Issue Instance
API endpoint that allows Issue to be viewed.
GET /api/issue/20309/?format=api
{ "api_url": "https://www.comics.org/api/issue/20309/?format=api", "series_name": "Batman (1940 series)", "descriptor": "184", "number": "184", "volume": "", "variant_name": "", "title": "", "publication_date": "September 1966", "key_date": "1966-09-00", "price": "0.12 USD", "page_count": "36.000", "editing": "Julius Schwartz (editor)", "indicia_publisher": "National Periodical Publications Inc.", "brand_emblem": "Superman DC National Comics", "isbn": "", "barcode": "", "rating": "Approved by the Comics Code Authority", "on_sale_date": "1966-07-21", "indicia_frequency": "monthly, with the exception of Jan., April & Oct.; (semi-monthly, Dec.)", "notes": "On-sale date from ad in All-American Men of War #117 and copyright registration.", "variant_of": null, "series": "https://www.comics.org/api/series/141/?format=api", "indicia_printer": "", "keywords": "", "story_set": [ { "type": "cover", "title": "Where Are Batman [and] Robin?", "feature": "Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder", "sequence_number": 0, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "None", "pencils": "Carmine Infantino", "inks": "Murphy Anderson", "colors": "?", "letters": "Ira Schnapp", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "For 13 jittery nights the Bat-Signal blazed in the sky...", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne] (head view); Robin [Dick Grayson] (head view)", "synopsis": "As the Bat-Signal desperately beckons and the Hot-Line goes unanswered, the whereabouts of Batman and Robin are shrouded in mystery.", "notes": "", "keywords": "Bat-Signal; cobwebs; disappearance; Go-Go Checks; Hot-Line; mystery" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "Mystery of the Missing Manhunters!", "feature": "Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder", "sequence_number": 1, "page_count": "13.340", "script": "Gardner Fox", "pencils": "Sheldon Moldoff (signed as Bob Kane); Chic Stone ?", "inks": "Joe Giella", "colors": "?", "letters": "Gaspar Saladino", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "For 13 days and 13 nights, nobody in Gotham City knew the whereabouts of Batman and Robin!", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne; aka Greg the Gyp; aka Tommy the Tout; aka Cueball Carson]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Aunt Harriet Cooper; Commissioner James Gordon; Slippery Sam Lorenzo (villain, death); Lefty Wright (villain); Robbery Incorporated (villains)", "synopsis": "The Caped Crusaders mysteriously disappear for two weeks, and when they return, they have no memory of where they have been.", "notes": "\"Slippery Sam Lorenzo\" is a play on Batman TV-writer Lorenzo Semple, Jr..\r\n\r\nCredits for script and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Records show that Bob Kane was paid for the pencils, but scholars agree that pencils were actually by Moldoff. \r\n\r\nJames Ladd reported through the GCD Error list that the perspective shots of Batman's arm and fists are more consistent with Chic Stone's work.\r\n\r\nPages 6 and 14 are 2/3 pages.", "keywords": "Bat-Signal; Batmobile; disappearance; Gotham City; Hot-Line; hypnosis; mystery; Wayne Manor" }, { "type": "letters page", "title": "", "feature": "Letters to the Batcave", "sequence_number": 2, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "None", "inks": "None", "colors": "None", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Letters of comment from Paul Seydor, Irene Vartanoff, Ruth Keady and Stephen Harrell.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "activity", "title": "", "feature": "Cap's Hobby Hints", "sequence_number": 3, "page_count": "0.500", "script": "Henry Boltinoff (signed)", "pencils": "Henry Boltinoff (signed)", "inks": "Henry Boltinoff (signed)", "colors": "?", "letters": "Henry Boltinoff (signed)", "editing": "None", "job_number": "6424", "genre": "children", "first_line": "What are you doing? I'm building a bookshelf.", "characters": "Cap (in logo only); two boys", "synopsis": "Using a pocket comb to hold a nail.", "notes": "Thanks to Duane Jepson, Council Bluffs, Iowa.", "keywords": "hobbies; tips" }, { "type": "in-house column", "title": "", "feature": "Direct Currents", "sequence_number": 4, "page_count": "0.500", "script": "?", "pencils": "None", "inks": "None", "colors": "None", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "Well, it's time to check the currents and fish for the best in comic-mag adventure, fantasy and laughs.", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "In-house promotional feature highlighting the DC comic books on sale July 28 thru August 04, 1966: Action Comics #341, Adventure Comics # 348, Detective Comics # 355, Strange Adventures #192, Our Army at War #172, Superman #190, Wonder Woman #165, Blackhawk #225, and The Atom #27.", "keywords": "issue previews" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Boy Wonder's Boo-Boo Patrol!", "feature": "Batman Starring Robin the Boy Wonder", "sequence_number": 5, "page_count": "9.670", "script": "Gardner Fox", "pencils": "Sheldon Moldoff (signed as Bob Kane)", "inks": "Sid Greene", "colors": "?", "letters": "Gaspar Saladino", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "It isn't often that Robin gets the opportunity to take over for an absent Batman, but when his mentor leaves him on his own, the Teen-Age Thunderbolt - charged with electric excitement to show his stuff - takes off on a riotous ride that turns into...", "characters": "Robin [Dick Grayson]; Bruce Wayne; Viola Lance (stunt girl); Bill Porter (a director); jewel thieves (villains)", "synopsis": "Robin, who is on patrol alone, thinks that someone is trying to kill Viola Lance, a stunt girl, when she experiences several motorcycle accidents.", "notes": "Pencil credit by Craig Delich; we previously suggested Chic Stone.\r\n\r\nCredits for script and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Records show that Bob Kane was paid for the pencils, but Craig Delich and other scholars agree that pencils were actually by Moldoff.", "keywords": "fire; kid sidekick's solo activity; stunts; TV show" } ], "cover": "https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/2/w400/2646.jpg" }
