LIMITED SHI: HAIKYO, SPOOKY SECRETS AND “TRICK OR TREAT” MYSTERY COMIC EXCLUSIVES DEBUT AT: 

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October 25, 2024

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BILLY TUCCI LAUNCHES SHI HALLOWEEN EXCLUSIVES!

 LIMITED SHI: HAIKYO, SPOOKY SECRETS AND “TRICK OR TREAT” MYSTERY COMIC EXCLUSIVES DEBUT AT: 

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  GOING YOUTUBE FOR LAUNCH PARTY LIVE TO TODAY, FRIDAY OCTOBER 24^TH AT 1PM EDT/10AM PDT ON THE POPXP:

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Halloween is once again upon us and to celebrate everyone’s favorite horrific holiday, Shi-creator Billy Tucci and company are offering some very rare debut exclusives just in time to trick or treat, the SHI: HAIKYO CHAPTER II EXCLUSIVE EDITIONS and accompanying 11” X 17” print.

Signed, limited editions, numbered 0-99, includes certificate of authenticity. This 32- page, black and white edition caps off Shi’s 30^th Anniversary Celebration. Shi: Haikyo Chapter II, is the terrifying conclusion to the Shi: Return of the Warrior trilogy’s second installment. The book boasts 32 masterfully illustrated black and white pages of story from Billy Tucci and Steven Peros’ indie blockbuster. The cardstock cover colored by Wes Hartman depicts Tucci’s Shi emerging from a doorway of death.

2024 SPOOKY SECRETS HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!

Limited to just 20 editions, this dark and dangerous companion to Sultry Secrets: The Private Commissionssold-out sketchbook, has an additional eight pages of art by Billy Tucci, as commissioned by his fans and publishers. Every 44-page book comes signed by Tucci. $25.00 US.

“Trick or Treat” Mystery Comic Pack!

Limited to just 10 editions, that could contain Crusade’s signature Metal Editions, the ultra-rare, Jewel Editions or even an original Shi: Way of the Warrior #1. Bag and boarded mystery book comes complete with a delightfully witchy Shi mini print cover that hides the secrets within. $25.00 US.

MONSTER METAL!

Crusade Comics is also offering their rarest Shi comic ever (limited to just 15 copies), with the Haikyo: NYCC Exclusive Ceramic Metal Edition features an actual metal cover featuring Shi and a rainbow-colored logo. All books come signed and numbered. 

LAST CHANCE TO FOR NYCC SHI EXCLUSIVES!

Now that the New York Comic Con has come to an end, Crusade Comics is offering a very limited amount of SHI: HAIYKO CHAPTER I – NYCC EXCLUSIVES. The books are available as individual copies or specially paired with the SHI: HAIKYO CHAPTER II HALLOWEEN SPECIAL in reduced package bundles for those who could not attend the world’s largest fan convention.

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About Billy Tucci

Inkpot Award recipient 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 contributed to the Eisner Award Winning, Comics for Ukraine: Sun Flower Seeds and Love Is Love. Billy has also earned the prestigious Diamond Comics Gem Award and his DC Comics’ graphic novel, Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion, was awarded the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal. The Lost Battalion featured the real-life 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was comprised of 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 Iconfor Dynamite Comics. His Crusade Comics has recently released a series of new Shi graphic novels, Return of the Warrior, Haikyo, and Sakura. Crusade as also released the collected editions Shi: Omnibus Vol. 1, Shi: Senryaku Omnibus, Shi: Way of the Warrior Original Art Edition via Kickstarter and Indiegogo uniting backers from over fifty countries and bringing Crusade Comics’ crowdfunding campaign totals to over $1,500,000.00. 

For Additional Information: 

Deborah Tucci

Crusade Fine Arts, Ltd.

support@billytucci.com

You can find Billy Tucci on Twitter, Facebook @billytucci and Instagram @billy_tucci

Visit https://www.billytucci.com.

