Issue Instance
API endpoint that allows Issue to be viewed.
GET /api/issue/14957/?format=api
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Courses", "sequence_number": 1, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "None", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Inside front cover.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Secret of the Everglades", "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": "", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Joe Osceola (Seminole Indian); tribal members; Ponce DeLeon (explorer, mention only); Mike Briggs (villain, trapper); Brigg's henchmen (villains)", "synopsis": "While vacationing in Florida, Batman and Robin save the life of a Seminole Indian who has discovered a cache of valuable artifacts once belonging to a famed explorer that a group of thugs are after.", "notes": "Script credit by Martin O'Hearn. 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