{"api_url":"https://www.comics.org/api/issue/41383/?format=json","series_name":"'Mazing Man (1986 series)","descriptor":"5 [Direct]","number":"5","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":"Alan Gold (editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)","indicia_publisher":"DC Comics Inc.","brand_emblem":"DC [bullet]","isbn":"","barcode":"","rating":"","on_sale_date":"1986-01-21","indicia_frequency":"monthly","notes":"On-sale date from DC Releases #24.\r\n\r\nThis issue was released without Comic Code approval, due to the appearance of Zombies in one of the stories.  [Information from Brian Cronin's Comic Book Legends Revealed column. http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/06/03/comic-book-legends-revealed-263/]\r\n\r\nStory credits for the whole issue are credited as \"secreted by Stephen DeStefano & Bob Rozakis.\" DC Releases #24 (May 1986) states that the two are co-writers. (DC Releases info from David Bachman.)","variant_of":null,"series":"https://www.comics.org/api/series/3161/?format=json","indicia_printer":"Printed in U.S.A.","keywords":"","story_set":[{"type":"cover","title":"Writer's Block","feature":"'Mazing Man","sequence_number":0,"page_count":"1.000","script":"None","pencils":"Stephen DeStefano (signed as SdS)","inks":"Karl Kesel (signed as KK)","colors":"?","letters":"None","editing":"None","job_number":"","genre":"humor","first_line":"","characters":"","synopsis":"","notes":"","keywords":""},{"type":"comic story","title":"Writer's Block","feature":"'Mazing Man","sequence_number":1,"page_count":"10.000","script":"Bob Rozakis; Stephen DeStefano","pencils":"Stephen DeStefano","inks":"Karl Kesel","colors":"Tom Ziuko","letters":"Bob Lappan","editing":"None","job_number":"G-2090","genre":"humor","first_line":"","characters":"","synopsis":"Denton has writer's block and Maze calls everyone to help him.","notes":"Framing sequences pages 1-3, 7, 11, 15-17, 21-22. Story is told continuously with no new titles or chapter breaks.","keywords":""},{"type":"comic story","title":"Writer's Block","feature":"'Mazing Man","sequence_number":2,"page_count":"3.000","script":"Bob Rozakis; Stephen DeStefano","pencils":"José Luis García-López","inks":"Pablo Marcos","colors":"Tom Ziuko","letters":"Bob Lappan","editing":"None","job_number":"","genre":"humor","first_line":"","characters":"","synopsis":"KP pitches a gothic romance story.","notes":"pages 4-6","keywords":""},{"type":"comic story","title":"Writer's Block","feature":"'Mazing Man","sequence_number":3,"page_count":"3.000","script":"Bob Rozakis; Stephen DeStefano","pencils":"Denys Cowan","inks":"Dick Giordano","colors":"Tom Ziuko","letters":"Bob Lappan","editing":"None","job_number":"","genre":"humor","first_line":"","characters":"","synopsis":"Guido pitches a Bond-ish spy story.","notes":"pages 8-10","keywords":""},{"type":"comic story","title":"Writer's Block","feature":"'Mazing Man","sequence_number":4,"page_count":"3.000","script":"Bob Rozakis; Stephen DeStefano","pencils":"Joe Orlando","inks":"Joe Orlando","colors":"Tom Ziuko","letters":"Bob Lappan","editing":"None","job_number":"","genre":"humor","first_line":"","characters":"","synopsis":"Eddie pitches a zombie story.","notes":"pages 12-14","keywords":""},{"type":"comic story","title":"Writer's Block","feature":"'Mazing Man","sequence_number":5,"page_count":"3.000","script":"Bob Rozakis; Stephen DeStefano","pencils":"Kurt Schaffenberger","inks":"Kurt Schaffenberger","colors":"Tom Ziuko","letters":"Bob Lappan","editing":"None","job_number":"","genre":"humor","first_line":"","characters":"","synopsis":"Maze pitches a superhero story.","notes":"pages 18-20","keywords":""},{"type":"in-house column","title":"","feature":"Meanwhile...","sequence_number":6,"page_count":"1.000","script":"Dick Giordano","pencils":"None","inks":"None","colors":"None","letters":"typeset","editing":"None","job_number":"","genre":"","first_line":"","characters":"","synopsis":"Dick promotes a new Batman book called \"The Dark Knight\" by Frank Miller.  Also includes the DC Check List for February 13.","notes":"Appears after page 8 of the story.","keywords":""},{"type":"promo (ad from the publisher)","title":"Get 'Mazing Man in Your Mailbox","feature":"'Mazing Man","sequence_number":7,"page_count":"1.000","script":"?","pencils":"Stephen DeStefano","inks":"Karl Kesel","colors":"?","letters":"?","editing":"None","job_number":"","genre":"humor","first_line":"","characters":"","synopsis":"","notes":"Subscription ad with new art.  Appears before last 2 pages of story. Includes an offer for an autographed copy of issue #1.","keywords":""},{"type":"letters page","title":"","feature":"'Mazing Man","sequence_number":8,"page_count":"2.000","script":"Alan Gold","pencils":"None","inks":"None","colors":"None","letters":"typeset","editing":"None","job_number":"","genre":"","first_line":"","characters":"","synopsis":"","notes":"Letters from Charles D. Brown, C. E. Dinkins, Rajesh Krishnan, S. A. Bennett, Rob Caswell, Dale Coe, Michael Pickens and Hubert E. Hix.","keywords":""}],"cover":"https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/10/w400/10504.jpg"}