Issue Instance
API endpoint that allows Issue to be viewed.
GET /api/issue/20554/?format=api
{ "api_url": "https://www.comics.org/api/issue/20554/?format=api", "series_name": "Batman (1940 series)", "descriptor": "187", "number": "187", "volume": "", "variant_name": "", "title": "", "publication_date": "December 1966-January 1967", "key_date": "1966-12-00", "price": "0.25 USD", "page_count": "84.000", "editing": "Jack Schiff (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": "1966-10-06", "indicia_frequency": "monthly, with the exception of Jan. and April; (semi-monthly, Dec.)", "notes": "Also designated on cover as 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #G30 and as G-30 on indicia page.\r\n\r\nOn-sale date from copyright registration.", "variant_of": null, "series": "https://www.comics.org/api/series/141/?format=api", "indicia_printer": "", "keywords": "", "story_set": [ { "type": "cover", "title": "An All-Star Collection of the Best of Batman!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 0, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "None", "pencils": "Win Mortimer; Curt Swan", "inks": "Win Mortimer; Stan Kaye", "colors": "?", "letters": "Ira Schnapp", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Cover illustrated with vignettes from the covers of Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #192, 216, 264, and Batman (DC, 1940 series) #95.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "table of contents", "title": "An All-Star Collection of the Best of Batman", "feature": "", "sequence_number": 1, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "E. Nelson Bridwell ?", "pencils": "? (illustration)", "inks": "? (illustration)", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "G-30", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "Batman's First Case", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 2, "page_count": "11.670", "script": "Bill Finger", "pencils": "Sheldon Moldoff", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Stan Starkman", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "The Clock!", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne] (origin); Robin [Dick Grayson]; Martha Wayne (flashback) (cameo); Thomas Wayne (flashback); unnamed criminology professor (flashback); Tom Rogers (introduction, ex-convict and friend of Kyle); unnamed prison warden; Joe Chill (villain, cameo, flashback); The Clock [Kyle] (villain, introduction)", "synopsis": "The sudden appearance of a new criminal basing his crime on time jogs Batman's memory into remembering that this criminal was his very first case after his parents were killed, and if the Clock has his way, the current case against him will be the Caped Crusader's last!", "notes": "Inks credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Phantom Eye of Gotham City", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 3, "page_count": "12.000", "script": "John Broome ?", "pencils": "Bob Kane (signed as Bob Kane)", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Pat Gordon", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "Silently, the people of Gotham wait before their television sets", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Commissioner James Gordon; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Jim; Ed (newspaper editor); James (butler); Byron King (cameo, big game hunter); Buddy (cameo, King's son); Phantom Eye [Nails Riley aka Byron King and Batman imitator] (villain, introduction)", "synopsis": "As vicious criminal creates a means to televise crimes as they happen and making the Dynamic Duo look like they are inept. He goes further to disguise himself as Batman and get unmasked on TV as a wealthy big-game hunter, forcing Batman to actually prove who he is or give up his crime fighting vendetta.", "notes": "Writer credit by Martin O'Hearn. Inks credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Last Days of Batman", "feature": "Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder", "sequence_number": 4, "page_count": "8.670", "script": "Bill Finger", "pencils": "Sheldon Moldoff (signed as Bob Kane)", "inks": "Charles Paris (signed as Bob Kane)", "colors": "?", "letters": "Stan Starkman", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "Batman is dead!", "characters": "The Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Commissioner James Gordon; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Professor Carter Nichols; John Kirk (museum curator); Signor Beri (cameo); Verillo (cameo, painter); El Bolo (villain, international jewel thief)", "synopsis": "Carter Nichols sends the Dynamic Duo back to ancient Venice to gather evidence in a case, but only Batman returns, while Robin is shifted to Gotham City a few days into the future, where he discovers a new criminal will kill Batman.", "notes": "Script credit from Martin O'Hearn. Inks credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "Gotham's Cleverest Criminal", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 5, "page_count": "7.000", "script": "Al Schwartz", "pencils": "Jack Burnley", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Ira Schnapp", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "Ha-ha!", "characters": "Joker (villain)", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Pencils credit verified by Burnley; Inks credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "Peril at Playland Isle", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 6, "page_count": "11.670", "script": "Bill Finger", "pencils": "Dick Sprang", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Stan Starkman", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "It was an amusement park --", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Charles Barden (millionaire, death); Edith Barden (Barden's daughter); Macklin (Edith's fiance); Wilton (Barden's nephew); Pete Conn (villain, death); Carter (villain, introduction, Barden's business friend)", "synopsis": "When the wealthy builder of a new amusement park is killed, Batman and Robin nearly lose their lives tracking down the real killer.", "notes": "Pencils credit verified by Sprang.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "in-house column", "title": "", "feature": "Direct Currents", "sequence_number": 7, "page_count": "0.500", "script": "None", "pencils": "None", "inks": "None", "colors": "None", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Batman of Tomorrow!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 8, "page_count": "12.000", "script": "Edmond Hamilton", "pencils": "Dick Sprang (signed as Bob Kane)", "inks": "Charles Paris (signed as Bob Kane)", "colors": "?", "letters": "Ben Oda", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "Out of the future comes the most astounding of visitors", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Commissioner James Gordon; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Vicki Vale; Batman (of the Future) [Brane Taylor]; Jackson Barrow (wealthy banker); Martin Vair (villain)", "synopsis": "When Bruce Wayne injures his arm, to keep Vicki from discovering that Batman has the same problem, the Caped Crusader seeks out the Batman of the Future to step in for him...almost with disastrous results!", "notes": "Pencils credit verified by Sprang.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "activity", "title": "", "feature": "Cap's Hobby Hints", "sequence_number": 9, "page_count": "0.500", "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": "What are you cutting out that paper for?", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Idea from Sheldon Kane, No. Brooklin, Maine.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "letters page", "title": "", "feature": "Giant Batman", "sequence_number": 10, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "E. Nelson Bridwell ?", "pencils": "None", "inks": "None", "colors": "None", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Letters from Jerry Mills, David Gellman, Boris Menart, Frank Mazza, Bruce Kronenberg, Gregory Pigna, Stephen Phillips, Mike Schnittker, Joseph Lenius, John Cali.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Ballad of Batman", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 11, "page_count": "8.000", "script": "Edmond Hamilton", "pencils": "Dick Sprang", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Pat Gordon", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "It was only a song by a wandering singer", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Commissioner James Gordon (voice only); Robin [Dick Grayson]; Sam Strong (introduction); John Martin (TV producer, introduction); Whitey (villain, introduction); other unnamed thugs (villains, introduction for all)", "synopsis": "A balladeer comes to Gotham City to sing the praises of Batman in verse, but it backfires when his songs tip off crooks wanting to commit crimes.", "notes": "Script credit from Martin O'Hearn; pencils credit verified by Sprang; inks credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "" } ], "cover": "https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/2/w400/2649.jpg" }
