New York Comic Con is here! It’s one of the two greatest comic-cons in the U.S., and it’s one of the top five highest attended events in NYC! As the official retail sponsor for NYCC, we will once again have a huge booth offering everything you need for the ultimate con experience! Some of the highlights include our NYCC exclusive “Batman Arkham City” hat from New Era, a Midtown exclusive Ultimate Spider-Man symbol t-shirt, a bunch of cool creator signings, and of course, a HUGE selection of graphic novels at 20% off!
Extended hours at Midtown Comics in Times Square:
Our Times Square store is a 10 minute walk from the Javits Convention Center, so we’ll be open from 10:00AM to 10:00PM on Friday October 14th and Saturday October 15th, (at Times Square only).
Still need a ticket to NYCC? Midtown’s got you covered! You can purchase tickets to New York Comic Con at all three of our NYC locations. However, we are completely sold out of all passes except 4-day passes — get yours today and attend VIP day with press & pros!
If you’re looking for great deals on graphic novels and trade paperbacks the Midtown Comics booth is for you! Save 20% off all graphic novels and trade paperbacks at our booth all weekend at the con! We’ll have a lot of hot books by many of the creators appearing at NYCC!
Win a chance to meet Frank Miller at the Midtown Comics booth! 15 lucky winners will be selected via three different raffles and will win a copy of Frank Miller’s new book Holy Terror and get to have it signed by the man himself at the Midtown Comics NYCC booth on Saturday! Five tickets will be raffled on our Twitter page, five on our Facebook page, and five at the convention. Be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook for more info and your chance to win!
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FRIDAY
10:30-11:00am Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine, The Nightwatchmen, Orchid)
5:00-6:00 — Christos Gage & Rebekah Isaacs (Angel & Faith)
SATURDAY
11:30-12:00 — Batman Files Signing with writer Matthew Manning
4:00-5:00 — Scott Snyder (Batman, Swamp Thing)
5:45-6:15 — Frank Miller VIP Signing for Holy Terror. Only 15 lucky winners will attend, see contest above.
SUNDAY
1:00-2:00 — Francis Manapul (Flash)
3:00-4:00 — Matt Fraction (Fear Itself, Casanova, Invincible Iron Man, Mighty Thor)
This year Midtown Comics will be the exclusive dealer at NYCC of the new Batman Arkham City hat! We’ll also feature a huge selection of other superhero themed New Era hats!
The Midtown Comics booth will be the exclusive retailer for the new book The Batman Files from Andrew McMeels Publishing and we’ll be having a signing with its writer Matthew Manning on Saturday at 11:30! The Batman Files won’t be available to the rest of the world until October 25th!
We’ll have a great selection of our Midtown Comics exclusive shirts available at NYCC including our Ultimate Spider-Man costume shirt, and HYDRA symbol shirt!
Back-Issue Man Alex Rae will be the Grand Poohbah of our booth, hawking back issues for only FIFTY CENTS EACH (along with some choice comics for a whole lot more than fifty cents)! Alex will be buying back issues as well, and he’s been given carte blanche to spend big bucks on key issues from the golden, silver and bronze ages. Bring Detective Comics #27 or Hot Stuff the Little Devil #1 (Harvey, 1957) with you-he’ll buy them, and almost anything else!
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Thanks and hope to see you all there!
Your friends at Midtown
