You too can be a Hero!

Greetings Barragers,

Trying out a diff font this go round. XD

I hope this post finds you all well. I don't take much time off from work to do .. well ... pretty much anything. Hopefully that speaks more to the fact I enjoy my line of work given I'm not quite ready to go all in and unleash my personal comic on the world. Nyet :) But this .. this right here I do enjoy so I go AFK a few days. I was never a big believer in hunting signatures.. and given this will be my fourth Heroes since getting back into comics, I totally missed out on the days of old where artist and writers were not trying to pay their rent by charging us fee's. But I get it... this line of work is pretty much a hustle. I think it's Mike Choi on instagram that I last saw speaking to that fact. Whatever the case it's cool to meet the men and women behind the curtain. Some of said people are not what you would expect (Good and Bad) but that's life. :)

2026 HeroesCon is this coming weekend. So I wanted to do a last minute "signature round-up" jic it makes you aware of an issue you might want signed in the future. Keep in mind I went HAM these past couple years thinking Id get every key book I had signed... ahhh nope. Be mindful that nickels and dimes add up fast, more so when its ones and tens... Oo. So as with all things hunt related do some research and stalk your prey prior to hitting the trail.

First off let's identify some people of note from the featured guests list. I'll see if I can keep them grouped by Alph order even though I'll be doing some hen pecking through the names. But by all means, go to the main page and browse the full list : bottom right hand corner.

https://www.heroesonline.com/heroescon/

KEY:
*FRIDAY ONLY
**FRIDAY & SATURDAY ONLY
*SATURDAY ONLY
**SATURDAY & SUNDAY ONLY

ARTHUR ADAMS
KAARE ANDREWS
MARK BAGLEY
BRETT BEAN
JOHN BEATTY
ROSE BESCH
BRETT BREEDING
CULLEN BUNN
CHRIS CLAREMONT
JEFF DEKAL
DAVE DORMAN
NICK DRAGOTTA
KYU YONG EOM
STEVE EPTING
DAVID FINCH
RON FRENZ
JENNY FRISON
JOHN GIANG
LARRY HAMA
DANIEL WARREN JOHNSON
JOËLLE JONES
JOE JUSKO
GREG LAND
JAE LEE
RICK LEONARDI
JEPH LOEB
TULA LOTAY
ALEX MALEEV
MIKE McKONE
BOB MCLEOD
JOSHUA MIDDLETON
PHIL NOTO
STEPHANIE PHILLIPS
ROB RETIANO
JOHN ROMITA JR.
LOUISE SIMONSON
WALT SIMONSON
BRIAN STELFREEZE
SCOTT SNYDER**
GODTAIL
ROY THOMAS*
CHRISSIE ZULLO-UMINGA
MARIA WOLF
SKOTTIE YOUNG

Once again not all of the notables and not all my fav's but I pointed out some hot names atm and some OG's; with a small dose of those I just really like and want their sig on something. But most of the names I provided are the heavy hitters.

Reminder, use your tools... you'd be surprised how many books you might own that's had a notable artist or writer apart of it. IE use the search bar in your CLZ comic database and just search like so - "Daniel Warren Johnson" and boom... I'm a huge BRB fan and while looking for over the issues I had, I noticed this 1:25 BRB #5 cover by Nick Dragotta... say whaaaa. It's now in the box to be signed by both of them... and I almost missed it.

Ok now let me point out the ADDITIONAL items I want signed... minus any surprise factors like... yo I'm charging 20 a sig... or I only take cash... yeh that happened after I got looted the year before last by Arthur Adams.

MARK BAGLEY
- Ultimate Fallout #4 - 1st App of Miles Morales. Previously signed by Johnathan Hickman.
- Amazing Spider-Man #361 - First Carnage.

BRETT BEAN
- D'ORC #1 1st / 2nd Prints, #2 - Mostly cause of how hyped the series got. I was all onboard for this series when I first saw it on DCBS... but all the over hype killed my desire for it afterwards.

JOHN BEATTY
- Secret Wars #8 - Cover Artist ... nuff said.

ROSE BESCH
- Phoenix #1 1:50 - You gotta love Rose.
- Doom's Division #1 1:100
- Spider-Versity #1
- ASM #25
- Sorcerer Supreme #1
- Captain Marvel Dark Tempest #1
- OPTIONALS : Draculina (B&W Sketch Var Inc's #1,2)

BRETT BREEDING
- ASM #252 - Nuff Said, Previously signed by Frenz, DeFalco.

CHRIS CLAREMONT
- X-Men Annual #14 - 1st of Gambit (yeh it is too!), Previously signed by Art Adams.
- Star Wars Annual #1 - Walt Simonson did the cover.. boom 2 birds.
- Uncanny X-Men #141 - 1st App of a few, Classic Cover and Story Arc.
- Uncanny X-Men #129 - 1st App of Kitty and Frost.
- Avengers Annual # 10 - 1st App of Rogue, Al Milgrom, Mike Golden art.. more birds 1 stone.

