Smashing his way past Wonder Man, Inferno enters Vince Paretta’s office, finding Paretta and Turpin inside. The two men flee out a window, but Inferno pursues Turpin onto a river barge, which he burns free of its moorings. As the barge floats down the river, Inferno shows an Uru chip embedded in his right palm to the terrified Turpin. Recoiling in terror, Turpin slips off the end of the barge just as it strikes a bridge, and he is crushed between the two. Inferno wades to dry land and walks up onto the bridge, instinctively drawn to the fleeing Paretta, whose car is trapped in traffic on the structure. As bystanders flee in panic, the Avengers arrive, and while they battle Inferno, Paretta abandons his vehicle to escape on foot. Diverting the Avengers by derailing a trolley car, Inferno catches up with Paretta and shows him the Uru chip; Paretta begs for his life, admitting he had Conroy murdered for threatening to reveal to the cops that Paretta was involved with the Maggia. The arriving Avengers hear his confession, and Inferno, appearing satisfied that justice will be done, departs without a fight, seemingly committing suicide by submerging himself in the river.
Joe Conroy shows his work colleagues his lucky Uru chip, but is later knocked into a vat of molten metal by Tim Turpin, and is reborn as Inferno (Av #192, ’80).
Av #197, ’80 reveals that Frank Miller added detailing to Sal Buscema’s pencils in this issue. Inferno turns up in the Grim Reaper’s Legion of the Unliving in Av #353, ’92; however, when some of that Legion were later revealed to have never died, the Legion members were subsequently identified as normal human victims of the Reaper’s, reanimated as zombie imposters.
