NYCC COMIC CON STARTS TOMORROW!
For Immediate Release:
October 7, 2026
Bayport, NY
CRUSADE COMICS OFFERS NEW YORK COMIC CON EXCLUSIVES VIA WWW.BILLYTUCCI.COM!
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 ofExclusive 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 $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!
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.
RAN FOIL AND METAL EDITIONS ROCK NYCC!
Ran: Revenge of the Warrior #2 NYCC Exclusive Metal Cover!
As the Ran: Revenge of the Warrior Newsprint Editions, T-Shirts and Challenge Coins begin arriving at Crusade’s fulfillment office for shipping, Billy and Deborah Tucci are excited to offer several Ran: Revenge of the Warrior #2 NYCC Exclusives.
The special editions 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.
The Tucci’s 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 here: https://billytucci.com/product-category/new/
RAN FULFILLMENT CONTINUES!
Ran: Revenge of the Warrior #1 Newsprint Editions!
A LETTER FROM BILLY TUCCI
Dear Backer,
A quick update but first THANK YOU to all who pledged for the Ran: Revenge of the Warrior #1/Mortuary Michelle: Spectral Awakening #0 campaign.
Ran: Revenge of the Warrior Newsprint Editions Are Spectacular! As of today, we’ve shipped out over 1,000 rewards to our combined #NoFanLeftBehind backers and are thrilled for our next chapter of fulfillment as the Ran Challenge Coins have arrived with T-Shirts and Newsprint Editions production begun with the first batches coming in this week.
After a lot of tweaking, your Ran all-over T-shirts are also being produced and shipped to us.
DID YOU MISS THE RAN KICKSTARTER? WANT TO ADD A NEW REWARD TO IT? WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED WITH THE RAN/MORTUARY MICHELLE BACK ME BRO EXCLUSIVE!
While Deborah’s busy fulfilling, we’re also excited to announce that we’ve launched the limited edition Exclusive Ran: Revenge of the Warrior #1/Mortuary Michelle: Spectral Awakening #0 Special Edition on the new crowdfunding platform BACK ME BRO!
The campaign doesn’t just include the exclusive edition but also several “second chance” rewards for missed edition of Ran and of Shi: Gatecrasher and Shi: Senryaku! There’s just nine days remaining for this campaign and once we have our numbers the book will immediately go to press and the missed perks that are already produced fulfilled lickety-split!
https://backmebro.com/project/crusade-comics/ran-revenge-of-the-warrior-back-me-bro-exclusive
Again, thank you all for your continued faith. I’m off to this week’s NYCC for all four days (Deb will make an appearance but she’s got your products to pack and ship) and I hope to see many of you this weekend in New York City.
Domo Arigato,
Billy Tucci
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.
For Additional Information:
Deborah Tucci
Crusade Fine Arts, Ltd.
support@billytucci.com
You can find Billy Tucci on Facebook: @billytucci and Instagram and X: @billy_tucci
