Issue Instance

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{
    "api_url": "https://www.comics.org/api/issue/41576/?format=api",
    "series_name": "Batman (1940 series)",
    "descriptor": "397 [Direct]",
    "number": "397",
    "volume": "",
    "variant_name": "Direct",
    "title": "",
    "publication_date": "July 1986",
    "key_date": "1986-07-00",
    "price": "0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.40 GBP",
    "page_count": "36.000",
    "editing": "Len Wein (credited) (editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)",
    "indicia_publisher": "DC Comics Inc.",
    "brand_emblem": "DC [bullet]",
    "isbn": "",
    "barcode": "",
    "rating": "Approved by the Comics Code Authority",
    "on_sale_date": "1986-03-18",
    "indicia_frequency": "monthly",
    "notes": "On-sale date from DC Releases #26.\r\n\r\nThe Direct (first printing), Newsstand and Canadian variants have the regular cover differences in pricing, and UPC box contents, but have the same indicia, inside front cover, inside back cover, and back cover content. Some copies contain a 12 page insert for the Mask comic series.\r\n\r\nThe second, third and fourth printing variants were distributed to the direct market only, the content on the inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover varied, with some advertisements having a 1989 copyright date. The content of the UPC box is different from the Direct (first printing) UPC box, while the second and fourth printing have the same UPC content. The indicia for the second and fourth printing have additional text indicating the printing sequence. The indicia of the third printing is identical to the indicia of the first printing.",
    "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": "The Triumph of Two-Face!",
            "feature": "Batman",
            "sequence_number": 0,
            "page_count": "1.000",
            "script": "None",
            "pencils": "Tom Mandrake (signed)",
            "inks": "Tom Mandrake (signed)",
            "colors": "Anthony Tollin",
            "letters": "?",
            "editing": "None",
            "job_number": "",
            "genre": "superhero",
            "first_line": "",
            "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne] (image on coin); Two-Face [Harvey Dent]",
            "synopsis": "",
            "notes": "Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.",
            "keywords": ""
        },
        {
            "type": "comic story",
            "title": "Binary Brains",
            "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 Costanza (credited)",
            "editing": "None",
            "job_number": "G-2516",
            "genre": "superhero",
            "first_line": "",
            "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Harvey Bullock; Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Lucius Fox; Commissioner James Gordon; Robin [Jason Todd]; Two-Face [Harvey Dent] (villain); Circe (disfigured model)",
            "synopsis": "",
            "notes": "Story continues from Detective Comics #563; story continues in Detective Comics #564. Story title from Ralf H. Kienzle.",
            "keywords": ""
        },
        {
            "type": "advertisement",
            "title": "Uncover a MASK Adventure",
            "feature": "M.A.S.K.",
            "sequence_number": 2,
            "page_count": "8.500",
            "script": "?",
            "pencils": "?",
            "inks": "?",
            "colors": "?",
            "letters": "?",
            "editing": "?",
            "job_number": "",
            "genre": "adventure",
            "first_line": "",
            "characters": "MASK",
            "synopsis": "",
            "notes": "Twelve page advertising section promoting MASK merchandise: 1 ad page, followed by a 3.5 page story (see next sequence), then 5.5 more ad pages, and finally a 2 page sweepstakes.\r\n\r\nThis advertisement is inserted in the center of the comic.",
            "keywords": ""
        },
        {
            "type": "comic story",
            "title": "Secret of the Temple",
            "feature": "M.A.S.K.",
            "sequence_number": 3,
            "page_count": "3.500",
            "script": "Joe Orlando (credited) (story); Joey Cavalieri (credited) (script)",
            "pencils": "José Delbo (credited)",
            "inks": "Pablo Marcos (credited)",
            "colors": "Shelley Eiber (credited)",
            "letters": "Agustin Más (credited)",
            "editing": "Joey Cavalieri (credited)",
            "job_number": "",
            "genre": "adventure",
            "first_line": "In a remote part of the tiny country of Monteverde...",
            "characters": "MASK [Bruce Sato; Matt Trakker]; VENOM [Cliff Dagger; Miles Mayhem]; Scott Trakker",
            "synopsis": "",
            "notes": "Part of the 12 page MASK advertising section.  This story follows immediately after the first ad page.",
            "keywords": ""
        },
        {
            "type": "letters page",
            "title": "",
            "feature": "Bat-Signals",
            "sequence_number": 4,
            "page_count": "2.000",
            "script": "Robert Greenberger",
            "pencils": "José Luis García-López",
            "inks": "?",
            "colors": "?",
            "letters": "typeset",
            "editing": "None",
            "job_number": "L-2326",
            "genre": "",
            "first_line": "",
            "characters": "",
            "synopsis": "",
            "notes": "Letters of comment from Darren Johnson, Mic McConnell, John K. Austin, John M. Gallagher, Willie Holmes, Jonathan R. Downing, John Yancura and Eric James Baich.",
            "keywords": ""
        }
    ],
    "cover": "https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/2/w400/2859.jpg"
}