Comic Book Heroes

March 4, 2014 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Comic Book Heroes

For those comic book geeks … er, um … collectors in the audience: Marvel Entertainment’s new API allows you to build Marvel Comics apps for your own use. That last part (“for your own use”) was important. You can’t market the apps for revenue. The Disney-owned company is opening up the data from its 75-year publishing history, including cover art, characters, and comic book crossover events, for developers. This “free for all” gives them access to metadata for more than 30,000 comics and 7,000 series. This interesting information came from Upstart Business Journal in their article, “Marvel Comics opens up its metadata for amazing Spider-Apps.”

Marvel’s API can be used only for non-commercial applications, but it should still get the attention of the Sheldons and Leonards out there.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.