Issue Instance
API endpoint that allows Issue to be viewed.
GET /api/issue/2860596/
{ "api_url": "https://www.comics.org/api/issue/2860596/", "series_name": "Silver Surfer No. 6 Facsimile Edition (2026 series)", "descriptor": "", "number": "[nn]", "volume": "", "variant_name": "", "title": "", "publication_date": "October 2026", "key_date": "2026-10-00", "price": "6.99 USD", "page_count": "68.000", "editing": "", "indicia_publisher": "Marvel Worldwide Inc.", "brand_emblem": "Marvel [in horizontal box]", "isbn": "", "barcode": "75960621489100111", "rating": "Approved by the Comics Code Authority", "on_sale_date": "2026-08-19", "indicia_frequency": "", "notes": "", "variant_of": null, "series": "https://www.comics.org/api/series/239797/", "indicia_printer": "", "keywords": "", "story_set": [ { "type": "cover", "title": "Worlds Without End!", "feature": "Silver Surfer", "sequence_number": 0, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "None", "pencils": "John Buscema", "inks": "Frank Giacoia ?; Sal Buscema ?", "colors": "Marie Severin ?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "", "characters": "Silver Surfer; The Overlord", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Olympic Sales / Olympia Sales Cards", "sequence_number": 1, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "? (ad copy)", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "None", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "Famous name prizes or cash... from Olympic", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Inside front cover. Ad by Olympic Sales Club, Inc.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "Worlds Without End!", "feature": "Silver Surfer", "sequence_number": 2, "page_count": "39.000", "script": "Stan Lee (credited)", "pencils": "John Buscema (credited)", "inks": "Sal Buscema (credited)", "colors": "Bill Everett ?", "letters": "Artie Simek (credited)", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "science fiction; superhero", "first_line": "How much longer must I be an alien prisoner upon the savage planet Earth?", "characters": "Silver Surfer; Shalla Bal; The Overlord (villain, first appearance, origin, death)", "synopsis": "The Silver Surfer exceeds the speed of light, in an effort to escape the barrier placed by Galactus, only to find that he has travelled into the future.", "notes": "In the letters page of Sub-Mariner #19 Roy Thomas notes that Bill Everett was colorist for \"recent issues\" of the Silver Surfer.", "keywords": "Atomic Experimental Center; cardiascope; time travel; Zenn-La" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Grit Newspaper", "sequence_number": 3, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "? (ad copy)", "pencils": "?; ? (photograph)", "inks": "?; ? (photograph)", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "Look, fellows!", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Recruitment ad for sales people for Grit newspaper, between pages 11 and 12 of previous story sequence.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Centre Coin's Album or Catalog", "sequence_number": 4, "page_count": "0.500", "script": "? (ad copy)", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "? (background and lettering only)", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "We’ll pay you $10,000 for this Lincoln penny", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Ad for a U.S. coin catalog for $1.00 on top half of page between pages 11 and 12 of previous story sequence.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Precise Publications Defense Training", "sequence_number": 5, "page_count": "0.500", "script": "? (ad copy)", "pencils": "?; ? (photograph)", "inks": "?; ? (photograph)", "colors": "? (background and lettering only)", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "I’ll make you a master of karate", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Advertisement for book on learning Karate.\r\nLocated on lower half of page between pages 11 and 12 of previous story sequence.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "", "sequence_number": 6, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "? (ad copy)", "pencils": "?; ? (photograph)", "inks": "?; ? (photograph)", "colors": "None", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "Hand control stunt flying plane", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Thumbnail ads for stamps and novelty items, between pages 17 and 18 of previous story sequence.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Academy for Home Study", "sequence_number": 7, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "? (ad copy)", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "Now you can finish high school at home", "characters": "", "synopsis": "Send for free booklet on how to finish high school at home.", "notes": "Between pages 17 and 18 of previous story sequence.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Magic Art Reproducer", "sequence_number": 8, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "? (ad copy)", "pencils": "?; ? (photograph)", "inks": "?; ? (photograph)", "colors": "? (background only)", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "Draw any person in one minute!", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Illustrated ad for \"Magic Art Reproducer\" for $1.98 from Norton Products, New York, N.Y.\r\nAd located between pages 28 and 29 of previous story sequence.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "Shop by Mail", "feature": "", "sequence_number": 9, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "? (ad copy)", "pencils": "?; ? (photographs)", "inks": "?; ? (photographs)", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "These 3 big drafting kits* given to you!", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Thumbnail ads for novelty items and back-issue comic books, between pages 37 and 38 of previous story sequence.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "promo (ad from the publisher)", "title": "", "feature": "Fantastic Four", "sequence_number": 10, "page_count": "0.400", "script": "? (promo copy)", "pencils": "Jack Kirby", "inks": "Chic Stone", "colors": "?", "letters": "Sam Rosen; ?", "editing": "Stan Lee", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "Face front, hero! This is one of Marvel’s big ones!", "characters": "Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing; Invisible Girl]; Watcher", "synopsis": "Promo ad for Marvel Collectors’ Item (Marvel, 1965 series) #21 advertised as “now on sale.”", "notes": "Located on top portion of page.