This is the third installment in our Red Sonja themed cover galleries, continuing from the first gallery. Below, we present ten selected covers from various comic books, which feature Red Sonja in the presence of tentacles. Beyond cephalopods, we may associate tentacles with the eldritch gods of H.P. Lovecraft. R.E. Howard exchanged letters with Lovecraft and, in his fiction, he referenced the mythos that Lovecraft spearheaded. As such, it is appropriate that tentacles play a recurring role in the adventures of Red Sonja.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (1983)
• publisher: Marvel
• cover artist: Pat Broderick
• writer: Bill Mantlo
• artist: Pat Broderick
• issue: #5 of 13
• release date: January, 1985
• story: The Armies of the Inland Sea!
• commentary: Red Sonja had the opportunity to be offered as sacrifice to a giant octopus.
  
  As an addendum, there are a couple other galleries of notable Red Sonja covers that feature creatures with tentacles, including
  • Introduction: #1
  • Swords of Sorrow: #5
  • 2020: #47
  • Immortal: #46

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Mel Rubi
• writer: Michael Avon Oeming
• artists: Mel Rubi with Steve Sadowski
• issue: #14 of 80
• release date: September, 2006
• cover: B variant
• commentary: Tentacles in the frozen north.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Joe Prado
• writer: Michael Avon Oeming
• artist: Homs
• issue: #21 of 80
• release date: April, 2007
• cover: B variant
• commentary: Tentacles at the conclusion of the "Animals" story arc. In the interior of issue #21, there is an error in cover attributions. The A cover is attributed to Joe Prado but is clearly signed by Mel Rubi. The B variant, shown above, is attributed to Jonathan Luna but is clearly signed by Joe Prado. This mis-attribution is a carry-over from the previous issue, #20, in which Prado and Luna drew the A cover and B variant respectively.

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• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: David Michael Beck
• writer: Michael Avon Oeming
• artist: Homs
• issue: #22 of 80
• release date: May, 2007
• cover: D variant
• commentary: Tentacles at the start of the "Long Way Back Home" story arc.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Mel Rubi
• writer: Michael Avon Oeming
• artists: Homs
• issue: #29 of 80
• release date: January, 2008
• cover: A cover
• commentary: Tentacles in the stairwell.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Carlos Rafael
• writer: Brian Reed
• artists: Walter Geovani
• issue: #39 of 80
• release date: November, 2008
• cover: C variant
• commentary: Tentacles in the underworld.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Fabiano Neves
• writer: Brian Reed
• artists: Walter Geovani
• issue: #44 of 80
• release date: June, 2009
• cover: A cover
• commentary: Tentacles along the quest for the Blood Dynasty.

• title: Queen Sonja (2009)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Lucio Parrillo
• writer: Luke Lieberman
• artists: Milton Estevam
• issue: #33 of 35
• release date: January, 2013
• cover: A cover
• commentary: Tentacles in the struggle against the Atlantean Empire.

• title: Red Sonja (2013)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Stephanie Buscema
• writer: Gail Simone
• artist: Walter Geovani
• issue: #12 of 18
• release date: September, 2014
• cover: E variant
• commentary: Ensnared by tentacles hand and foot.

• title: Red Sonja (2016)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Carlos E. Gomez
• writer: Amy Chu
• artists: Marcio Fiorito and Carlos Gomez
• issue: #6 of 25
• release date: June, 2017
• cover: C variant
• commentary: Tentacles while saving New York from Kulan Gath.