Issue Instance
API endpoint that allows Issue to be viewed.
GET /api/issue/14858/?format=api
{ "api_url": "https://www.comics.org/api/issue/14858/?format=api", "series_name": "Batman (1940 series)", "descriptor": "121", "number": "121", "volume": "", "variant_name": "", "title": "", "publication_date": "February 1959", "key_date": "1959-02-00", "price": "0.10 USD", "page_count": "36.000", "editing": "Whitney Ellsworth (credited) (editor); Jack Schiff (actual editor); Murray Boltinoff (actual associate editor); George Kashdan (actual associate 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": "1958-12-02", "indicia_frequency": "monthly, with the exception of January, May, July, and November", "notes": "On-sale date from copyright registration. Actual editor info per dccomicsartists.com/dchistory/DCHISTORY-3.htm", "variant_of": null, "series": "https://www.comics.org/api/series/141/?format=api", "indicia_printer": "", "keywords": "", "story_set": [ { "type": "cover", "title": "The Ice Crimes of Mr. Zero!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 0, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "Curt Swan", "inks": "Stan Kaye", "colors": "?", "letters": "Ira Schnapp", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "And now I'll have the most valuable live trophies...", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Mr. Zero (later re-named Mr. Freeze)", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Letterer credit by Martin O'Hearn and Joe Desris.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "public service announcement", "title": "The Magic Card!", "feature": "", "sequence_number": 1, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "Jack Schiff", "pencils": "Bernard Baily", "inks": "Bernard Baily", "colors": "None", "letters": "?", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "advocacy", "first_line": "Hi, everybody!", "characters": "Pete", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Found on the inside front cover.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Body in the Bat-Cave", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 2, "page_count": "7.670", "script": "Bill Finger", "pencils": "Sheldon Moldoff", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Stan Starkman", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "Robin, somewhere there's a killer in the Bat-Cave...", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alec Wyre (villain, inventor, death); Jigger Mulane (villain); Dan Dolson (villain); Hank Purdy (villain, gangster)", "synopsis": "As Bruce and Dick head for the Bat-Cave to change to their other identities, they discover the dead body of a man known for selling secrets to the underworld. Batman and Robin therefore must discover if this man sold the secret location of the Bat-Cave to underworld thugs.", "notes": "Script credit by Martin O'Hearn and inker credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "Bat-Cave; Bat-Roost; Batmobile; Gotham City; Wayne Mansion" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Tootsie Roll", "sequence_number": 3, "page_count": "0.330", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "promo (ad from the publisher)", "title": "Just One Second!", "feature": "The Flash", "sequence_number": 4, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "?", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "", "feature": "Warden Willis", "sequence_number": 5, "page_count": "2.000", "script": "Henry Boltinoff (signed)", "pencils": "Henry Boltinoff (signed)", "inks": "Henry Boltinoff (signed)", "colors": "?", "letters": "Henry Boltinoff", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "humor", "first_line": "You three prisoners have volunteered for a medical research experiment...", "characters": "Warden Willis", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "Crime Rides the Rails", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 6, "page_count": "7.670", "script": "Bill Finger", "pencils": "Sheldon Moldoff", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Ira Schnapp", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "An unsung hero of the nation's law enforcement agencies is...", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Wilson (a railroad Policeman); Duds Dekker (villain); Dekker's mob (villains)", "synopsis": "Criminals derail a circus train so that animals get loose and the Caped Crusaders have to deal with that problem while gang members attempt to free their boss from a prison train.", "notes": "Script credit by Martin O'Hearn, inker credit verified by Paris, and letterer credit by Martin O'Hearn and Joe Desris.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Tootsie [all other candies]", "sequence_number": 7, "page_count": "0.330", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "text story", "title": "Homicide in Hollywood", "feature": "", "sequence_number": 8, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "None", "inks": "None", "colors": "None", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "crime", "first_line": "The body of Phil Ajax, the Hollywood agent, had been...", "characters": "Phil Ajax; Lt. Galt; Barry Kilian", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "", "feature": "Shorty", "sequence_number": 9, "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": "Ice skating on the lake!", "characters": "Shorty", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "statement of ownership", "title": "", "feature": "", "sequence_number": 10, "page_count": "0.330", "script": "?", "pencils": "None", "inks": "None", "colors": "None", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Ice Crimes of Mr. Zero", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 11, "page_count": "8.670", "script": "Dave Wood", "pencils": "Sheldon Moldoff", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Ira Schnapp", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "A cunning mind had devised a fantastic method to utilize cold for...", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Mr. Zero (villain, introduction, origin, later called Mr. Freeze); Mr. Zero's henchmen [Marty; Gus; Kirk; Luke] (villains)", "synopsis": "A scientist accidentally falls victim to the effects of an experiment, making him a virtual \"human icicle,\" a foe who puts the chill on Batman and Robin.", "notes": "Script credit by Martin O'Hearn and inker credit verified by Paris.\r\n\r\nLetterer credit by Craig Delich.", "keywords": "Bat-Copter; Bat-Signal; Batmobile; Gotham City" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Tootsie [all other candies]", "sequence_number": 12, "page_count": "0.330", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "Mystery of the Golden Bean Bag!", "feature": "", "sequence_number": 13, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "Julius Schwartz", "pencils": "Morris Waldinger", "inks": "Tom Nicolosi", "colors": "?", "letters": "Milt Snapinn", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "adventure; western-frontier", "first_line": "One night, near Thumb Butte, Arizona, where two prospectors had set up camp...", "characters": "Bill", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "Arizona" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Stephens Credit Sales Mottoes", "sequence_number": 14, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "?", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Jowett Institute of Physical Training", "sequence_number": 15, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "None", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Inside back cover.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "150 Civil War Soldiers", "sequence_number": 16, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Back cover.", "keywords": "" } ], "cover": "https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/2/w400/2583.jpg" }