self-pity for the rest of his days. He certainly never had any intention of becoming a hero, of all things. But like so many others before him, Cassidy discovered that when you are granted a deal of power, as he was, it becomes almost impossible not to use it for one reason or another.

Almost as soon as he arrived in Metropolis, a super-villain known as Shockwave came knocking at Dan's door. And when Shockwave knocked, the entire building collapsed. He pulled the building down to create a means by which he could escape the authorities after having stolen a batch of super-kryptonite from S.T.A.R. Labs. Dan, seriously peeved at the destruction of his brownstone and the cockiness displayed by Shockwave, and having been told that the criminal had stolen something that might be used to hurt Superman, took on the fight and beat Shockwave nine ways till Sunday. Still, the villain escaped, but not before the Blue Devil could recover the stolen canister and save the day. It was then that he began to realize that heroism came naturally to him. And while never truly accepting the nomenclature of the "super-hero," Dan began to accept his lot in life and to do so with vigor.

As payment for a job well done, Dr. Jeanette Klyburn, Director of S.T.A.R. Labs, agreed to aid Dan Cassidy in his quest to remove himself from the Blue Devil outfit. After running scads of examinations on him, however, it was decided he should not hold onto any great hope of ever being free of the costume. His organic structure had bonded on the sub molecular level with the mechanisms of the suit. And if coping with the bad news weren't bad enough, the mechanical menace known as Metallo barged in on them and tried to take over the world.

The Blue Devil later served as a member of Justice League America as part of a publicity stunt for an upcoming movie, but was eventually transformed into a true demon. Blue Devil, along with several ex-JLA'ers, accompanied Starman V into space in Starman #38, where he was killed by.

Resurrected by Faust during Judgment Day, the vastly more powerful Blue Devil joined in the battle to prevent the power of The Spectre from falling into the hands of either Neron or Zauriel, and later became one of the Sentinels of Magic.

Blue Devil was recently seen at a recruitment party for Titans L.A. (Titans Secret Files #2, Sept. '00), but nothing came of this.

Notes:

• When he was murdered by the Mist, Daniel Cassidy simply ceased to exist, his spirit lost until Faust resurrected him. Now reborn, Blue Devil has set about capturing the scores of demons released by Asmodel's failed coup.

• When he is not grasping the Trident, it reverts to a tattoo on Blue Devil's arm.