{"api_url":"https://www.comics.org/api/issue/3231/?format=json","series_name":"Batman (1940 series)","descriptor":"19","number":"19","volume":"","variant_name":"","title":"","publication_date":"October-November 1943","key_date":"1943-10-00","price":"0.10 USD","page_count":"60.000","editing":"Whitney Ellsworth (credited as F. W. 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