Name: Comic Book Characters Dataset
Creator: FiveThirtyEight
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

About this Dataset

Comic Book Characters Dataset

This dataset contains information about characters from both the Marvel and DC universes, collected from the respective Wikias.

It includes demographic details such as gender, eye and hair color, alignment (good, bad, neutral), sexual and gender minority status, and whether the character is alive or deceased.

It also tracks each character's number of comic book appearances, their first appearance date, and their identity type (e.g., secret or public identity).

Data was scraped between August and October 2014.

Tables

DC Comic Book Characters Data

@fivethirtyeight.comic_characters.dc_wikia_data

296.58 kB
6,896 rows
13 columns

CREATE TABLE dc_wikia_data (
  "page_id" BIGINT,
  "name" VARCHAR,
  "urlslug" VARCHAR,
  "id" VARCHAR,
  "align" VARCHAR,
  "eye" VARCHAR,
  "hair" VARCHAR,
  "sex" VARCHAR,
  "gsm" VARCHAR,
  "alive" VARCHAR,
  "appearances" DOUBLE,
  "first_appearance" VARCHAR,
  "year" DOUBLE
);

Marvel Comic Book Characters Data

@fivethirtyeight.comic_characters.marvel_wikia_data

692.06 kB
16,376 rows
13 columns

CREATE TABLE marvel_wikia_data (
  "page_id" BIGINT,
  "name" VARCHAR,
  "urlslug" VARCHAR,
  "id" VARCHAR,
  "align" VARCHAR,
  "eye" VARCHAR,
  "hair" VARCHAR,
  "sex" VARCHAR,
  "gsm" VARCHAR,
  "alive" VARCHAR,
  "appearances" DOUBLE,
  "first_appearance" VARCHAR,
  "year" DOUBLE
);