CELEBRATE 30 YEARS WITH UNITED: SH/LADY DEATH, GIANT-SIZED GATECRASHER & SHI/DAREDEVIL 25TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL!
Tonight begins the Comic-Con International in San Diego with Preview Night! Shi-creator Billy Tucci and Crusade Comics are offering several limited-edition exclusives for fans who are unable to attend the world’s greatest comic convention.
SDCC boasts over 175,000 attendees, exhibitors and guests and the entire Crusade Comics crew will be set up at Booth 1801. During the convention, Crusade will be offering SDCC 2025 exclusive editions, prints, original art and specials to convention attendees.
But for those Tucci Troopers who cannot attend Comic-Con, Crusade is offering a limited number of books via their webstore, https://billytucci.com/store-3/.
SHI GOES BIG WITH STRIKING 11” X 17” GATECRASHER #1 GIANT-SIZEDPURE LINE SDCC EDITION!
With Shi: Gatecrasher complete and going off to the printer on July 30, Crusade is offering this exclusive “Pure Line” Edition featuring the black and white artwork and lettering for Gatecrasher. Measuring an astonishing 11” X 17”, the Shi: Gatecrasher #1 (of 2) Giant Sized SDCC Exclusive finds Ana Ishikawa’s trapped within comic book time and must ally with Ran (Billy Tucci’s original concept for Shi), to battle through a cartoonist’s history to find her way back to her daughter, Hotaru. Color cover, 28 pgs. B/W on premium 80lb. paper. Limited to just 199, signed/numbered editions. $35.00 USD
Crusade is also offering Modern-Comic Sized variants of their SDCC Gatecrasher Pure Line Edition is striking chrome Pixie-Dust-Holofoil, (limited to just 30 signed/numbered editions. $75.00 USD) and the Premium Metal Exclusive featuring an actual stainless-steel cover and limited to just 20 signed/numbered editions. $99.00 USD
SHI/DAREDEVIL: HONOR THY MOTHER 25th ANNIVERSARY SDCC EXCLUSIVE!
Celebrating the silver anniversary of one of the 1990’s most celebrated and critically acclaimed Indy/Mainstream comic book crossovers, Crusade Comics is proud to offer this 28-page, full-color Anniversary Edition. The fully remastered Shi/Daredevil: Honor Thy Mother SDCC Exclusive comes with a never-before published cover by Tucci, is limited to just 100 editions and comes signed/numbered by the artist. $30.00 USD.
Also offered is the Shi/Daredevil: Honor Thy Mother SDCC Exclusive Metal Edition comes complete in an actual stainless-steel cover (limited to just 20 signed/numbered editions. F/C $99.00 USD) and the crystal-fleck, holofoil cover reminiscent of stained-glass, Shi/Daredevil: Honor Thy Mother SDCC Exclusive Holofoil Edition. It is limited to just 30 signed/numbered editions. F/C, $75.00 USD
LADY DEATH & SHI “UNITED” FOR COMIC-CON!
Brian Pulido’s Lady Death and Shi share a lot of comics milestones and history. The pair collectively created the genre-changing, “Bad Girls’ movement that many attribute to saving the comics industry after the early 1990’s “speculator boom.”
Now they’re joined forces to offer some of SDCC’s most in demand exclusives, the United: Lady Death/Shi Together Again joint-cover, companion comics, cards and prints!
Crusade is offering the limited-edition exclusives for fans at their booth (1801) and also a choice few to those unable to attend SDCC via their website, https://billytucci.com/store-3/.
This celebratory SDCC United Exclusive of Shi: Way of the Warrior #1 cover art connects with Lady Death: The Reckoning #1, available from Coffin Comics. There are several versions offered from both publishers:
• Premium Edition with striking cardstock cover limited to just 150 copies and signed by Tucci himself! $25 USD
• Chrome Holofoil Edition limited to just 30 signed and numbered copies. $80. USD
• Shi United Embossed Metallic Edition Actual stainless-steel, raised metal cover. Limited to 30 copies. $125 USD
• Pearl Raw Edition. Glistening pearl cover stock accompanied by Tucci’s detailed line art. Signed and limited to just 30 copies! $75 USD
These special edition covers all connects with Lady Death: The Reckoning #1, Also offered is the poster-sized United Lady Death/Shi print, companion Metallic Trading Card, and Shi Print.
ALL THESE EXCLUSIVES ARE AVAILABLE IN LIMITED QUANTITIES – JUST CLICK HERE!
About Billy Tucci
Inkpot Award recipient Billy Tucci is a two-time Eisner-Award winning cartoonist best known for his modern-day samurai saga Shi. Through his company, Crusade Fine Arts, Shi has been printed in five languages and sold more than 3 million comic books. The graduate of New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology has earned the prestigious Diamond Comics Gem Award and has been nominated for five Eisner Awards. In addition to his own creations, Billy’s DC Comics’ graphic novel, Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion, was awarded the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal for its depiction of the real-life 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was comprised of the US Army’s segregated Japanese American soldiers. His earnest retelling of the Christmas story in A Child Is Born has quietly turned into an international blockbuster, winning the Christian Small Publisher Book of the Year Award. Billy’s critically acclaimed Miss Fury: Joy Division saw the return of the Golden Age Icon for Dynamite Comics. He recently released Shi: Return of the Warrior, Shi: Haikyo, Shi: Sakura, Shi: Way of the Warrior Omnibus, Shi: Senryaku Omnibus, Shi: Gatecrasher! and Zombie-Sama via Kickstarter and Indiegogo uniting backers from over fifty countries and bringing Crusade Comics’ crowdfunding campaign totals to over $1,750,000.00.