NICK DRAGOTTA / SCOTT SNYDER (You know why they are grouped together)
- Bleeding Hearts #1 2nd Print - Dragotta Only Sig.
- Batman (New 52) # 6 1:25 - 1st App of The Court of Owls - Snyder Only.
- Absolute Batman #1, #2 Ashcan, #2 (1:25 Love Var), #5 (Joelle Jones Var), #7, #9, #16, #19.

KYU YONG EOM
- Poison Ivy #32, #33, #43
- Birds of Prey #24, #26
- Zatanna #1
- Absolute Wonder Woman # 15
- Aquaman #12
- Deathstroke The Term #1
- Justice League Omega Act Special #1

STEVE EPTING
- Captain America #6 B Cover - 1st App of Bucky as Winter Soldier.

DAVID FINCH
- Skinbreaker #1 - Given I have all 8 of the treasury editions but... not the easiest to carry around.
- Aphrodite IX #1 (Wizard World Chicago Var), (Tower Records Var).

JENNY FRISON
- Beauty #1
- Hello Darkness #19, #21
- Neighborhood Watch #1

DANIEL WARREN JOHNSON
- Beta Ray Bill #1 2nd Print - DWJ wrote and did art for this series.
- Beta Ray Bill #5 1:25 - Nick Dragotta Inc Var.

JOËLLE JONES
- Spider-Gwen Ghost Spider #10 1:25 - I love her covers.
- Black Widow #3 1:25 - HTF.
- Exceptional X-Men #1 1:25
- X-Men #7
- Emma Frost The White Queen #5
- OPTIONAL : Arcadia #5

JOE JUSKO
- Lost in Space Annual #1 - 'Bondage' cover from 91.

GREG LAND
- Edge of Spider-verse #5 1:25 - 1st App of Peni Parker

JAE LEE
- The Sentry #1 1:50 - 1st App of The Sentry / The Void. Jae did the internal art.
- The Sentry #1 New Vol.5
- Corpse Knight #1 - Looks like Matthew Roberts, Rico Renzi will both be attending as well.

JEPH LOEB - Heard he charges 20 a sig....
- Superman / Batman #8 - Reintroduced of Supergirl, Previously signed by M.Turner, P.Steigerwald.
- Ultimates 3 #1 1:100 - Joe Mad Var.

TULA LOTAY - AKA Lisa Wood
- Bug Wars: The Spyder Witch Special #1 - A new volume for this series coming out soon.
- This ends tonight #2
- Superman # 28
- Catwoman #83
- Sirens Love Hurts #2, #3
- Absolute Green Arrow #1

ALEX MALEEV - TBH he ranks as my worst in person meet/signature...
- Daredevil #11 B Cover - Harder to find 1st App of Muse.
- Sorcerer Supreme #4

STEPHANIE PHILLIPS - I became her fan by way of her how-to videos on insta
- A man Among Ya #1-6 - Missing the last 2, maybe I'll find them there Oo
- Taarna: The last Taarakian #1 Virgin - Heavy Metal Nostalgia

JOHN ROMITA JR. - I think I heard hes a high charger, this will be my first sig
- Doomquest #1 - such a good throw back style cover.

LOUISE SIMONSON
- The New Mutants #87 - 1st App of Cable.

WALT SIMONSON - YESS this is the one I've waited 4 years for...
- Thor #337, #338 - 1st/2nd Apps of Beta Ray Bill... My man Walt created BRB and did the writing, art and cover for these issues... gotta get that Dinosaur signature!!!!
- Wonder Woman #189 - HTF Newsstand, Previously signed by AH!

GODTAIL
- Nectar #1 Blue Foil Virgin (Limited: 500)
- Cyclops #1
- Gwenpool #1
- Magik #1 (Limited: 1000)
- X-Men #19
- West Coast Avengers #8
- Doctor Strange of Asgard # 2

ROY THOMAS - So I've avoid Roy cause his line gets long and I heard hes a high charger... but I got a book worth it this year.
- Conan the Barbarian #23 x2 - 1st App of Red Sonja.

CHRISSIE ZULLO-UMINGA - Ohh my real life waifu to daifu, everything about Chrissie is cute. You'll instantly become a fan once you meet her. If only I could have beaten Christopher to the punch :)
- Wonder Woman #30
- Justice League Unlimited #16
- Superman #35
- Cinderella: From fable town with love #1, #2 - Chrissie's first work in comics, Previously had her sign issue #3 given her work was so different then I had to ask her about it in person.

I hope this little heads up saves someone a bit of time given Heroes 2026 is less than a week away. JIC anyone is in the NC area for this Con.

Enjoy these warm days now that we got them!

God Bless.

DD