property "first_appearance_characters" in issue not working

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I wanted to cross-link characters and issues based on first appearances. In the character resource I use the property "first_appeared_in_issue" which seems to work fine. However, the corresponding property "first_appearance_characters" in the issue resource, I get lots of characters. I did some tests which suggest that it simply returns all characters appearing in the issue, i.e. it contains the same elements as "character_credits".

For an example, consider the following API call to the first appearance of Tim Drake, the 3rd Robin:

  • http://www.comicvine.com/api/issue/4000-32089/?api_key=<API_KEY>

The resulting first_appearance_characters correctly contain Tim Drake, but also contain Batman.

While working on this, I also noticed that the "api_detail_url" of the "first_appeared_in_issue" property points to

  • "http://www.comicvine.com/api/first_appeared_in_issue/..."

instead of

  • "http://www.comicvine.com/api/issue/..."

However, this is not that bad, as the right URL can be easily reconstructed.