Issue Instance
API endpoint that allows Issue to be viewed.
GET /api/issue/9897/?format=api
{ "api_url": "https://www.comics.org/api/issue/9897/?format=api", "series_name": "Batman (1940 series)", "descriptor": "72", "number": "72", "volume": "", "variant_name": "", "title": "", "publication_date": "August-September 1952", "key_date": "1952-08-00", "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": "1952-06-25", "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 Jungle Batman!", "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": "", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Art credits confirmed by Mortimer, letterer credit by Martin O'Hearn and Joe Desris.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "public service announcement", "title": "Superman Says: \"It's Smart to Check-- And Doublecheck!\"", "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": "Hmm... that youngster on the bike seems...", "characters": "Superman [Clark Kent]", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Inside front cover.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Jungle Batman!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 2, "page_count": "12.000", "script": "David Vern", "pencils": "Bob Kane (Batman and Robin figures only, signed); Lew Sayre Schwartz", "inks": "Charles Paris", "colors": "?", "letters": "Pat Gordon", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "superhero", "first_line": "Have you ever wondered how Batman would...", "characters": "Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; The Sinister Eight [Frenchy Le Doix; Singh Dan; Baron Hengler; Ling Chee; Luigi Verona; Aldo Toledano; Liverpool Kid; Sumatra Joe] (villains); Hurd (villain, submarine commander); Jordan (villain)", "synopsis": "After capturing the feared Sinister Eight, Commissioner Gordon asks the Dynamic Duo to deliver the crooks by radio-controlled ship to their prison at Satan's Island. The ship is torpedoed and sunk during a storm at sea by the Sinister Eight's minions, and all are washed ashore on an island, where Batman and Robin have to avoid capture by the villains before they can capture them.", "notes": "Script credit by Martin O'Hearn, pencil credits verified by Schwartz, and inker credit verified by Charles Paris.", "keywords": "Donna Cruz (a Radoc or experimental radio controlled ship); Satan's Island" }, { "type": "comics-form advertising", "title": "Top Speed Stops Spy", "feature": "\"P-F\" Canvas Shoes; Another Jim Wise Story", "sequence_number": 3, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "?", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "adventure", "first_line": "Stop him!", "characters": "Jim Wise", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "activity", "title": "", "feature": "Quick Quiz", "sequence_number": 4, "page_count": "0.670", "script": "Horace Elmo", "pencils": "Horace Elmo", "inks": "Horace Elmo", "colors": "?", "letters": "Horace Elmo", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "Where is the last harbor of the good ship 'Mayflower'?", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Letterer credit by Craig Delich.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Wildroot Cream-Oil", "sequence_number": 5, "page_count": "0.330", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "?", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "", "feature": "Varsity Vic", "sequence_number": 6, "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; teen", "first_line": "I'd better hurry. I'm meeting Sue at eight!", "characters": "Varsity Vic; Sue; Lois; Ronnie", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "The Legion of Faceless Men!", "feature": "Batman and Robin", "sequence_number": 7, "page_count": "12.000", "script": "?", "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 Bandit [Biff] (villain); The Maskers [Sven Thorson (deep sea diver); Jim Hendrix (test pilot); Gregory Miner (actor); Guy Larabee (actor); Joseph Pardo (fencer)]", "synopsis": "Batman and Robin are asked to join The Maskers, a club whose members wear masks in their occupations. Soon after, a new series of crimes is committed by The Masked Bandit who wears a different occupational mask for each crime, and Batman and Robin must find out if the villain is one of the Maskers.", "notes": "Penciler credit verified by Dick Sprang and inker credit verified by Charles Paris.", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "", "feature": "Private Pete", "sequence_number": 8, "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; military", "first_line": "Being bugler is awful...", "characters": "Private Pete; Johnson", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "advertisement", "title": "", "feature": "Necco Wafers", "sequence_number": 9, "page_count": "0.500", "script": "?", "pencils": "?", "inks": "?", "colors": "?", "letters": "?", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "", "characters": "", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "", "feature": "Peg", "sequence_number": 10, "page_count": "1.000", "script": "Henry Boltinoff (signed)", "pencils": "Henry Boltinoff (signed)", "inks": "Henry Boltinoff (signed)", "colors": "?", "letters": "Henry Boltinoff", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "humor", "first_line": "-And then I ran for a touchdown...", "characters": "Peg", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "text article", "title": "Changing Styles in Magic", "feature": "", "sequence_number": 11, "page_count": "2.000", "script": "David Kahn (credited as Donald King)", "pencils": "Raymond Perry", "inks": "Raymond Perry", "colors": "Raymond Perry ?", "letters": "typeset", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "non-fiction", "first_line": "We are in the Hippodrome -- New York's famous old showplace.", "characters": "Harry Houdini; Sorcar", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Colorist credit by Craig Delich.", "keywords": "Hippodrome" }, { "type": "comics-form advertising", "title": "", "feature": "Dubble Bubble Gum", "sequence_number": 12, "page_count": "0.500", "script": "?", "pencils": "Ray Thompson (signed as Ray T.)", "inks": "Ray Thompson (signed as Ray T.)", "colors": "?", "letters": "?", "editing": "None", "job_number": "", "genre": "children", "first_line": "Today we're going to have a contest!", "characters": "Pud; Sis", "synopsis": "", "notes": "", "keywords": "" }, { "type": "comic story", "title": "", "feature": "Shorty", "sequence_number": 13, "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": "Boo! 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T.)", "inks": "Ray Thompson (signed as R. T.)", "colors": "?", "letters": "?", "editing": "?", "job_number": "", "genre": "", "first_line": "Gee! A new bike!", "characters": "Spike; Gray Shadow; Mrs. Jones", "synopsis": "", "notes": "Back cover.", "keywords": "" } ], "cover": "https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/2/w400/2534.jpg" }
