Plot
Steve Rogers (Reb Brown) is a former Marine whose late father was a government agent in the 1940s. His father's patriotic attitude earned him the nickname "Captain America".
Rogers, now making a living as an artist and traveling the countryside in a conversion van, is inspired by his father's story to sketch a superhero. He is critically injured from an attempt on his life.
He is administered an experimental serum called the FLAG formula, an acronym for "Full Latent Ability Gain" — a kind of "super-steroid" — which Rogers' father had developed from his own glands. The formula saves his life and enhances his strength and reflexes. These new abilities inspire Dr. Simon Mills (Len Birman), the research biochemist and intelligence official behind FLAG, to recruit Steve and give him a costume based on his drawing.
It is revealed that the villain intends to destroy a community with a neutron bomb. When Captain America stops the truck transporting it and diverts an exhaust into the trailer to subdue any guards inside, he finds out that the villain was inside wearing a deadman's switch detonator to the bomb measuring his heartbeat and is seriously affected by carbon monoxide poisoning. Captain America and Dr. Mills have to apply emergency first aid and are successful in keeping the villain alive so that detonator can be safely removed.
Rogers decides to become the same Captain America his father had been, donning a uniform identical to the one his father had worn: the "classic" Captain America uniform.
The elements of the TV movies were slightly emulated in the Captain America comic book series.
In issue #237, Rogers establishes himself as a commercial artist. [5] Although his professional career has waxed and waned in its depiction, it is permanently established in later works like The Adventures of Captain America that Rogers was a Fine Arts student specializing in illustration in the 1930s, working in the Works Progress Administration's Federal Arts Project before he was recruited into Project Rebirth. [6]
In issue #259, a young man that Captain America redeemed from associating with a criminal gang built a custom high-performance motorcycle in gratitude, which became a signature vehicle of the character for years. Apart from having considerable speed, the design is standard apart from its American Flag paint motif. [7]
In issue #318, Rogers receives a specially customized conversion van courtesy of King T'Challa of Wakanda aka The Black Panther. The van has special communications equipment, an extendable periscope, a sleeping bunk when Rogers is travelling, a special frame so Rogers can launch from the van while riding his motorcycle, and has a special paint that can instantly change colors when Rogers desires it for stealth purposes. [8]
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