Inferno (Joseph Conroy)
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| Inferno | |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | (as Inferno) Avengers #192 (Feb 1980) |
| Created by | David Michelinie and Sal Buscema |
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| Alter ego | Joseph Conroy |
Inferno is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.
[edit] Fictional character biography
Joseph Conroy was a steel worker who worked at a steel mill visited by Thor. Thor's magical uru hammer had been damaged following a battle with the Destroyer, so he stopped in to use the Paretta Steel Mill's machinery to repair it. Conroy found a flake of the hammer and used it as a good luck chain.
When the steel mill fell under Maggia control, Conroy threatened to expose Paretta to the police. To keep him quiet, Paretta ordered another employee to push Conroy into a vat of electrified, white-hot liquid metal. Conroy was mutated by the combination of the molten steel and the mystical uru chip he wore around his neck, and as a result he was transformed into a superhumanly strong humanoid creature composed of flaming "living slag" who could radiate intense heat and drain energy from power sources. Wonder Man and Iron Man, who had been visiting the steel mill, tried to oppose Inferno but he defeated them and chased Paretta through Pittsburgh. The Avengers tried to stop him but could not defeat him. When Captain America promised that Paretta would go to jail, Inferno was satisfied and killed himself by walking into a nearby river.
Later, the Grim Reaper resurrected a number of former Avengers foes as pawns, Inferno included. Inferno attacked Crystal, but before he could kill her the Grim Reaper lost control of his pawns, and was drawn by Lloigoroth into a dimensional vortex along with Inferno and the rest of the Legion of the Unliving.
