Issue Instance
API endpoint that allows Issue to be viewed.
GET /api/issue/21633/?format=api
{ "api_url": "https://www.comics.org/api/issue/21633/?format=api", "series_name": "Batman (1940 series)", "descriptor": "198", "number": "198", "volume": "", "variant_name": "", "title": "", "publication_date": "January-February 1968", "key_date": "1968-01-00", "price": "0.25 USD", "page_count": "84.000", "editing": "E. Nelson Bridwell (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": "1967-11-14", "indicia_frequency": "monthly, with the exception of Apr. & Oct.", "notes": "Also designated on cover as 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #G43 and as G-43 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": "Special All-Villain Issue!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 0, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "Bill Finger; ?", "pencils": "Bob Kane (reprinted page); Carmine Infantino ? (see notes); Murphy Anderson ? (see notes)", "inks": "Murphy Anderson; Charles Paris (reprinted page)", "colors": "Jack Adler ?", "letters": "Gaspar Saladino", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Joe Chill; Joker; Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot]", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Includes a page from the story from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #47 (June-July 1948) in black & white and negative. Nick Caputo suspects that Anderson may have penciled the cover.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "table of contents", "title": "Giant 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-43", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Origin of the Batman!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 2, "page_count": "13.000", "script": "Bill Finger", "pencils": "Bob Kane (signed as Bob Kane)", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Ira Schnapp", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "Have you ever wondered why Bruce Wayne", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne] (origin); Joe Chill (death) (villain) (name revealed in this story, Thomas and Martha Wayne's murderer); Commissioner James Gordon; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Martha Wayne (flashback, death); Thomas Wayne (flashback); Feets Borgam (killer, death); Monty Julep (illegal gambler, death)", "synopsis": "While investigating criminal activity at a transport company, Batman recognizes the owner, Joe Chill, as the man who killed Thomas and Martha Wayne years before. Batman tries to find evidence of Chill's illegal operations, but when he fails, he decides to reveal his identity to Chill and tells him that will be watching him and will catch him eventually. In a panic, Chill flees to his gang, but when they find out Chill is responsible for Batman's existence they shoot him, and only after do they realize that they should have asked Chill for Batman's real name.", "notes": "Pencils credit from Lew Sayre Schwartz; inks credit verified by Paris; letters credit from Martin O'Hearn and Joe Desris.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Jungle Cat-Queen!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 3, "page_count": "12.000", "script": "Edmond Hamilton", "pencils": "Dick Sprang (signed as Bob Kane)", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Joe Letterese", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "That empress of the underworld", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Robin [Dick Grayson]", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Pencils credit verified by Sprang; inks credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "letters page", "title": "", "feature": "Giant Batmail", "sequence_number": 4, "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 Nils Holman, Unsigned, Nick Minglis, Mark Dillman, Wendy DeBare, Lester Hancock.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Web of the Spinner", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 5, "page_count": "8.500", "script": "Bill Finger", "pencils": "Sheldon Moldoff (signed as Bob Kane)", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Stan Starkman", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "Like a spider", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Batwoman [Kathy Kane]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; The Spinner (Villain; Introduction); \"Peanuts\" Gilson", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Script credit from Martin O'Hearn; inks credit verified by Paris. Last page condensed.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "Oswald Who?", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 6, "page_count": "5.000", "script": "Al Schwartz", "pencils": "Jack Burnley (signed as Bob Kane)", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Ira Schnapp", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "It's a rare day", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Robin [Dick Grayson]", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Pencils credit verified by Burnley; inks credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "", "feature": "Bill and His Family", "sequence_number": 7, "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": "", "genre": "humor", "first_line": "First, to pull down the shades...", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Crimes of Batman!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 8, "page_count": "12.000", "script": "David Vern", "pencils": "Bob Kane (signed as Bob Kane) (Batman & Robin figures); Lew Sayre Schwartz", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Ira Schnapp", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "What's this??", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Joker; Robin [Dick Grayson]", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Inks credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Menace of False Face", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 9, "page_count": "8.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "Sheldon Moldoff", "inks": "Charles Paris (signed as Bob Kane)", "colors": "?", "letters": "Joe Letterese", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "A millionaire --", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Inks credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Bandit of the Bells!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 10, "page_count": "12.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "Bob Kane; Charles Paris (signed as Bob Kane)", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Ira Schnapp", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "From morning till midnight", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; The Gong [Ed Peale] (villain, introduction); Henry Morton", "synopsis": "Batman and Robin face a new villain, The Gong, who commits crimes based on bells.", "notes": "Letters credit from Martin O'Hearn and Joe Desris.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "activity", "title": "", "feature": "Cap's Hobby Hints", "sequence_number": 11, "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": "6599", "genre": "", "first_line": "Drats! The pick-up brushes on my slot car always get pulled...", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Idea from Brady Pinketon, Satellite Beach, Fla.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "in-house column", "title": "", "feature": "Direct Currents", "sequence_number": 12, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "E. Nelson Bridwell ?", "pencils": "Carmine Infantino; Gil Kane (illustrations)", "inks": "Murphy Anderson; Sid Greene (illustrations)", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" } ], "cover": "https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/2/w400/2660.jpg" }
