Kingdom of France, 1550, in Bretagne.Philibert, robust fellow of twenty years, eldest son of a farmer of artichokes, is different from other boys of the village. Idealistic, naive, he predicted a glorious future in the artichoke and preserve her virginity for the woman he is not yet known but that God intended. Before passing away, his father tells him that it is not his real father. It was a gentleman, Fulgence Saint-Berendourt Avoise, assassinated by a Burgundian wine stain with a rose-shaped neck. His wallet full of ideals and artichokes, Philibert leaves his village and galloped towards Burgundy, accompanied by his servant Martin a little disingenuous. The courage of Philibert, charity, purity physical and moral well be put to the test against the meanness and venality of the villains and the temptation of women more libidinous each other ?

Bob Lee Swagger, one of the world s great marksmen and the son of a Congressional Medal of Honoree, is a loner living in the Rockies. He s left the military, having been hung out to dry in a secret Ethiopian mission a few years before, when he s recruited by a lisping colonel to help find a way that the President of the US might be assassinated in one of three cities in the next two weeks. He does his work, but the shot is fired notwithstanding and Bob Lee is quickly the fall guy: wounded and hunted by thousands, he goes to ground and, aided by two unlikely allies, searches for the truth and for those who double-crossed him. All roads lead back to Ethiopia.

It is 1942, America has entered World War II, and sickly but determined Steve Rogers is frustrated at being rejected yet again for military service. Everything changes when Dr. Erksine recruits him for the secret Project Rebirth. Proving his extraordinary courage, wits and conscience, Rogers undergoes the experiment and his weak body is suddenly enhanced into the maximum human potential. When Dr. Erksine is then immediately assassinated by an agent of Nazi Germany's head of its secret HYDRA research department, Johann Schmidt aka the Red Skull, Rogers is left as a unique man who is initially misused as a propaganda mascot. However, when his comrades need him, Rogers goes on a successful adventure that truly makes him Captain America and his war against Schmidt begins.