Evil end to fun day at Comic Con

AFTER SPENDING all day hanging with superheroes at New York Comic Con, a 21-year-old man faced off against a real-life villain who slashed his face on the subway in Queens.

“I was having a lot of fun before that,” Anthony Durden told the Daily News. “Next thing I know I was covered in blood on my way back from Comic Con.”

Durden (photo, top) said the A train attack near Rockaway Beach Sunday at 1:30 a.m. was unprovoked — and sudden.

Durden had volunteered to sign up donors at the comic festival for the nonprofit group Oxfam, which works to fight hunger and poverty and had a booth set up there.

He dressed the part, wearing a gray T-shirt and a headband with the symbol of an anime character, Itachi Uchiha.

“This was my first year going,” he said. “I was pretty excited.”

Afterward, Durden took the A train toward home and was seated when the suspect (inset photo) pounced as he texted near the Beach 60th St. station, not far from where Durden lives.

“There was three guys on the train — two of them were sitting down and one of them just slashed me,” he said, holding up his bloodstained shirt as evidence.

“When I looked up, his hand was coming down. He was going for my throat. He cut the left side of my face, all the way down to my lip."

Durden fought back with a green plastic pole he was carrying as part of his costume.

He was able to call 911 and the conductor locked the train, but the suspect managed to pry open a door and run off.

Police continue to search for the slasher, who investigators suspect may be responsible for another knife attack, in which a 21-yearold man was slashed from ear to jawline at the Mott Ave. station in Far Rockaway less than 15 minutes earlier.