 LIMITED SHI: HAIKYO #1 NYCC COMIC CON EXCLUSIVE DEBUTS WITH CERAMIC STEEL, SIGNED AND NUMBERED COVERS

For Fans Who Cannot Make The NYCC, A Limited Number Of Specials Are Now Offered Through www.billytucci.com

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 Javits Convention Center. To celebrate the nation’s largest comic book convention, Shi-creator Billy Tucci and company are offering some very rare debut exclusives for NYCC, the SHI: HAIKYO #1 NYCC EXCLUSIVE EDITIONS and accompanying 11” X 17” print.

Signed, limited editions, numbered 0-99, includes certificate of authenticity. This 32- page, black and white edition caps off the celebration of Billy Tucci’s 30th Anniversary in Comics. Shi: Haikyo, (the second graphic novel of the Return of the Warrior trilogy) is 32 masterfully illustrated pages of story and black and white art from Billy Tucci and Steven Peros’ indie blockbuster. Cardstock Cover depicts Tucci’s Shi striding toward the reader over a kaleidoscope of colors and an all-new “I heart Shi NYCC logo”.

LET’S GET METAL!

Crusade Comics is also offering their rarest Shi comic ever (limited to just 15 copies), with the Haikyo: NYCC Exclusive Ceramic Metal Edition features an actual metal cover featuring Shi and a rainbow-colored logo. All books come signed and numbered. 

For those who cannot make the New York Comic Con,  www.BillyTucci.com, is also offering limited, special, reduced– SHI: HAIYKO #1 – NYCC EXCLUSIVE BUNDLES along with a limited number of specials from the 2024 30^TH Anniversary Celebration comic con tour.

About Billy Tucci

Inkpot Award recipient 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 contributed to the Eisner Award Winning, Comics For Ukraine: Sun Flower Seeds and Love Is Love. Billy has also earned the prestigious Diamond Comics Gem Award and his DC Comics’ graphic novel, Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion, was awarded the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal. The Lost Battalion featured the real-life 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was comprised of 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 Iconfor Dynamite Comics. His Crusade Comics has recently released a series of new Shi graphic novels, Return of the Warrior, Haikyo, and Sakura. Crusade as also released the collected editions, Shi: Omnibus Vol. Senryaku Omnibus, Shi: Way of the Warrior Original Art Edition via Kickstarter and Indiegogo uniting backers from over fifty countries and bringing Crusade Comics’ crowdfunding campaign totals to over $1,500,000.00. 

For Additional Information: 

Deborah Tucci

Crusade Fine Arts, Ltd.

support@billytucci.com

You can find Billy Tucci on Twitter, Facebook @billytucci and Instagram @billy_tucci

Visit https://www.billytucci.com.

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Crusade Comics’ Rocketeer: Pavlichenko Special Art Edition Kickstarter races towards the finish line in the campaign’s final 24 hours. Written and illustrated by Eisner-award winning creator, Billy Tucci, Rocketeer: Pavlichenko stands at over 3,800% of its original funding goal and nears unlocking its $20,000.00 Stretch Goal, the Free ROCKETEER TRADING CARD. 

Offered to all contributors who back a physical reward tier, the Trading Card features Billy Tucci’s rendition of the Rocketeer, bolding standing over a tattered Nazi flag while defiantly wielding his trademark, “broomhandle” Mauser C96.

Billy and Deborah Tucci for The Rocketeer Kickstarter Close-Out Stream Friday, October 4, 3pm EDT/12pm PDT on YouTube!

Join Billy and Deborah Tucci as they welcome special guests for the Kickstarter close out stream, Friday October 3, 2024, on YouTube. The Tucci’s will answer all questions regarding Pavlichenko, celebrate the campaign’s amazing success and the project’s fulfillment.

Rocketeer: Pavlichenko Special Art Edition!  features Tucci’s the original story that appeared the Eisner Award winning in Comic For Ukraine: Sunflower Seeds, plus pages of never-before published concept artwork, including rough layouts, pencils, inks, and script. 

In Rocketeer: Pavlichenko, our hero, Cliff Secord, encounters the real-life, Ukrainian sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko in the Crimean Mountains during World War II. Lyudmila was credited with over 300 kills during World War II, making her the most successful female sniper in recorded history and as you’ll find out, she is going to have to put all those skills to the test to save our hero.

