The “Captain America” pilot is absolutely hilarious. Reb Brown is artist Steve Rogers. He’s tall and brawny, but he walks like a Neanderthal man and looks a tad dim.

Back in the 1940s, Steve’s dad was the legendary hero Captain America. Bad guys are looking for the late Rogers Senior’s secrets and they try to kill poor Steve. Dr. Simon Mills (Len Birman) saves Steve by injecting the mysterious FLAG serum into him. This gives Steve super powers -- unlike the Steve Rogers in the comics and in Joe Johnston’s new movie, Reb Brown’s Steve already is a beefcake before the experiment.

When the motorcyclist Johnny Blaze finds that his father Barton Blaze has a terminal cancer, he accepts a pact with the Mephistopheles, giving his soul for the health of his beloved father. But the devil deceives him, and Barton dies in a motorcycle accident during an exhibition. Johnny leaves the carnival, his town, his friends and his girlfriend Roxanne. Years later Johnny Blaze becomes a famous motorcyclist, who risks his life in his shows, and he meets Roxanne again, now a TV reporter.

Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-MEN.