Issue Instance
API endpoint that allows Issue to be viewed.
GET /api/issue/31690/?format=api
{ "api_url": "https://www.comics.org/api/issue/31690/?format=api", "series_name": "Batman (1940 series)", "descriptor": "294", "number": "294", "volume": "38", "variant_name": "", "title": "", "publication_date": "December 1977", "key_date": "1977-12-00", "price": "0.35 USD", "page_count": "36.000", "editing": "Joe Orlando (managing editor); Julius Schwartz; E. Nelson Bridwell (associate editor)", "indicia_publisher": "DC Comics Inc.", "brand_emblem": "DC [bullet]", "isbn": "", "barcode": "0709893043012", "rating": "Approved by the Comics Code Authority", "on_sale_date": "1977-09-08", "indicia_frequency": "monthly", "notes": "The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings. Comic Reader #148 gives an on-sale date of September 6.", "variant_of": null, "series": "https://www.comics.org/api/series/141/?format=api", "indicia_printer": "", "keywords": "", "story_set": [ { "type": "cover", "title": "", "feature": "Batman", "sequence_number": 0, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "None", "pencils": "Jim Aparo (signed)", "inks": "Jim Aparo (signed)", "colors": "Tatjana Wood", "letters": "?", "editing": "None", "job_number": "S-2738", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "So long, Batman! This time I really rubbed you out!", "characters": "Batman [Jerry Randall]; Joker", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comics-form advertising", "title": "The Cuckoo Cuckoos", "feature": "Hostess Fruit Pies; Penguin", "sequence_number": 1, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "E. Nelson Bridwell ?", "pencils": "Curt Swan", "inks": "Vince Colletta", "colors": "?", "letters": "Ben Oda", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "", "characters": "The Penguin; police officers; cuckoo clock robbers", "synopsis": "The Penguin controls some cuckoo clocks and has them stealing money, but the police entice the clocks to stop using Hostess Fruit Pies, and they capture The Penguin.", "notes": "Inside front cover advertisement for Hostess Fruit Pies in comicstrip format.\r\nOne bystander looks like Julius Schwartz.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "[Where Were You on the Night Batman Was Killed?] The Testimony of the Joker!", "feature": "Batman", "sequence_number": 2, "page_count": "17.000", "script": "David Vern", "pencils": "John Calnan", "inks": "Tex Blaisdell", "colors": "Jerry Serpe", "letters": "Ben Oda", "editing": "None", "job_number": "S-2652", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne; also as Two-Face]; Joker; Ra's al Ghul; Mr. Freeze [Dr. Victor Fries]; Killer Moth [Cameron van Cleer]; Poison Ivy [Pamela Isley]; Mad Hatter [Jervis Tetch]; Spook; Scarecrow [Jonathan Crane]; Captain Stingaree; Cavalier [Mortimer Drake]; Cluemaster [Arthur Brown]; Signalman [Phil Cobb]; Batman [Jerry Randall]; Tweedle Dum; Tweedle Dee; Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Riddler [Edward Nigma]; Lex Luthor; Superman; Two-Face [Harvey Dent]; Commissioner Jim Gordon; Arkham Asylum", "synopsis": "The Joker testifies to the circumstances whereby he killed Batman, but when Two-Face demands that the Joker produce the photographic evidence he claims to have, a recess is called. After Two-Face leaves the court, he removes his disguise, revealing the Batman beneath. Having identified the real murderer, Batman confronts the Joker and sends him back to Arkham. Later, Batman confers with Commissioner Gordon and discusses how it was really Batman-admirer Jerry Randall in a Batman costume that the Joker had killed and how the trial was a ruse to discover who was actually responsible.", "notes": "Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.\r\n\r\nStory continues from Batman #293.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "letters page", "title": "", "feature": "Bat-Signals", "sequence_number": 3, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "Bob Rozakis (replies)", "pencils": "None", "inks": "None", "colors": "None", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "S-2746", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Letters of comment from D. B. Webb, Mike White and Charles D. Brown.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "in-house column", "title": "Volume 77 Issue 36 - Week of September 5, 1977", "feature": "Daily Planet", "sequence_number": 4, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "Bob Rozakis", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Information on Aquaman #59, Ghosts #59, comics on sale the week of September 12th, and Ask the Answer Man!", "keywords": "" } ], "cover": "https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/2/w400/2756.jpg" }
