Comic Title: Demon #5
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: November 1990
On Sale Date: September 18, 1990 Shipping Date September 18, 1990
Source: Previews, #19

Shipping Date September 18, 1990
Source: Amazing Heroes, #183

Direct Market Date September 20, 1990
Source: Comic Shop News, #167, #168

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 32
Editor: Dan Raspler

Title: "The Scheme of Things"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Demon (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Alan Grant
Penciller: Val Semeiks
Inker: Denis Rodier
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Kurston Halpin

Feature Character(s)

• Demon (last appearance in Demon #4; next appearance in Demon #6)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jason Blood (last appearance in Demon #4; next appearance in Demon #6)
• Merlin (last appearance in Demon #4; next appearance in Demon #6)
• Harry Matthews (last appearance in Demon #4; next appearance in Demon #6)

Villain(s)

• Lucifer Morningstar (last appearance in Sandman #4; next appearance in Demon #6)
• Belial (last appearance in Demon #4; next appearance in Demon #6)
• Abaddon (last appearance in Demon #3; next appearance in Demon #6)
• Beelzebub (last appearance in Swamp Thing #98; next appearance in Demon #6)
• Klarion (last appearance in Demon #4; next appearance in Demon #7)
• Teekl (last appearance in Demon #4; next appearance in Demon #8)
• Raan Va Dath (last appearance in Demon #3; next appearance in Demon #6)
• Etrigan's demon army (next appearance in Demon #6)

Other Character(s)

• Dick Jaynes (first name revealed; last appearance in Demon #4; next appearance in Demon #8)
• Janet Jaynes (Dick's wife; next appearance in Demon #8)

Comments:
Jason Blood's history is recapped in flashback. This flashback makes it clear that Jason Blood had a human existence before Merlin used him as a cage for Etrigan. This differs from the pre-Crisis version in which Merlin conjured Jason Blood as shown in Demon #1.

This story is continued from Demon #4 and continues in Demon #6.

Synopsis:
Etrigan gathers an army of demons to help his plan to take over as ruler of Hell. His father Belial will wait and see how the war proceeds before choosing a side. In the meantime, Jason Blood's memory is refreshed by Harry Matthews. The two then seek out Merlin who seeks to stop the impending war. His first plan is to keep Jason awake to keep Etrigan from emerging.

Back in Gotham City, Klarion keep the district attorney a prisoner in his own home while he begins his own schemes.