Dick Jones was ex-All American fullback, ex-collegiate boxing, wrestling and fencing champ.

[5] Jones and eleven other heroes, such as Blue Blade, the first Electro and the Black Widow, are in Berlin during the last days of World War 2.

Purely by chance they assemble and investigate the headquarters of the S.S. As part of a plot to reinvigorate the Nazis, they are captured and placed in suspended animation.

Jones notices oddities, such as a female nurse having earring holes and wearing bizarre stockings.

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