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Characters

Name: Comic Book Co Codex: Characters
Creator: Comic Book Co
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Fictional characters across comics, manga, anime, film and TV, one row per canonical character.

characters.csv

20,483 rows · UTF-8 CSV with a header row

codex.sqlite.gz

this table and every other, as table characters

datapackage.json

schema, primary and foreign keys (Frictionless standard)

All tables

the full catalog

Columns

Column	Type	Meaning
`id`	string	Character id → `entities`
`name`	string	Display name
`real_name`	string	Civilian or given name, where recorded
`universe`	string	Narrative universe (Earth-616, DC Universe, ...)
`gender`	string	As recorded by the source
`description`	string	Short description
`first_appearance_id`	string	Work of first appearance → `entities`
`curated`	boolean	Hand-built and evidence-gated
`wikidata`	string	Wikidata QID
`comicvine`	string	Comic Vine id

Licence and provenance

CC BY 4.0 — cite Comic Book Co Codex, https://comicbookco.com/codex/. The Codex combines Comic Book Co editorial records with rows ingested from Wikidata (CC0 1.0) by deterministic code; the compiled table is published by Comic Book Co under CC BY 4.0.

Last updated 2026-09-06