A Red Sonja Cover Gallery




A Red Sonja Cover Gallery VII: Horsewoman



	This is the seventh installment in our Red Sonja themed cover galleries, continuing from the first gallery. Below, we present twenty selected covers from various comic books, which feature Red Sonja on horseback. Although the Hyrkanians were not known as horsemen, Red Sonja quickly adapted to battle from horseback. The number of covers featuring Red Sonja astride a horse are so numerous that we were forced to double this gallery from the usual ten covers sufficient to describe other themes to twenty covers here. Even then we omitted many worthy covers.



	1 title: Marvel Feature presents Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (1975) publisher: Marvel cover artists: Frank Thorne and John Romita writer: Bruce Jones artist: Frank Thorne issue: #2 of 7 release date: January, 1976 story: Blood of the Hunter cover: A cover commentary: In the second issue of the first series to feature Red Sonja, Frank Thorne captures Red Sonja, sword in one hand and axe in the other, riding down a neanderthal horde.



	2 title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (1983) publisher: Marvel cover artist: Rudy Nebres writer: Bill Mantlo artist: Rudy Nebres issue: #7 of 13 release date: March, 1985 story: Harvest! cover: A cover commentary: In issue #7 of what is called the third Marvel series of Red Sonja (not counting the Marvel Feature shown above), Rudy Nebres portrays Red Sonja on horseback with sword and shield battling warriors of Khitai, a far-eastern nation of the Hyborian Age.



	3 title: Classic Red Sonja Re-Mastered publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Pablo Marcos writer: Roy Thomas artist: Esteban Maroto issue: #4 of 4 release date: September, 2010 story: The Ring of Ikribu cover: A cover commentary: This series is a colorized reissue (in comic book format) by Dynamite of the Red Sonja story included in Marvel's The Savage Sword of Conan magazine issues 230 through 233, originally published from February through May, 1995. Here she defends herself as she is ambushed by a group of snakemen. We have featured covers from Classic Red Sonja Re-Mastered in galleries with themes including Horsewoman: #3 Decapitation: #11 Marcos: #5 2009 & 2010: #2



	4 title: Red Sonja: One More Day publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Liam Sharp writers: Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray artist: Liam Sharp issue: one-shot release date: November, 2005 cover: A cover commentary: In this cover to the one-shot, One More Day, Liam Sharp presents an homage to Frank Frazetta, evoking thoughts of his 1973 painting Death Dealer. We have featured covers by Liam Sharp in galleries with various themes, including Horsewoman: #4 2005: #10 2007: #20 2022: #18



	5 title: Red Sonja: Break the Skin publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Phil Winslade writers: Jen Van Meter artist: Edgar Salazar issue: one-shot release date: April, 2011 cover: A cover commentary: Phil Winslade portrays Red Sonja, sword and reins in hand, on a rearing sable mare. The orange, predawn light foreshadows a day of blood-letting. To our knowledge this is the only cover art for Red Sonja: Break the Skin and is the only Red Sonja cover by Phil Winslade.



	6 title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Mike Perkins writer: Michael Avon Oeming artists: Mel Rubi & Pablo Marcos issue: #9 of 80 release date: April, 2006 cover: B variant commentary: In this cover by Mike Perkins from the definitive 80-issue series from Dynamite, Red Sonja wields the Hungarian sabre with which she is initially described by R.E. Howard in The Shadow of the Vulture (1934).



	7 title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Pablo Marcos writer: Michael Avon Oeming artists: Mel Rubi & Lee Moder issue: #11 of 80 release date: June, 2006 cover: D variant commentary: In the cover shown here, the horse has problems of its own during battle. Red Sonja is never depicted as developing a lasting attachment to any particular steed.



	8 title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Mel Rubi writer: Michael Avon Oeming artists: Mel Rubi & Stephen Sadowski issue: #13 of 80 release date: August, 2006 cover: B variant commentary: Mel Rubi captures a quiet moment with Red Sonja and a warhorse.



	9 title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Steve McNiven writer: Michael Avon Oeming artists: Mel Rubi & Stephen Sadowski issue: #15 of 80 release date: October, 2006 cover: A cover commentary: In this cover by Steve McNiven, the stallion is adorned in scale barding similar in style, though greater in coverage, as that which Red Sonja dons.



	10 title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005) publisher: Dynamite cover artist: Erik Jones writer: Eric Trautmann artists: Marcio Abreu issue: #75 of 80 release date: May, 2013 cover: B variant commentary: To celebrate the 75^th issue, Erik Jones portrays Red Sonja diving headlong into battle, only partially in control of her warhorse.



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