Master Man became a favorite of Adolf Hitler. When Warrior Woman arrived on the scene, Hitler hastily decided that she should marry Master Man, who readily agreed. Warrior Woman considered Master Man to be a blundering oaf, and she scorned him. At her leader’s command, however, she reluctantly agreed to the marriage.

After the wedding ceremony, and as part of the celebration, Hitler planned to execute the Invaders, who had recently been captured with the help of Master Man and Warrior Woman. The final vows were never spoken, however, because Union Jack and Spitfire arrived on the scene and rescued the Invaders. Although Hitler himself proclaimed Master Man and Warrior Woman to be man and wife, the fact remains that they never actually spoke their wedding vows, and it could be argued that they were never legally married.

As the allied guns pounded Berlin near the close of the war, Master Man and Warrior Woman were placed in suspended animation in separate, secret laboratories within the city. Through the foresight of Baron Strucker, these two hidden facilities had been built for this very purpose. Baron Strucker knew that Hitler’s regime would fall, so he devised a way for the two greatest warriors of the war to be preserved, ensuring that “the dream” would be reborn in the future.

After Baron Strucker’s funding ran out, Herr Nacht took over the financing of Master Man and Warrior Woman’s preservation. Herr Nacht’s father was involved in the project from the beginning, over 40 years ago. Over those years, the project was technically managed by Doktor Kraus, a German scientist whose life had been saved by Herr Nacht’s father.

Recently, with the reunification of Germany, Herr Nacht decided it was time to awaken the slumbering warriors. Because Master Man’s preservation unit was hidden on the west side of Berlin before the war ended, he was continually monitored by Doktor Kraus, and was easily revived. On the other hand, Warrior Woman was secured on the east side of Berlin, and was separated when the Berlin Wall was erected. Although automated machines kept her in suspended animation, it was believed by Doktor Kraus that she would suffer brain damage when awakened. Master Man was willing to take the risk, and threatened Doktor Kraus with bodily harm if he did not quickly and successfully revive his beloved. In order to ensure success, Doktor Kraus gave Warrior Woman a transfusion of artificial blood from the android Human Torch, who had recently been kidnapped by Kraus’s thugs.

As Doktor Kraus was reviving Warrior Woman, Namor the Sub-Mariner broke into the lab and began a battle with Master Man I. As Namor was about to defeat Master Man, he was knocked unconscious by Warrior Woman, who had been successfully revived.

After Namor was securely placed in a containment device in the laboratory, Doktor Kraus took Master Man and Warrior Woman to meet their mysterious benefactor, Herr Nacht, who revealed his plans to place himself as the leader of the New Reich. The meeting was in terrupted by an alarm—Namor had broken free.

Herr Nacht convinced Master Man to return to the lab alone and fight Namor. With Master Man gone, Herr Nacht expressed his love for Warrior Woman, and persuaded her to leave her husband.

Back in the lab, Namor was defeating Master Man and Doktor Kraus’s thugs with the help of Namorita, Union Jack, and the elderly Lady Crichton, who had been the costumed hero called Spitfire during World War II. During the fight, Master Man I inexplicably reverted to his true form as the weakling Willie Lohmer. At that moment, Herr Nacht arrived in costume as Master Man II, with Warrior Woman at his side. Overwrought at losing his powers and being rejected by his beloved, Willie Lohmer threw a switch that blew up the lab along with himself, Warrior Woman, Master Man II, and most of the thugs. No bodies were every recovered, however. Presumably, Willie Lohmer survived the blast. Whether or not he will regain his powers remains to be seen.