Issue Instance
API endpoint that allows Issue to be viewed.
GET /api/issue/15049/?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": "You may win a $430.00 scholarship in commercial art", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Inside front cover.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Invisible Batman", "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": "I can't see you now, Batman--but I will in a minute!", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Mrs. Dumone (President of the Gotham Community Chest); Smiley Gober (villain, smuggler); Smiley's gang (villains)", "synopsis": "Batman is subjected to an experimental light that renders him invisible. However, smuggler Smiley Gober finds a way to make the Caped Crusader visible: by throwing flour on him.", "notes": "Script credit from Martin O'Hearn. Inker credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "Gotham City" }, { "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": "A fisherman called \"Stinger\" Ray hooked a big one but it got away.", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "promo (ad from the publisher)", "title": "Your Passport to Strange Journeys...", "feature": "House of Mystery; My Greatest Adventure", "sequence_number": 4, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "?", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "public service announcement", "title": "Fred Finds a Way!", "feature": "", "sequence_number": 5, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "Jack Schiff", "pencils": "Bernard Baily", "inks": "Bernard Baily", "colors": "?", "letters": "Ira Schnapp", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "advocacy", "first_line": "", "characters": "Fred; Jimmy; baseball coach", "synopsis": "Fred finds that there are other ways to participate in his favorite activity of baseball, despite physical limitations or being rejected for the team.", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Return of Signalman", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 6, "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": "You're finished, Signalman!", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; a movie crew; a security guard; Signalman [Phil Cobb] (villain)", "synopsis": "Having escaped from jail, the Signalman attempts to impress his fellow crooks, even in attempting to steal object from a Batman exhibit, but is stopped by the Caped Crusader time and time again", "notes": "Script credit by Martin O'Hearn. Inker credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "Tootsie Roll Pop", "feature": "Tootsie [all other candies]", "sequence_number": 7, "page_count": "0.330", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "A great golfer they call \"Drive\" Carr on the links is an outstanding star.", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Palisades Amusement Park Admission", "sequence_number": 8, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "?", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "Be my guest at the Clyde Beatty & Cole Bros. circus at Palisades Amusement Park N.J.", "characters": "Superman; Emmett Kelly", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "text story", "title": "Off-Duty Hero", "feature": "", "sequence_number": 9, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "None", "inks": "None", "colors": "None", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "crime", "first_line": "Even now, on his day off in plain clothes, Patrolman Johnny Chase felt a surge of envy well up with him, as he strolled the sunny avenue.", "characters": "Johnny Chase", "synopsis": "", "notes": "This would be the last text story in Batman.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "", "feature": "Jail Jests", "sequence_number": 10, "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 (signed as Henry Boltinoff)", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "humor", "first_line": "Look at that sun streaming in here!", "characters": "Groden [Prisoner 2412]", "synopsis": "Prisoner Groden decides to layout and get a suntan, but gets angry when his sunburn has lines from the bars in the window.", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Mystery Seeds from Space", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 11, "page_count": "8.670", "script": "Dave Wood", "pencils": "Sheldon Moldoff", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Stan Starkman", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "They fell from the sky without warning--", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; unnamed farmer; an alien robot (villain)", "synopsis": "Tracking down the source of weird, sonic vibrations, the Caped Crusaders discover the existence of some alien seeds from space, all powered by an alien meteorite, the last of which is a formidable robot.", "notes": "Inker credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "Tootsie Roll Fudge", "feature": "Tootsie [all other candies]", "sequence_number": 12, "page_count": "0.330", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "There once was a bowler named Chris, who said, \"When my game goes amiss and the pins just won't budge, I eat Tootsie Roll Fudge then I bowl and the pins fall like this!\"", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "", "feature": "Casey the Cop", "sequence_number": 13, "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": "Officer! Oh, officer! I've been living here five years and my neighbor is always throwing his rocks on my property!", "characters": "Casey the Cop", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Exact Replica Army Grenade", "sequence_number": 14, "page_count": "0.500", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "Exact replica army grenade (as used in hand combat)", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Stephens Credit Sales Mottoes", "sequence_number": 15, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "None", "letters": "?; typeset", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "Boys! Girls! Ladies! Men! Given! Given! yes, we give you premiums or cash", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Wilson Chemical Company Cloverine Brand Salve", "sequence_number": 16, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "None", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Sold by Wilson Chemical Co.\r\nInside back cover.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "The National Sports Council Books", "sequence_number": 17, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "? (photo)", "inks": "? (photo)", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "We'll ripple your body with muscle-load T.N.T. in your fists", "characters": "Mickey Mantle (photo); Joe Louis (photo)", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Back cover.", "keywords": "" } ], "cover": "https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/2/w400/2586.jpg" }
