Issue Instance
API endpoint that allows Issue to be viewed.
GET /api/issue/9751/?format=api
{ "api_url": "https://www.comics.org/api/issue/9751/?format=api", "series_name": "Batman (1940 series)", "descriptor": "71", "number": "71", "volume": "", "variant_name": "", "title": "", "publication_date": "June-July 1952", "key_date": "1952-06-00", "price": "0.10 USD", "page_count": "52.000", "editing": "Whitney Ellsworth (credited) (editor)", "indicia_publisher": "National Comics Publications Inc.", "brand_emblem": "Superman DC National Comics", "isbn": "", "barcode": "", "rating": "", "on_sale_date": "1952-04-16", "indicia_frequency": "bi-monthly", "notes": "On-sale date from copyright registration.", "variant_of": null, "series": "https://www.comics.org/api/series/141/?format=api", "indicia_printer": "", "keywords": "", "story_set": [ { "type": "cover", "title": "The Jail for Heroes!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 0, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "Win Mortimer", "inks": "Win Mortimer", "colors": "?", "letters": "Ira Schnapp", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "Ha, ha, ha!", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Sheriff Hunter; State Trooper Green", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Art credits verified by Mortimer and letterer credit by Martin O'Hearn and Joe Desris.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "public service announcement", "title": "Superman Says: \"Hop on the Welfare Wagon!\"", "feature": "Superman", "sequence_number": 1, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "Jack Schiff", "pencils": "Win Mortimer", "inks": "Win Mortimer", "colors": "None", "letters": "Ira Schnapp", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "advocacy; superhero", "first_line": "Say, Mr. Stanton, I hear Superman's...", "characters": "Superman [Clark Kent]; Mr. Stanton", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Inside front cover.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Jail for Heroes!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 2, "page_count": "12.000", "script": "John Broome ?", "pencils": "Bob Kane (Batman and Robin figures only); Lew Sayre Schwartz", "inks": "Stan Kaye", "colors": "?", "letters": "Ira Schnapp", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Scar Brink (villain, introduction); Bronson; Sergeant Blake Hanson; Sheriff Jeff Hunter; Howard Green; Lieutenant Arnold; Squeeker; Joe Pearson", "synopsis": "Scar Brink creates a prison where he locks up members of law enforcement, and his prize prisoners are Batman and Robin.", "notes": "Writer confirmed by Martin O'Hearn. Penciler credits verified by Schwartz to Craig Delich.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "What Sparks a Champion Sparks You!", "feature": "Wheaties", "sequence_number": 3, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "?", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "Ted Williams", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comics-form advertising", "title": "", "feature": "Dubble Bubble Gum", "sequence_number": 4, "page_count": "0.500", "script": "?", "pencils": "Ray Thompson", "inks": "Ray Thompson", "colors": "?", "letters": "?", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "children", "first_line": "Boy! He's excited!", "characters": "Pud", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "", "feature": "Shorty", "sequence_number": 5, "page_count": "0.500", "script": "Henry Boltinoff (signed)", "pencils": "Henry Boltinoff (signed)", "inks": "Henry Boltinoff (signed)", "colors": "?", "letters": "Henry Boltinoff", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "humor", "first_line": "A suit? Right this way, sir!", "characters": "Shorty", "synopsis": "Shorty looks to buy a new suit.", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "Commissioner Gordon's Greatest Case!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 6, "page_count": "12.000", "script": "David Vern", "pencils": "Dick Sprang", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Pat Gordon", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; The Masked Mystic [Gil Golen] (villain, introduction); Pete the Phantom; Harry the Torch; James Bartley; Mrs. Gordon (Gordon's wife); Finley (Gordon's butler)", "synopsis": "Commissioner Gordon sets out to uncover Batman's secret identity.", "notes": "Writer credit by Martin O'Hearn, penciler credit verified by Sprang, and inker credit verified by Paris.\r\n\r\nGordon's wife is shown but not named, it is mentioned that they have a son (also not named) who is away at college.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comics-form advertising", "title": "Case of the Crossed-Up Car Crook", "feature": "\"P-F\" Canvas Shoes; Another Jim Wise Story", "sequence_number": 7, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "?", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "adventure", "first_line": "My car!", "characters": "Jim Wise; Mr. Flynn", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "", "feature": "Private Pete", "sequence_number": 8, "page_count": "0.750", "script": "Henry Boltinoff (signed)", "pencils": "Henry Boltinoff (signed)", "inks": "Henry Boltinoff (signed)", "colors": "?", "letters": "Henry Boltinoff", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "humor; military", "first_line": "This is the first time I'm cleaning up around my bunk for inspection!", "characters": "Private Pete", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Wildroot Cream-Oil", "sequence_number": 9, "page_count": "0.250", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "", "feature": "Jerry the Jitterbug", "sequence_number": 10, "page_count": "2.000", "script": "Henry Boltinoff (signed)", "pencils": "Henry Boltinoff (signed)", "inks": "Henry Boltinoff (signed)", "colors": "?", "letters": "Henry Boltinoff", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "humor; 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Mr. Cipher (villain, introduction, death); Big Ed Yakers [also as John Newman] (villain, death); Picadilly Pete (villain); Cassidy; Joe; Pink; Marty; Lefty", "synopsis": "Rumors circulate that Batman is letting criminals go free who have paid him off, but it is all part of a scheme to track the mysterious Mr. Cipher, who helps crooks escape the law by giving them plastic surgery and setting them up with new identities.", "notes": "Penciler credits verified by Schwartz and inker credit verified by Paris.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Wheaties", "sequence_number": 16, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "?", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "Bob Feller; George Mikan", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "activity", "title": "", "feature": "Quick Quiz", "sequence_number": 17, "page_count": "0.670", "script": "Horace Elmo (signed)", "pencils": "Horace Elmo (signed)", "inks": "Horace Elmo (signed)", "colors": "?", "letters": "Horace Elmo", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "non-fiction", "first_line": "Is it possible to destroy matter?", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Letterer credit by Craig Delich.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "Out of This World", "feature": "Necco Wafers", "sequence_number": 18, "page_count": "0.330", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "?", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "promo (ad from the publisher)", "title": "", "feature": "Star Spangled Comics; House of Mystery", "sequence_number": 19, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "None", "letters": "?", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "The oldest symbol in comics...", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Inside back cover.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns", "sequence_number": 20, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "Fred Harman (signed)", "inks": "Fred Harman (signed)", "colors": "?", "letters": "?", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "Red Ryder", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Back cover.", "keywords": "" } ], "cover": "https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/2/w400/2533.jpg" }
