Der Roter Adler und der Schwarzer Bar

During the Cold War, after the Berlin Wall was built, Heinz Stubenburg and his wife tried to sneak into West Germany from East Berlin. Heinz was lucky; his wife was not. Heinz became the vigilante Schwarzer Adler (Black Eagle), operating on both sides of the wall in order to fight crime, counter spies from the East, and help East Germans escape to the West.
In 1988, in his fifties and feeling less needed after the start of the perestroika, the Black Eagle finally retired and remarried. In 2003, after an OVERTHROW bombing that claimed his new wife among its victims, Heinz recruited a young man who had lost his parents during the same event to become the new protector of the city of Berlin. The young man, Konrad Prinz became der Röter Adler (the Red Eagle) to honor Heinz’s former identity. With support from Stubenburg and his small organization of informants and contacts inside the police and local government, der Röter Adler soon became the new scourge of the city’s criminals. In 2010, after Stubenburg died from a heart attack, the Red Eagle recruited a former college athlete as a sidekick. Paul Mohr, a young mutant gifted with super strength, became der Schwarzer Bär (the Black Bear), second protector of Berlin.