Issue Instance
API endpoint that allows Issue to be viewed.
GET /api/issue/23623/?format=api
{ "api_url": "https://www.comics.org/api/issue/23623/?format=api", "series_name": "Batman (1940 series)", "descriptor": "223", "number": "223", "volume": "", "variant_name": "", "title": "", "publication_date": "July-August 1970", "key_date": "1970-07-00", "price": "0.25 USD", "page_count": "68.000", "editing": "E. Nelson Bridwell", "indicia_publisher": "National Periodical Publications Inc.", "brand_emblem": "Superman DC National Comics", "isbn": "", "barcode": "", "rating": "Approved by the Comics Code Authority", "on_sale_date": "1970-05-12", "indicia_frequency": "monthly, with the exception of April and October", "notes": "Also designated on cover as Giant (DC, 1969 series) #G73 and as G-73 on indicia page.\r\n\r\nThe on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filings.", "variant_of": null, "series": "https://www.comics.org/api/series/141/?format=api", "indicia_printer": "", "keywords": "", "story_set": [ { "type": "cover", "title": "Batman and Robin Face Danger Around the World!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 0, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "None", "pencils": "Curt Swan", "inks": "Murphy Anderson", "colors": "?", "letters": "Gaspar Saladino; typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "N-130", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "American flag; snow; United States flag; windmill" }, { "type": "table of contents", "title": "", "feature": "", "sequence_number": 1, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "E. Nelson Bridwell", "pencils": "? (illustration)", "inks": "? (illustration)", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "City without Guns!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 2, "page_count": "12.000", "script": "Bill Woolfolk", "pencils": "Dick Sprang (signed as Bob Kane)", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Joe Letterese", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Inspector Deggers (of Scotland Yard); Chester Gleek (English admirer of Batman); Captain Percy; Frank Lumardi (villain, introduction)", "synopsis": "When Bruce and Dick visit London's Scotland Yard, they are shocked to see a frame that once held a picture of Batman and Robin empty, and seek to find out why this has happened.", "notes": "Pencils credit verified by Sprang; inks credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "Bat-Cave; Batmobile; Oxonian Rifle Club; Pickwick Bicycle Club" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "Batman of the Mounties!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 3, "page_count": "9.670", "script": "David Vern", "pencils": "Bob Kane (signed, Batman and Robin figures only); Lew Sayre Schwartz", "inks": "Stan Kaye", "colors": "?", "letters": "Ira Schnapp", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Bob Jason (of the RCMP, introduction); unnamed Commandant of the RCMP (introduction); Remy LeClerc (villain, introduction); Pierre LeClerc (villain, introduction)", "synopsis": "Batman and Robin are the guests for National Law Enforcement Week in Canada, but soon become involved in a manhunt with a Royal Canadian Mountie.", "notes": "Batman and Robin wear their all-white \"snow\" costumes in this story. Oddity: On page 9, a criminal removes the Dynamic Duo's utility belts. Yet, on the next page, they are shown wearing the belts.\r\n\r\nWriter credit by Martin O'Hearn, penciler credits verified by Schwartz, and letterer credit by Martin O'Hearn and Joe Desris.", "keywords": "Bat-Plane; Batarang; utility belt" }, { "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": "N-137", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Letters from Keith Griffin, Waldemar Golebiewski, Steve Beery, Keith Waits, Anthony Bonavolente, Dave Rands and Wes Smith.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Mardi Gras Mystery", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 5, "page_count": "14.000", "script": "Bill Finger", "pencils": "Jack Burnley (signed as Bob Kane)", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Ira Schnapp (strips #43-46); ? (shop, strips #40-42)", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Mr. Bagley (villain)", "synopsis": "Batman and Robin are invited to New Orleans for the Mardi Gras festival and get involved in the hunt for a hidden treasure aboard an old abandoned paddleboat.", "notes": "Pencils credit verified by Burnley; inks credit verified by Paris; Letters credit & synopsis added by Craig Delich.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "Journey to the Top of the World!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 6, "page_count": "8.000", "script": "Bill Finger", "pencils": "Dick Sprang (signed as Bob Kane)", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Pat Gordon", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne; aka Bruce Martin]; Robin [Dick Grayson; aka Dick Green]; Hans Verglas (introduction, expedition leader); Paul Frechet (introduction, French mountaineer); Ramon Nosotro (introduction, Brazilian climber); Sidney Smythe (introduction, English renowned climber); impersonator of Sidney Smythe (villain, death)", "synopsis": "Batman and Robin are informed of the loss of valuable microfilm atop Mount K-4, which reveals the names of many members of an international crime cartel. Their job: recover it before the criminals do!", "notes": "Script credit from Martin O'Hearn. Pencils credit verified by Sprang. Inks credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "Mount K-4" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "Around the World in 8 Days", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 7, "page_count": "12.000", "script": "Bill Finger", "pencils": "Dick Sprang", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Joe Letterese ?", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; un-named doctor; Hans (villain, introduction); Claus (villain, introduction); un-named gondolier (villain)", "synopsis": "Bandits break into a hospital and steal an experimental new drug....the only one that will save a patient, and Batman and Robin only have a week to discover its location and get it back so that the man can be injected with it. To make matters worse, the loot from the crime has been broken up between \"fences\" all over the world!", "notes": "Pencils credit verified by Sprang. Inks credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "Bat-Plane; Bat-Signal; Wayne Mansion" } ], "cover": "https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/2/w400/2685.jpg" }