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Marvel Plastic Pillows; Merry Marvel Marching Society Membership Kit", "sequence_number": 11, "page_count": "0.600", "script": "? (ad copy)", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "?", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "It’s brand new!! Marvel’s swingin’ inflatable plastic pillows!", "characters": "Spider-Man; Thor; Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Advertisement for Spider-Man and Thor plastic pillows for $1.50 each and the Merry Marvel Marching Society Membership Kit for $1.00 each. On lower half of page.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "in-house column", "title": "", "feature": "Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Soapbox", "sequence_number": 12, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "Stan Lee (credited as Smiley); ? (promo copy)", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "Awe-inspiring announcements to yawn with!", "characters": "Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Includes: Items; Stan's Soapbox; The Mighty Marvel Checklist", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Unsuspecting!", "feature": "Tales of the Watcher", "sequence_number": 13, "page_count": "11.000", "script": "Stan Lee (credited)", "pencils": "Syd Shores (credited)", "inks": "Frank Brunner (credited as Frankie Bruner)", "colors": "Bill Everett ?", "letters": "Morrie Kuramoto (credited as Sherigail)", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "science fiction", "first_line": "Can an unearthly race invade Earth without anyone suspecting it?", "characters": "", "synopsis": "Shape-changing aliens assume the form of an innocuous object in order to conquer Earth.", "notes": "A retelling of \"The Unsuspecting\" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #13 (June 1962). \r\n\r\nKuramoto credit per Nick Caputo, April 2013. Previous indexer credited Ray Holloway but based upon an examination of the lettering styles that was an error and the pseudonym \"Sherigail\" was derived from Morrie Kuramoto's wife and daughter, Gail and Sherry, as noted here: \r\n\r\nhttp://www.nyu-apastudies.org/new/larryhama/?p=129\r\n\r\nA magazine titled the \"Silver Surfer\" is mentioned and appears in the story. The Marvel bullpen is also referred to within the story.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comics-form advertising", "title": "The Race to Danger", "feature": "Lee Jeans / Lee Leens", "sequence_number": 14, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?; ? (ad copy)", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "?", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "sports; teen", "first_line": "", "characters": "Bobby; Jim Driscoll", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Comics ad for Lee Leens pants from H.D. Lee Company, Inc. between pages 3 and 4 of previous story sequence.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension System", "sequence_number": 15, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "? (ad copy)", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "? (panel backgrounds only)", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "‘Check the kind of body you want ...and I’ll show you how easily you can have it.’ - Charles Atlas", "characters": "Charles Atlas (photograph)", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Thumbnail ads for novelty items and back-issue comic books, between pages 5 and 6 of previous story sequence.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Classic Movie Library", "sequence_number": 16, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "? (ad copy)", "pencils": "? (photographs)", "inks": "? (photographs)", "colors": "? (background only)", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "Classics of the silent screen", "characters": "", "synopsis": "Offer for 15 volume set of books containing photographs of silent movie stars from Cadillac Publishing Co.", "notes": "Between pages 7 and 8 of previous story sequence.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "letters page", "title": "", "feature": "Who Speaks for the Surfer?", "sequence_number": 17, "page_count": "2.000", "script": "Roy Thomas", "pencils": "John Buscema", "inks": "Sal Buscema", "colors": "?", "letters": "Sam Rosen; typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "Dear Stan and John, Silver Surfer #4 was another great issue.", "characters": "Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]; Loki", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Letters from Bill Labrie, Todd Buchts, Brian Hoard, Rochell Porter, Daniel Preston, Tim Barretto, V. O. Speights, Eddie Bobb.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Joe Weider Course and Products", "sequence_number": 18, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "? (ad copy)", "pencils": "? (photos)", "inks": "? (photos)", "colors": "None", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "Tired of being 'skinny'?", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Ad for a weight gain supplement.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Famous Artists Schools", "sequence_number": 19, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "? (ad copy)", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "None", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "We're looking for people who like to draw", "characters": "Norman Rockwell", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Inside back cover. Ad for the Famous Artists School.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "American Seeds", "sequence_number": 20, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "? (ad copy)", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "Make money get prizes with fast selling American seeds", "characters": "Rick Barry; Wilt Chamberlain", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Back cover. Ad to earn money or prizes by selling seeds.", "keywords": "" } ], "cover": "https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1850/w400/1850559.jpg" }
