Issue Details

Issue	#15
Published	[August] 1999
Cover Price	6.95 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Bill Black
Notes	Highly unusual issue in that most of the content is articles rather than stories. Publication date from comicslistdatabase.com.

Cover Details

Characters	Captain 3-D
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Mort Meskin
Inks	Bill Black
Notes	recreated from an ad for the unpublished Captain 3-D #2.

1 page Fighting American cover reprint (on interior page)

Characters	Fighting American; Speedboy
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Jack Kirby
Letters	Howard Ferguson
Reprinted	from Fighting American (Prize, 1954 series) #1 (April-May 1954)

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Men of Mystery No. 15: Salute to Simon and Kirby!"

Characters	Captain 3-D; Joe Simon (photo); Jack Kirby (photo)
Script	Bill Black
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Bill Black
Letters	typeset

2 page Captain 3-D text article "Captain 3-D and Me"

Characters	Captain 3-D
Script	Jeff Gelb
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Joe Simon
Letters	typeset

5 page text article "Captain 3-D Comics"

Characters	Captain 3-D
Script	Bill Black
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Letters	typeset
Notes	Description of the contents of Captain 3-D #1

10 page Captain 3-D story "Menace of the Living Dolls"

Characters	Captain 3-D; Danny Davis; The Phantom Thief; Tigra; Skweel; Grone; the Paper Doll Men
Synopsis	A phantom thief with powers like Captain 3-D's causes Danny to lose trust in his hero.
Genre	superhero
Script	Jack Kirby
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Mort Meskin; Steve Ditko and others
Letters	Ben Oda?
Reprinted	from Captain 3-D (Harvey, 1953 series) #1 (December 1953)

2 page text article "Creating and Re-creating Captain 3-D!"

Characters	Captain 3-D
Script	Bill Black
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Bill Black
Letters	typeset

1 page text article "The Simon & Kirby 3-D Effort"

Script	Joe Simon
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Mort Meskin
Letters	typeset
Reprinted	from The Comic Book Makers (Crestwood II, 1990) Pages 126 and 128

1 page text article "What Happened to Captain 3-D No. 2?"

Characters	Captain 3-D
Synopsis	The history of the unpublished Captain 3-D #2
Script	Bill Black
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Letters	typeset

5 page Captain 3-D story "Challenge of the Speed Demon"

Characters	Captain 3-D; Be Bop Bendix; Margie Moran; Danny Davis; Happy Herkimer
Synopsis	BeBop Bendix has no time for anything but racing. To help out Margie Moran the Captain and Danny have to arrange for BeBop to be beaten in a race so he'll pay attention to her instead.
Genre	superhero
Script	Mort Meskin ?
Pencils	Mort Meskin
Inks	Bill Black (pp1, 6, 7 and 10)
Letters	AC Comics staff
Notes	10 pages of art printed sideways, two to a comic page. Mostly in pencil. Unpublished art intended for Captain 3-D No. 2

1 page text article "The Legacy of Captain 3-D!"

Script	Bill Black
Pencils	Bill Black
Inks	Bill Black
Letters	typeset

Half page text article "Enter the Dimension Man"

Script	Ronn Foss
Pencils	Ronn Foss
Inks	Ronn Foss
Letters	typeset

1 page text article "The Grass Green Connection"

Script	Grass Green
Pencils	Grass Green
Inks	Grass Green
Letters	typeset

1 page text article "The Hour of the 3-D Man"

Script	Roy Thomas
Pencils	Alan Kupperberg (layouts); Bill Black
Inks	Bill Black
Letters	typeset

2 page text article "Triple Threat! Bill Black's Three Dimensional Heroes"

Script	Stephanie Sanderson
Pencils	Mike Machlan
Inks	Jerry Ordway
Letters	typeset

7 page text article "Bullseye"

Script	Bill Cosgrove; Bill Black
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Letters	typeset

6 page text article "Meet Fighting American"

Script	Mike Kidson
Pencils	Bill Black (recreation of Jack Kirby)
Inks	Bill Black
Letters	typeset

3 page text article "Whatta Ya Know, Joe?"

Script	Bill Black; Joe Simon
Pencils	Joe Simon
Letters	typeset

4 page text article "Samson and Delilah at Boys' Ranch"

Script	R. C. Harvey
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Joe Simon
Letters	Typeset

9 page Black Owl story "Death Goes to Sea in a Million Dollar Yacht"

Characters	The Black Owl [Doug Danville]; The Whistler (villain; death)
Genre	superhero
Script	Jack Kirby
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Jack Kirby
Letters	Jack Kirby
Reprinted	from Prize Comics (1940 series) #8 (January 1941)