The 32-page full-color art special also explores just who this extraordinary young Ukrainian woman was and pays tribute the Rocketeer’s legendary creator, Dave Stevens.

Rocketeer: Pavlichenko Special Art Edition is also currently LIVE on Indiegogo and can be found here:

https://igg.me/at/SHISECONDCOMING/x/20487910#

Kickstarter Link Here:

http://kck.st/4gigiQl

https://www.davestevens.com

Rocketeer is © & ™ 2024 The Rocketeer Trust.

About Billy Tucci

Inkpot Award recipient 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 contributed to the Eisner Award Winning, Comics For Ukraine: Sun Flower Seeds and Love Is Love. Billy has also earned the prestigious Diamond Comics Gem Award and his DC Comics’ graphic novel, Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion, was awarded the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal. The Lost Battalion featured the real-life 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was comprised of 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 Iconfor Dynamite Comics. His Crusade Comics has recently released a series of new Shi graphic novels, Return of the Warrior, Haikyo, and Sakura. Crusade as also released the collected editions, Shi: Omnibus Vol. Senryaku Omnibus, Shi: Way of the Warrior Original Art Edition via Kickstarter and Indiegogo uniting backers from over fifty countries and bringing Crusade Comics’ crowdfunding campaign totals to over $1,500,000.00. 

For Additional Information: 

Deborah Tucci

Crusade Fine Arts, Ltd.

support@billytucci.com

You can find Billy Tucci on Twitter, Facebook @billytucci and Instagram @billy_tucci

Visit https://www.billytucci.com.

http://kck.st/4gigiQl

With less than 50 hours remaining, Rocketeer: Pavlichenko’s Kickstarter is knocking on the door to unlock it’s $20,000.00 Stretch Goal, the FREE TRADING CARD. Offered to all contributors who back a physical reward tier, the Trading Card features Billy Tucci’s rendition of the Rocketeer, bolding standing over a tattered Nazi flag while defiantly wielding his trademark, “broomhandle” Mauser C96.

Join Writer/Artist Billy Tucci alongside The Rocketeer Trust’s Jennifer Stevens Bawcum LIVE Tonight 9pm EDT/6pm PDT on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/live/_5iS0SAdb

Join Billy Tucci, Gemstone Publishing President, J.C. Vaughn and the Rocketeer Trust’s Jennifer Stevens Bawcum Tonight LIVE 9pm EDT/6pm PDT for a special look back and what wonders lie ahead for Rocketeer creator Dave Stevens, whose legacy lives on at his official website, https://www.youtube.com/live/_5iS0SAdb.

The group will discuss in detail, Dave’s amazing life, and how his art and creations still soar to new heights online through books, prints and merchandising. 

Rocketeer: Pavlichenko Special Art Edition is also currently LIVE on Indiegogo and can be found here:

https://igg.me/at/SHISECONDCOMING/x/20487910#

Kickstarter Link Here:

http://kck.st/4gigiQl

https://www.davestevens.com

Rocketeer is © & ™ 2024 The Rocketeer Trust.

About Billy Tucci

Inkpot Award recipient 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 contributed to the Eisner Award Winning, Comics For Ukraine: Sun Flower Seeds and Love Is Love. Billy has also earned the prestigious Diamond Comics Gem Award and his DC Comics’ graphic novel, Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion, was awarded the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal. The Lost Battalion featured the real-life 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was comprised of 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 Iconfor Dynamite Comics. His Crusade Comics has recently released a series of new Shi graphic novels, Return of the Warrior, Haikyo, and Sakura. Crusade as also released the collected editions, Shi: Omnibus Vol. Senryaku Omnibus, Shi: Way of the Warrior Original Art Edition via Kickstarter and Indiegogo uniting backers from over fifty countries and bringing Crusade Comics’ crowdfunding campaign totals to over $1,500,000.00. 

For Additional Information: 

Deborah Tucci

Crusade Fine Arts, Ltd.

support@billytucci.com

You can find Billy Tucci on Twitter, Facebook @billytucci and Instagram @billy_tucci

Visit https://www.billytucci.com.