Issue Instance
API endpoint that allows Issue to be viewed.
GET /api/issue/10873/?format=api
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Dick says they need to change and head for Police HQ...but if one looks closely, Dick is sitting there already in his yellow cape & black mask!", "keywords": "Bat-Cave; Bat-Signal; Matinoor Diamond" }, { "type": "activity", "title": "", "feature": "Quick Quiz", "sequence_number": 3, "page_count": "0.500", "script": "Horace Elmo", "pencils": "Horace Elmo", "inks": "Horace Elmo", "colors": "?", "letters": "Horace Elmo", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "How hard must the wind blow to be called a hurricane?", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Letterer credit by Craig Delich.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Sky Bar", "sequence_number": 4, "page_count": "0.500", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "?", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "public service announcement", "title": "Binky Says: \"Give Your Pet All the Breaks!\"", "feature": "Binky", "sequence_number": 5, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "Jack Schiff", "pencils": "Win Mortimer", "inks": "Win Mortimer", "colors": "?", "letters": "Ira Schnapp", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "advocacy; teen", "first_line": "Gee, Binky, what's wrong with Sport?", "characters": "Binky Biggs; Allergy; Sport (dog); Jim", "synopsis": "Binky and Allergy don't understand why Sport is acting like he is.", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Batman of Yesterday!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 6, "page_count": "9.670", "script": "Bill Finger", "pencils": "Bob Kane (Batman and Robin figures only); Lew Sayre Schwartz", "inks": "Ray Burnley", "colors": "?", "letters": "Pat Gordon", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Professor Carter Nichols; Captain Lightfoot [Abel Adams] (introduction); Walter Fraley (villain, introduction); Hugo Vorney (villain, introduction)", "synopsis": "After a train has been robbed of a valuable gold shipment, a suspected criminal comes forward saying that he found gold in treasure that was buried 200 years ago. Determined to prove he is lying, Batman and Robin travel back to 1753 to find where the treasure is really buried and encounter a masked hero of the past.", "notes": "Penciler credits verified by Schwartz. 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But the island is controlled by the murderous pirate Lars Veking, and Batman and Robin find unexpected brothers-in-arms in the form of the prisoners they are escorting. One by one, the prisoners use their criminal talents to help defeat Veking. Afterwards, the prisoners turn on Batman and Robin, who are forced to flee. The prisoners steal Veking's submarine and head for the mainland, only to find the Police waiting for them. Batman and Robin were stowaways in the torpedo tubes!", "notes": "Penciler credit verified by Sprang and inker credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "pirates; submarine" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "", "feature": "Jerry the Jitterbug", "sequence_number": 16, "page_count": "0.670", "script": "Henry Boltinoff (signed)", "pencils": "Henry Boltinoff (signed)", "inks": "Henry Boltinoff (signed)", "colors": "?", "letters": "Henry Boltinoff", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "humor; teen", "first_line": "Wait till you see what I got for my birthday!", "characters": "Jerry the Jitterbug", "synopsis": "Jerry shows off a pipe that he received as a birthday gift.", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Scripto", "sequence_number": 17, "page_count": "0.330", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Friendship Studios, Inc.", "sequence_number": 18, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Motor's Auto Repair Manual", "sequence_number": 19, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "None", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Inside back cover.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Cracker Jack", "sequence_number": 20, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Back cover.", "keywords": "" } ], "cover": "https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/2/w400/2541.jpg" }
