Issue Instance
API endpoint that allows Issue to be viewed.
GET /api/issue/41366/?format=api
{ "api_url": "https://www.comics.org/api/issue/41366/?format=api", "series_name": "Batman (1940 series)", "descriptor": "395 [Direct]", "number": "395", "volume": "", "variant_name": "Direct", "title": "", "publication_date": "May 1986", "key_date": "1986-05-00", "price": "0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.40 GBP", "page_count": "36.000", "editing": "Len Wein (credited) (editor); Tom Condon (credited) (managing editor)", "indicia_publisher": "DC Comics Inc.", "brand_emblem": "DC [bullet]", "isbn": "", "barcode": "", "rating": "Approved by the Comics Code Authority", "on_sale_date": "1986-01-21", "indicia_frequency": "monthly", "notes": "On-sale date from DC Releases #24.", "variant_of": null, "series": "https://www.comics.org/api/series/141/?format=api", "indicia_printer": "Printed in the U.S.A.", "keywords": "", "story_set": [ { "type": "cover", "title": "", "feature": "Batman", "sequence_number": 0, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "None", "pencils": "Tom Mandrake (signed)", "inks": "Tom Mandrake (signed)", "colors": "Anthony Tollin", "letters": "None", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Film Freak [Burt Weston] (hand only)", "synopsis": "The Film Freak holds a 44 magnum to Batman's head a la Clint Eastwood.", "notes": "Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.", "keywords": "gun-to-head; movies; parody or tribute references" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Film Freak", "feature": "Batman", "sequence_number": 1, "page_count": "22.000", "script": "Doug Moench (credited)", "pencils": "Tom Mandrake (credited)", "inks": "Tom Mandrake (credited)", "colors": "Adrienne Roy (credited)", "letters": "John Workman (credited) (pages 1-2); John Costanza (credited) (pages 3-22)", "editing": "None", "job_number": "G-2909", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "Cary Grant he is not. But an audacious cat burglar he is.", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Robin [Jason Todd]; Alfred Pennyworth; Julia Remarque; Vicki Vale; Police Commissioner James Gordon; Detective Sgt. Harvey Bullock; The Film Freak [Burt Weston]; Mrs. Marsh; India Blue (actress); Al Jacobs (failed actor); Paul Vasseria (film director); Frank (entertainment editor for Picture News)", "synopsis": "Batman and Catwoman team up to track down The Film Freak, a one-time actor turned theatrically-themed thief, while Robin teams up with Harvey Bullock to do the same.", "notes": "Story continues in Detective Comics #562. Story title from Ralf H. Kienzle.\r\n\r\nFirst appearance of The Film Freak. \r\n\r\nThe character of Frank, Picture News entertainment editor, is visually based upon then-popular TV personality and film critic Gene Shalit, known for his distinctive, outsized handlebar moustache. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Shalit\r\n\r\nMETA MOMENT: \r\nTo catch The Film Freak, Robin and Bullock stake-out the North Gotham Art Gallery where valuable movie memorabilia is to be sold at auction. \r\n\r\nBULLOCK: \"Sure wish I could go in there an' browse. I hear they got one o' Bogie's [Humphrey Bogart] hats an' a yellow brick from The Wizard O' OZ.\" \r\n\r\nROBIN: \"And no doubt Burgess Meredith's pointy false nose.\" - referring to Meredith's portrayal of The Penguin on the Batman TV series (1966-1968).", "keywords": "fame-is-fleeting; first appearance of recurring character(s); meta humor; movies; mystery; parody or tribute references" }, { "type": "in-house column", "title": "Meanwhile...", "feature": "Meanwhile...", "sequence_number": 2, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "Dick Giordano (signed as Dick)", "pencils": "None", "inks": "None", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "non-fiction", "first_line": "The Batman, a.k.a.: the Darknight Detective, the Caped Crusader, the Gotham Guardian. And now, starting in March of 1986, THE DARK KNIGHT...", "characters": "", "synopsis": "Dick Giordano writes of his love for the character of Batman since his childhood years of 1941-1942 and introduces the soon-to-be historically groundbreaking graphic novel The Dark Knight, by Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, and Lynn Varley. He also introduces the then-new and unique format for this series of four volumes: \"The books are 48 pages long, full-process separations on good paper with heavy-weight covers, perfect bindings, and square-backed, in every way graphic novels, except they fit in a standard comic book rack. All this for 2.95 each, a bargain any way you look at it!\"", "notes": "The new format that Dick Giordano describes would quickly become an industry-wide standard employed to the present day. Initially dubbed \"The Dark Knight Format\", it soon became known as \"Prestige Format\" - a designation it holds to this day. \r\n\r\nThis column shares the page with \"DC Check List\" (\"On sale week of February 13\") which is located at the very bottom of the page.", "keywords": "background information; Batman; big announcement; editorial feature; Frank Miller; graphic novel; introduction of a new format; Klaus Janson; Lynn Varley; The Dark Knight" }, { "type": "letters page", "title": "Bat-Signals", "feature": "Bat-Signals", "sequence_number": 3, "page_count": "2.000", "script": "Robert Greenberger (credited as Bob Greenberger)", "pencils": "Jim Aparo (Bat-Signals logo image of Batman)", "inks": "Jim Aparo (Bat-Signals logo image of Batman)", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "L-2267", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "Batman (logo)", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Letters of comment from David Seigler, Thomas Roynane, Brian D. Scott, Chad Cayler, Jeff Mitchell, Glen Hald, Juanita S. Wood, Carlos E. Torres Pizarro and Stan Johnston.", "keywords": "editorial feature; letters of comment" } ], "cover": "https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/2/w400/2857.jpg" }
