comic_characters.RdThe raw data behind the story "Comic Books Are Still Made By Men, For Men And About Men" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/women-in-comic-books/. An analysis using this data was contributed by Jonathan Bouchet as a package vignette at https://fivethirtyeight-r.netlify.app/articles/comics_gender.html.
comic_characters
The dataset is a data frame with 23,272 rows representing characters and 16 variables:
Comic publisher: DC Comics or Marvel
The unique identifier for that characters page within the wikia
The name of the character
The unique url within the wikia that takes you to the character
The identity status of the character (Secret Identity, Public identity, (on marvel only: No Dual Identity)
If the character is Good, Bad or Neutral
Eye color of the character
Hair color of the character
Sex of the character (e.g. Male, Female, etc.)
If the character is a gender or sexual minority (e.g. Homosexual characters, bisexual characters)
If the character is alive or deceased
The number of appearances of the character in comic books (as of Sep. 2, 2014. Number will become increasingly out of date as time goes on.)
The month and year of the character's first appearance in a comic book, if available
The month of the character's first appearance in a comic book, if available
The year of the character's first appearance in a comic book, if available
The date of the character's first appearance in a comic book, if available
DC Wikia https://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page and Marvel Wikia https://marvel.wikia.com/Main_Page. Characters were scraped on August 24, 2014. Appearance counts were scraped on September 2, 2014. The month and year of the first issue each character appeared in was pulled on October 6, 2014.