Issue Instance
API endpoint that allows Issue to be viewed.
GET /api/issue/24398/?format=api
{ "api_url": "https://www.comics.org/api/issue/24398/?format=api", "series_name": "Batman (1940 series)", "descriptor": "233", "number": "233", "volume": "", "variant_name": "", "title": "", "publication_date": "July-August 1971", "key_date": "1971-07-00", "price": "0.25 USD", "page_count": "68.000", "editing": "E. Nelson Bridwell (credited) (editor); Carmine Infantino (credited) (editorial director); Sol Harrison (credited) (production manager)", "indicia_publisher": "National Periodical Publications Inc.", "brand_emblem": "DC [character]", "isbn": "", "barcode": "", "rating": "Approved by the Comics Code Authority", "on_sale_date": "1971-05-11", "indicia_frequency": "monthly, with the exception of April and October", "notes": "Also designated on cover as Giant (DC, 1969 series) #G-85 and as G-85 on indicia page. \r\n\r\nOn sale date from previous issue, Batman (DC, 1940 series) #232 (June 1971), and the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume 25, Part 2, Periodicals, January-December 1971. Copyright registration number B671409.", "variant_of": null, "series": "https://www.comics.org/api/series/141/?format=api", "indicia_printer": "", "keywords": "", "story_set": [ { "type": "cover", "title": "The Crime of Bruce Wayne!; The Unmasking of Bruce Wayne!; Who is the Other Bruce Wayne?; The Murder of Bruce Wayne!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 0, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "None", "pencils": "Dick Giordano", "inks": "Dick Giordano", "colors": "?", "letters": "Gaspar Saladino", "editing": "None", "job_number": "N-283", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Aunt Agatha", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Cover credits confirmed in the letter column of Batman #238.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "table of contents", "title": "", "feature": "", "sequence_number": 1, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "E. Nelson Bridwell", "pencils": "Irv Novick (illustrations)", "inks": "Dick Giordano (illustrations)", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "N-305", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Death Cheaters of Gotham City!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 2, "page_count": "12.000", "script": "David Vern", "pencils": "Jim Mooney (signed as Bob Kane)", "inks": "Jim Mooney (signed as Bob Kane)", "colors": "?", "letters": "Ira Schnapp", "editing": "None", "job_number": "N-298", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "It is said that all men who cheat are...", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; unnamed wife of Hack Dawes; unnamed wife of Tom Weaver; The Death-Cheaters Club [John Hedges Grant (sportsman, death); Jeff Sievers (villain, accountant, faked death); Hack Dawes (truck driver); Tom Weaver (writer); Stanley Duff (banker); Jim Sawyer (stevedore); Gregory Orrick (actor); Bruce Wayne (socialite)]; Little Dougy (villain); Joey the Rod (villain)", "synopsis": "Bruce Wayne becomes a member of the strange \"Death Cheaters Club,\" but a wanted criminal, who fits the qualifications for membership, is denied the same...and vows vengeance against all the members!", "notes": "Script credit from Martin O'Hearn; pencils credit verified by Mooney; letters credit from Martin O'Hearn and Joe Desris.", "keywords": "Bat-Cave; Bat-Signal; Batplane; Gotham City" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Other Bruce Wayne", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 3, "page_count": "8.000", "script": "Bill Finger", "pencils": "Sheldon Moldoff (signed as Bob Kane)", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Pat Gordon", "editing": "None", "job_number": "N-289", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "Batman... that's my cousin -- Bruce Wayne!", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Commissioner James Gordon; Bruce N. Wayne (distant cousin of Bruce); Varrel (villain)", "synopsis": "Commissioner Gordon has a surprise for Bruce: a relative of his from the coast who decides to teach Bruce how to be a great detective!", "notes": "Script credit from Martin O'Hearn; inks credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "Bat-Cave; Bat-Signal; Batmobile; Gotham City; Wayne Mansion" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Murder of Bruce Wayne!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 4, "page_count": "12.000", "script": "David Vern", "pencils": "Bob Kane (signed, Batman and Robin figures only); Lew Sayre Schwartz", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Ira Schnapp", "editing": "None", "job_number": "N-287", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Board of Trustees of the International Chemical Company [Holmes Caffrey (chairman); Donald Penn; Bruce Wayne; John Keith-Dudley; Roger J. Keep (villain)]; Stagg (villain, Keep's bodyguard); Rogle (villain, Keep's bodyguard); Detective Kelly", "synopsis": "A member of the International Chemical Company's Board of Trustees decides that the other members are trying to defraud the stockholders, so derives a plan to kill them all...including Bruce Wayne!", "notes": "Pencil credit for Bob Kane verified by Lew Schwartz. Letters credit from Todd Klein via his Klein Letters blog (19 September 2016, http://kleinletters.com/Blog/ira-schnapp-in-worlds-finest-comics-part-2/) Inks credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "Bat-Cave; Bat-Signal; Batmobile; Gotham City; Wayne Mansion" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "Bruce Wayne's Aunt Agatha!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 5, "page_count": "8.000", "script": "Bill Finger", "pencils": "Sheldon Moldoff (signed as Bob Kane)", "inks": "Stan Kaye", "colors": "?", "letters": "Pat Gordon", "editing": "None", "job_number": "N-286", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Agatha (Bruce Wayne's aunt, introduction); The Raven and his Rotor Robbers (villains, introduction for all)", "synopsis": "The arrival of Bruce Wayne's aunt to Wayne Manor poses a real problem for the Dynamic Duo, especially after she unmasks the Batman!", "notes": "Script credit from Martin O'Hearn. Inks credit verified by Craig Delich; we previously credited Sheldon Moldoff.", "keywords": "Gotham City; Wayne Mansion" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Crime of Bruce Wayne", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 6, "page_count": "12.000", "script": "Bill Finger", "pencils": "Sheldon Moldoff (signed as Bob Kane)", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "?", "editing": "None", "job_number": "N-290", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Batwoman [Kathy Kane]; Alfred Pennyworth; un-named prison warden; The Collector (villain, introduction); Squint Neely (villain, introduction)", "synopsis": "Bruce Wayne decides to go along with a scheme in which he would confess to being a wanted criminal known as the Collector in order to get vital information from a cellmate about where the crook stashed $50,000...but the plan goes horribly wrong and Wayne gets sent to death row!", "notes": "Inks credit verified by Charles Paris.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "letters page", "title": "", "feature": "Giant Batmail", "sequence_number": 7, "page_count": "2.000", "script": "E. Nelson Bridwell (signed as E. N. B.)", "pencils": "None", "inks": "None", "colors": "None", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "N-304", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Letters from Gary Skinner, Kurt Klingenfuss, Tom Elbode, Scott Johnson, Jerry Wilson, Gary Miller, William E. Goldsmith and Paul L. Tremblay.", "keywords": "" } ], "cover": "https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/2/w400/2695.jpg" }