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Comic Vine SDK

Resources

The SDK exposes an object for each Comic Vine resource. Each object provides a retrieve() method for fetching a single item and a list() method for fetching paginated results. See the official Comic Vine API documentation for full endpoint details.

Characters & People

Section titled “Characters & People”

Character

Comic book characters (heroes, villains, etc.)

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Comics & Publishing

Section titled “Comics & Publishing”

Concepts & Lore

Section titled “Concepts & Lore”

Origin

Character origin types (Human, Alien, Robot, etc.)

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Media

Section titled “Media”

Other

Section titled “Other”

Common Types

Section titled “Common Types”

The following shared types are referenced across multiple resource response interfaces. They represent recurring structures in the Comic Vine API.

ApiResource

Section titled “ApiResource”

A minimal reference to another API resource.

interface ApiResource {
  apiDetailUrl: string;
  id: number;
  name: string | null;
}

SiteResource

Section titled “SiteResource”

Extends ApiResource with a link to the Comic Vine website.

interface SiteResource extends ApiResource {
  siteDetailUrl: string;
}

IssueApiResource

Section titled “IssueApiResource”

An issue reference that includes the issue number.

interface IssueApiResource extends ApiResource {
  issueNumber: string;
}

IssueSiteResource

Section titled “IssueSiteResource”

An issue reference with both site URL and issue number.

interface IssueSiteResource extends SiteResource {
  issueNumber: string;
}

SiteResourceWithCount

Section titled “SiteResourceWithCount”

A site resource with a count property (used in volume/series credits).

interface SiteResourceWithCount extends SiteResource {
  count: string;
}

EpisodeApiResource

Section titled “EpisodeApiResource”

An episode reference that includes the episode number.

interface EpisodeApiResource extends ApiResource {
  episodeNumber: string;
}

EpisodeSiteResource

Section titled “EpisodeSiteResource”

An episode reference with both site URL and episode number.

interface EpisodeSiteResource extends SiteResource {
  episodeNumber: string;
}

PersonCreditSiteResource

Section titled “PersonCreditSiteResource”

A person credit reference that includes their role.

interface PersonCreditSiteResource extends SiteResource {
  role: string;
}

Death

Section titled “Death”

Represents a death date with timezone information.

interface Death {
  date: string;
  timezoneType: number;
  timezone: string;
}

AssociatedImage

Section titled “AssociatedImage”

An additional image associated with a resource.

interface AssociatedImage {
  caption: null;
  id: number;
  imageTags: string;
  originalUrl: string;
}

Image

Section titled “Image”

The standard image object returned for most resources, containing URLs at various sizes.

interface Image {
  iconUrl: string;
  mediumUrl: string;
  screenUrl: string;
  screenLargeUrl: string;
  smallUrl: string;
  superUrl: string;
  thumbUrl: string;
  tinyUrl: string;
  originalUrl: string;
  imageTags: string;
}