24 comic-characters.csv

The data in comic-characters.csv contains data on 14 attributes for 23,272 comic characters. These data were scraped in 2014 from from Marvel Wikia and DC Wikia by FiveThirtyEight and used in the story Comic Books Are Still Made By Men, For Men And About Men. The variables are:

character: The name of the character
comic: If the character appears in DC Comics or Marvel Comics
reality: Comic reality the character appears in
identity: The identity status of the character (Secret Identity, Public identity, No Dual Identity)
alignment: If the character is Good, Bad or Neutral
eye_color: Eye color of the character
hair_color: Hair color of the character
sex: Sex of the character (e.g. Male, Female, etc.)
lgbtq: If the character is identified as LGBTQ
lgbtq_note: Additional information if the character is identified as LGBTQ
alive: If the character is alive or deceased
appearances: The number of appearances of the character in comic books (as of September 2, 2014)
first_appear_date: The month and year of the character’s first appearance in a comic book, if available
first_appear_year: The year of the character’s first appearance in a comic book, if available

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Code

# Import Data
comics = readr::read_csv(file = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zief0002/modeling/main/data/comic-characters.csv")

# View data
comics

ABCDEFGHIJ0123456789

character <chr>	comic <chr>	reality <chr>	identity <chr>	alignment <chr>	eye_color <chr>	hair_color <chr>	sex <chr>	lgbtq <chr>	lgbtq_note <chr>
14	Marvel	Earth-616	Secret Identity	Bad	NA	NA	Female	No	NA
88	Marvel	Earth-616	Public Identity	Bad	Blue	Blond	Male	No	NA
99	Marvel	Earth-616	Secret Identity	Neutral	Blue	NA	Male	No	NA
107	Marvel	Earth-616	Secret Identity	Neutral	Green	NA	Male	No	NA
'Spinner	Marvel	Earth-616	Secret Identity	Good	NA	NA	Male	No	NA
"Thumper" Morgan	Marvel	Earth-616	Secret Identity	Bad	NA	Bald	Male	No	NA
11-Ball	Marvel	Earth-616	Secret Identity	Bad	NA	NA	Male	No	NA
115 (Legion Personality)	Marvel	Earth-616	Secret Identity	Neutral	Blue	White	Female	No	NA
181 (Legion Personality)	Marvel	Earth-616	Secret Identity	Neutral	NA	NA	NA	No	NA
1X	Marvel	Earth-616	Public Identity	Good	NA	Blond	Male	No	NA