{"api_url":"https://www.comics.org/api/issue/19949/?format=json","series_name":"Action Comics (1938 series)","descriptor":"336","number":"336","volume":"","variant_name":"","title":"","publication_date":"April 1966","key_date":"1966-04-00","price":"0.12 USD","page_count":"36.000","editing":"Mort Weisinger (editor); E. 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