Thinking across the board for the widest number of API uses, the main thing missing is a weekly release based resource. If you had a release_date resource an API dedicated to accessing information about new comics would hardly ever have to use any other resource. Searching for volume and issue data would become unnecessary because you are starting from specific information.
What should be included in such a resource is open for debate, but consider it from the perspective of an application telling users which comics are on the shelves on any particular week, and which info they would need to make a decision to purchase it and you couldn't go far wrong.
Obviously, for a mainly crowd sourced database, the information on upcoming issues would be limited but usually there is pretty good data at the beginning of the week on your database.
A great number of applications are mainly interested in current material, and anything that puts that info in the hands of developers in a paged list format would be a godsend.
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