NYCC ’25: A TMNT panel, variant covers, and more are on the way from IDW

Publisher IDW is preparing for the big October show, as a slate of NYCC exclusives and more have been revealed today.

Turtles in the city

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles featuring in a panel presentation seems only right. This is NYCC that we’re talking about, and the mean green teens do call the city’s sewers their home.

IDW will have that iconic property on tap too, along with a collection of variants at the booth. Before we get to the latter though, let’s talk Turtles. October 10th will be the date, for the TMNT: What’s Next for the Heroes in a Half-Shell? panel.

That showcase will be hosted by ComicPop’s Sal Crivelli, and it sounds like it’ll be digging deep into IDW’s Turtle-verse. Also, you should probably expect there to be plenty of potential spoilers discussed. The title kind of gives that away. As for the where’s and when’s, fans can look for the show in Room 1C03 at the Javits convention center, starting at 5:15pm (EST).

Moderated by Sal Crivelli of the popular YouTube channel ComicPop, this packed panel will spill all the secrets behind IDW’s best-selling line of TMNT comic books. From the upcoming run by multiple Eisner-winning writer Gene Luen Yang and blockbuster artist Freddie E. Williams II to the fan-favorite multiverse event TMNT: BATTLE NEXUS, fans in attendance will be the first ones to feast their eyes on new artwork, announcements, and so much more.

IDW press release

A booth of exclusives

Along with what you see above, there’s all those exclusives that we mentioned too. Naturally, those will be found at the IDW booth, which will return for 2025’s event. For those who didn’t attend last year, the publisher was absent, but will be roaring back with what IDW VP of Marketing Aub Driver is calling the company’s biggest presence yet.

“As someone who grew up on the East Coast and lived, worked, and studied in New York, returning to NYCC always feels like coming home,” said Aub Driver, VP of Marketing at IDW Publishing. “The fans at this show are unmatched in their passion and energy. We took last year off the floor, which only made us hungrier to come back in full force. This year, we’re bringing our biggest presence yet—with an all-star TMNT panel, an incredible booth, and exclusives fans are going to go wild for.”

IDW press release

And on that last note, we’ve got a hearty look at the exclusives that the company will have stocked for purchase. They’ll run the gamut from Star Trek, to TMNT spinoffs. But it won’t be all big properties, as some great-sounding additional titles will be there too with Event Horizon: Dark Descent, and Return to Sleepy Hollow.

Get an early look at them in the gallery below.

• STAR TREK: THE LAST STARSHIP #1 NYCC exclusive variant by Sean Von Gorman
• STAR TREK: VOYAGER – HOMECOMING #1 NYCC exclusive photo variant
• STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS – THE SEEDS OF SALVATION #1 NYCC exclusive variant by Gregory Maldonado, Anthony Fowler Jr. & Charlie Kirchoff
• TMNT: SHREDDER #1 and TMNT: CASEY JONES #1 NYCC exclusive variants by Amancay Nahuelpan
• EVENT HORIZON: DARK DESCENT #1 NYCC exclusive variant by Rob Carey
• RETURN TO SLEEPY HOLLOW #1 NYCC exclusive variant by Audrey Estok
• 30 DAYS OF NIGHT: FALLING SUN #1 NYCC exclusive variant by Jim Mahfood
• MONSTER HIGH: HOUSE HAUNTERS #1 NYCC exclusive variant by Serena Mercado
• BENEATH THE TREES WHERE NOBODY SEES: RITE OF SPRING #1 NYCC exclusive variant by Jared Cullum