LIMITED SHI & RAN NYCC EXCLUSIVES CELEBRATES WITH COPPER ANNIVERSARY SIGNED/NUMBERED EDITIONS AND BLIND BAGS!
For Fans Who Cannot Make The NYCC, A Limited Number of Exclusive Specials Are Now Offered Through www.billytucci.com
The 20th New York Comic Con is once again set to take over the Big Apple as it hosts 275,000 artists, exhibitors, and fans at Manhattan’s Jacob Javits Convention Center. To celebrate the nation’s largest comic book convention, Shi-creator Billy Tucci and company are offering several exclusives, including the Shi: Return of the Warrior #2 Copper Anniversary Exclusive (limited to just 99 editions – $25), Copper Spot Foil Special (limited to 30 signed and numbered editions – $60), and the Copper Metal Edition (with actual copper-inspired metal cover and limited to 10 signed and numbered copies – $115) and more!
Signed editions and limited to just 99 copies, the specials include a certificate of authenticity and caps off the celebration of Return of the Warrior’s Copper Anniversary, marking the multi-Eisner Award nominee’s return to mainstream comics and seamlessly intersects with the Ran: Revenge of the Warrior NYCC Exclusive to create a complete image of the two Crusade Femme-Fatales!
RAN ROCKS NYCC!
As fulfillment continues for Tucci’s latest graphic novel, Ran: Revenge of the Warrior, Crusade is proud to offer the Ran: Revenge of the Warrior #2 NYCC Exclusive. The special edition will be as follows: The Ran: Revenge of the Warrior #2 (of 2) Pure Line Edition (limited to 99 signed copies – $25), the striking Ran: Foil Edition (limited to 35 signed number copies – $60) and the ultra-rare Ran: Metal Special (actual stainless-steel cover and limited to just 10 signed and numbered editions – $115). Crusade has also uploaded exclusive NYCC prints, merchandise and original artwork.
NYCC BLIND BAG BONANZA!
For the first time ever, Crusade is offering Special 2026 NYCC Blind Bag Bundle Packs for both comics and prints. Each Blind Print Bag Pack eight random Tucci prints, and at least one NYCC exclusive.
Crusade’s Comics Blind Bag Pack also contains an exclusive embossed holographic polymer trading card, at least one NYCC Exclusive (regular edition, foil or metal!), bonus rare Shi comics and other special accoutrements.
Billy and Crusade Comic’s Executive Director Deborah Tucci will be guests of Hot Flips and will be exhibiting all four days in Artist’s Alley, Booth #HB904.
Again, for those who cannot make the New York Comic Con, www.BillyTucci.com, is offering a limited number of their NYCC Exclusives.
The Tucci’s will also be guests at this Saturday’s Southern New Hampshire Comic Bash in Nashua. This is one of Billy and Deborah’s favorite conventions held at the Nashua Sheraton, right off Route 3 exit 1, from 10am-4pm. Admission is just $5, parking is free and you’ll get to experience a truly intimate old school comic con experience with dealers, artists and guests!
For More Info On The Southern New Hampshire Comic Bash, Click Here!
About Billy Tucci
Inkpot Award recipient and Eisner Award winner Billy Tucci is a 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. 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, Zombie-Sama and Ran: Revenge of the Warrior via Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Zoop and Back Me Bro uniting backers from over fifty countries and bringing Crusade Comics’ crowdfunding campaign gross totals to over $2,000,000.00.