Issue Instance
API endpoint that allows Issue to be viewed.
GET /api/issue/13559/?format=api
{ "api_url": "https://www.comics.org/api/issue/13559/?format=api", "series_name": "Batman (1940 series)", "descriptor": "108", "number": "108", "volume": "", "variant_name": "", "title": "", "publication_date": "June 1957", "key_date": "1957-06-00", "price": "0.10 USD", "page_count": "36.000", "editing": "Whitney Ellsworth (credited) (editor)", "indicia_publisher": "National Comics Publications Inc.", "brand_emblem": "Superman DC National Comics", "isbn": "", "barcode": "", "rating": "Approved by the Comics Code Authority", "on_sale_date": "1957-04-14", "indicia_frequency": "monthly, with the exception of January, May, July, and November", "notes": "On-sale date from copyright registration.", "variant_of": null, "series": "https://www.comics.org/api/series/141/?format=api", "indicia_printer": "Printed in U.S.A.", "keywords": "", "story_set": [ { "type": "cover", "title": "The Career of Batman Jones!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 0, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "Sheldon Moldoff", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Ira Schnapp", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "Batman, look! Batman Jones is answering the Bat-Signal, too!", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Batman Jones", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Inker credit verified by Paris. Letterer credit from Martin O'Hearn and Joe Desris.", "keywords": "Bat-cycle; Bat-Signal; Batmobile" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Wilson Chemical Company Cloverine Brand Salve", "sequence_number": 1, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "? (photo)", "inks": "? (photo)", "colors": "None", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "Boys! Girls! Ladies! Men! Given! Given! yes, we give you premiums or cash", "characters": "Yogi Berra (photo)", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Inside front cover.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Big Batman Quiz", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 2, "page_count": "8.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "Sheldon Moldoff", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Pat Gordon", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "Great scott! Garth has thrown the switch that recreates the destruction of ancient Pompeii!", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Frank Davis (gameshow contestant, death); Mr. Walsh (TV producer); Joe Harmon (villain, TV host); Garth (villain, convict)", "synopsis": "Batman appears on a TV game show to verify answers of a contestant, who dies after deducing the Caped Crusader's true identity.", "notes": "Inker credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "", "feature": "Warden Willis", "sequence_number": 3, "page_count": "0.670", "script": "Henry Boltinoff", "pencils": "Henry Boltinoff", "inks": "Henry Boltinoff", "colors": "?", "letters": "Henry Boltinoff", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "humor", "first_line": "This package came special delivery for you!", "characters": "Warden Willis; Prisoner #6442", "synopsis": "A prisoner receives a package, and the warden later visits his cell to see what he got. His friend sends him travel posters to hang on the cell block walls.", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comics-form advertising", "title": "Wings and Winnie Winchester Do a Good Deed", "feature": "Winchester Roller Skates", "sequence_number": 4, "page_count": "0.330", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "?; typeset", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "adventure", "first_line": "Mommie needs a doctor!", "characters": "Wings; Winnie", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Ad for Winchester Super Speed roller skates.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "public service announcement", "title": "Worldwide Adventures in Science!", "feature": "", "sequence_number": 5, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "Jack Schiff ?", "pencils": "Ruben Moreira", "inks": "Ruben Moreira", "colors": "?", "letters": "Ira Schnapp", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "non-fiction; advocacy", "first_line": "What makes weather?", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "This PSA is produced in sequential comics-art style.", "keywords": "Operation Deep Freeze; satellite" }, { "type": "promo (ad from the publisher)", "title": "You'll Want to Join Up with Sgt.Bilko", "feature": "Sgt. Bilko", "sequence_number": 6, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "?", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "Sgt. Bilko", "synopsis": "", "notes": "The ad features the cover artwork from Sergeant Bilko issue #1.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "Prisoners of the Bat-Cave", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 7, "page_count": "6.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "Sheldon Moldoff", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Pat Gordon", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "We can't get out... we're trapped in our own headquarters!", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; unnamed Governor; Roddy (a framed prisoner); Len Paul (villain)", "synopsis": "Trapped by a malfunctioning time-lock, the Caped Crusaders actually solve a murder mystery while confined, but must find a way to get the evidence to the Governor in time to prevent an innocent man's execution!", "notes": "Inker credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "Bat-Cave; Gotham City" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "", "feature": "Casey the Cop", "sequence_number": 8, "page_count": "0.500", "script": "Henry Boltinoff", "pencils": "Henry Boltinoff", "inks": "Henry Boltinoff", "colors": "?", "letters": "Henry Boltinoff", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "humor", "first_line": "Owch! Help! Police!", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "oak leaf" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Palisades Amusement Park Admission", "sequence_number": 9, "page_count": "0.500", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "?", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "Be my guest at Palisades Amusement Park, New Jersey.", "characters": "Superman", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "text article", "title": "Wits Are Their Only Weapons", "feature": "", "sequence_number": 10, "page_count": "2.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "? (spot illustration)", "inks": "? (spot illustration)", "colors": "? (spot illustration)", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "non-fiction; detective-mystery", "first_line": "Hello there, stranger.", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Career of Batman Jones", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 11, "page_count": "10.000", "script": "Bill Finger", "pencils": "Sheldon Moldoff", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Pat Gordon", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "I can stop this mechanical clown easily, Batman--by hurling your batarang at its rear control-panel!", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Batman Jones (introduction); Jones' parents (introduction); gang of crooks (villains, introduction for all)", "synopsis": "Having saved a young couple from a serious car accident, Batman is pleased to learn the couple have named their young son after him. But his problems begin when the young boy wants to also become a crime fighter.", "notes": "Writer credit by Martin O'Hearn. Inker credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "Gotham City" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "", "feature": "Casey the Cop", "sequence_number": 12, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "Henry Boltinoff (signed as Henry Boltinoff)", "pencils": "Henry Boltinoff (signed as Henry Boltinoff)", "inks": "Henry Boltinoff (signed as Henry Boltinoff)", "colors": "?", "letters": "Henry Boltinoff", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "humor", "first_line": "Look how he's swinging that hammer!", "characters": "Casey the Cop", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "Amazing Precision Miniature Secret Camera", "feature": "Miniature [Midget, Mini, Spy, Secret Spy, Mycro] Camera", "sequence_number": 13, "page_count": "0.500", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "Take secret pictures! Easily carried in the palm of your hand ---", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Sold by Honor House Products.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "16MM Double Feature Talking Films", "feature": "16mm Movie Projector with Sound", "sequence_number": 14, "page_count": "0.500", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "Show Exciting New Sound Films in Your Own Home", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Ad for 16mm films featuring Mickey Mouse Club and Donald Duck in the illustrations, from Honor House Products.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Stephens Credit Sales Mottoes", "sequence_number": 15, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "None", "letters": "?", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "Do you want spending money? Sell these popular Patriotic and Religious Mottoes", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Inside back cover.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "A New Scientific Toy!", "feature": "Nutty Putty", "sequence_number": 16, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "Nutty Putty... real crazy!!! A liquid solid!", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Back cover.", "keywords": "" } ], "cover": "https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/2/w400/2570.jpg" }
