SECOND WAVE OF SDCC 2025 SHI EXCLUSIVES ARE NOW LIVE AT WWW.BILLYTUCCI.COM!
CELEBRATE 30 YEARS OF SHI & LADY DEATH WITH INTERCONNECTING SDCC COVERS!
GIANT-SIZED GATECRASHER, SHI/DAREDEVIL
25TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL!
…CAN’T MAKE IT TO COMIC-CON? CRUSADE’S GOT YOU COVERED, OFFERING A LIMITED AMOUNT OF OUR SDCC SPECIAL’S!
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It’s the final countdown for Comic-Con International in San Diego! Starting this Wednesday, the world’s greatest comic, media, gaming and pop-culture convention celebrates 53 years with over 175,000 attendees, exhibitors and guests. As always, Shi-creator Billy Tucci and the entire Crusade Comics crew will be set up at booth 1801 (first booth you see when you enter through the B2-C entrance).
During the convention, Crusade will be offering a very limited number #SDCC2025 exclusive editions, prints, plus, trades, comics, original art and specials to convention attendees.
Crusade Comics are offering several limited-edition exclusives for fans who are unable to attend SDCC via their website, billytucci.com.
Celebrate 30 Years of Comic-Con with Lady Death and Shi!
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.”
Both books debuted in 1994, garnering nation-wide media attention and spurned dozens of imitators from both mainstream and independent publishers.
To this day, Lady Death and Shi continue to delight fans the world over through Pulido’s and Tucci’s independent publishing houses, Coffin Comics and Crusade Comics and 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!
United Lady Death #1 will be available at the Coffin Comics booth. (5530), while right across the aisle at booth 1801 Shi, fans and grab their United Shi #1 exclusives at Crusade Comics.
Crusade is also offering a choice few limited-edition exclusives for fans who are unable to attend SDCC via their website, billytucci.com.
UNITED SHI/LADY DEATH SDCC EXCLUSIVES!
This celebratory SDCC United Exclusive of Shi: Way of the Warrior #1 is adorned with superb cover art by Tucci and sublime colors by Wes Hartman. Cover art connects with Lady Death: The Reckoning #1, available from Coffin Comics. Premium cardstock cover limited to just 150 copies and signed by Tucci himself! $25 USD.
SHI: WOTW #1 Shi/Lady Death United Holo-Foil SDCC Exclusive!
Tucci/Hartman art on striking Chrome Holofoil! This cover connects with Lady Death: The Reckoning #1 – Lady Death / Shi United Holo-Foil Edition, offered at the Coffin Comics booth! Signed and limited to just 30 copies! $80 USD.
Shi: WOTW #1 – Shi / Lady Death United Embossed Metallic SDCC Exclusive!
Our Premium SDCC Exclusive! Don’t miss out of this stunning, Tucci/Hartman art on a textured, raised metal cover – you have to see it to appreciate all the detail! !. This cover connects with Lady Death: The Reckoning #1 – Lady Death / Shi United Embossed Metallic Edition, offered at Coffin Comics! Embossed METAL cover signed and limited to just 30 copies. $115 USD.
SHI #1 Pearl Raw SDCC United Exclusive!
Glistening pearl cover stock accompanied by Tucci’s line art -so striking! This cover connects with Lady Death: The Reckoning #1 Pearl Raw Edition, available from Coffin Comics. Arrives signed and limited to just 30 copies! $75 USD.
SIZE DOES MATTER!
SHI GOES BIG WITH STRIKING 11” X 17” GATECRASHER #1 GIANT-SIZED PURE 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.
Starting in 1928, Gatecrasher takes the reader on a thrilling adventure across the many incredible decades, trends, and genres of comic books…a funny book fantasy that sees Ana and Ran experience war, westerns, horror, apes, nazis, space vixens, superheroes, romance, robots, dinosaurs, and you guessed it – zombie bad girls! Color cover, 28 pgs. B/W on premium 80lb. paper. Limited to just 199, signed/numbered editions. $35.00 USD.
Crusade is also offering the Shi: Gatecrasher #1 (of 2) Metal Cover SDCC Exclusive!
Shi: Gatecrasher #1 SDCC Metal Exclusive features an full color, actual stainless-steel cover, 28 B/W interior pages and limited to just 20 signed/numbered editions. $99.00 USD.
Shi: Gatecrasher #1 (of 2) SDCC Exclusive Holofoil Edition
Gloriously covered in chrome pixie-dust-holofoil, the Shi: Gatecrasher Foil Edition comes standard comic book size, with 28 B/W interior pages and limited to just 30 signed/numbered editions. $75.00 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.
GETTING METAL WITH THE RAREST MARVEL DAREDEVIL CROSSOVER COMIC OF ALL TIME!
The 28-page, fully remastered, Shi/Daredevil: Honor Thy Mother SDCC Exclusive Metal Edition comes complete in an actual stainless-steel cover and limited to just 20 signed/numbered editions. F/C $99.00 USD.
SHI/DAREDEVIL #1 SDCC EXCLUSIVE STAINED-GLASS HOLOFOIL EDITION!
Featuring a never-before published crystal-fleck, holofoil cover reminiscent of stained-glass, Shi/Daredevil: Honor Thy Mother SDCC Exclusive Holofoil Edition is Crusade’s most striking Shi cover yet! It is limited to just 30 signed/numbered editions. F/C, $75.00 USD.
ALL THESE EXCLUSIVES ARE AVAILABLE IN LIMITED QUANTITIES BY CLICKING HERE!
About Billy Tucci
Inkpot Award recipient Billy Tucci is an 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 four 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, 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.