An aging Paul Reid is looking at scrapbooks of old Green Hornet newspaper clippings. October 4, 1967: The bombing of a bank announces the debut of a new version of a dead criminal, Inferno. 1949: A madman calling himself Inferno was burning various and apparently unrelated targets. Even as the first Hornet/Kato team closed in on him, another masked hero, the Dark Agent, got there first, and a great explosion seemed to take two lives. Now the name and style are being used by someone else, who seems to strike only financial institutions. At a meeting of crime bosses, the Green Hornet tells the others that he suspects that the cash, securities, etc., are being removed first, and they agree to work together to stop Inferno. A shadowy figure has been watching the meeting, however. The Daily Express finds an aging ex-convict who claims he knows all about Inferno, but he is killed at a press conference before he can say anything specific. A check of his background gives Britt what he needs to find another original Inferno hireling, however, who talks quickly, his information leading to the true identities of both madmen, and a confrontation that results in Inferno II's capture and a meeting between the Hornet and the Dark Agent, who barely survived his encounter with the original Inferno.

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