This is the eleventh installment in our Red Sonja themed cover galleries, continuing from the first gallery. Below, we present twenty selected covers from various comic books, in which the artist portrayed Red Sonja as a queen seated on a throne.

• title: Red Sonja: Death in Scarlet (1999)
• publisher: Crossplains
• cover artist: Steve Lightle
• writers: Roy Thomas
• artist: Steve Lightle
• issue: one-shot
• release date: September, 1999
• cover: A cover
• commentary: Between the time when the third Marvel Series titled Red Sonja ended in May, 1986 and when Dynamite began publishing its definitive eighty-issue series in April, 2005, there were only a few appearances of Red Sonja. She sporadically appeared in the black and white Savage Sword of Conan magazine, with her last appearance in issue #233 in May, 1995. In this interim, there appear to be three Red Sonja one-shots before the Dynamite era, including Red Sonja 3-D (October, 1988) from the short-lived Blackthorne Publishing and Red Sonja: Scavenger Hunt (December, 1995) from Marvel. The last of these is Red Sonja: Death in Scarlet, pictured above, from Crossplains in 1999. In this cover, her armor is given a golden hue, as befitting a queen upon a throne.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Mel Rubi
• writers: Michael Avon Oeming & Mike Carey
• artist: Mel Rubi
• issue: #01 of 80
• release date: June, 2005
• cover: I cover with Red Foil text
• commentary: In the very first issue of the inaugural Dynamite series, there is a cover featuring a pensive Red Sonja seated upon a throne.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Adriano Batista
• writer: Brian Reed
• artist: Walter Geovani
• issue: #41 of 80
• release date: February, 2009
• cover: A cover
• commentary: Here, Red Sonja is seated upon a pedestal. As will be clear in this gallery, the thrones of Red Sonja take a variety of forms.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Walter Geovani
• writer: Eric Trautmann
• artist: Marcio Abreu
• issue: #70 of 80
• release date: October, 2012
• cover: A cover
• commentary: The impetus to place Red Sonja upon a throne presumably stems from her association with Conan, who was destined to sit upon the throne of Aquilonia. Red Sonja never had any such prophecy of monarchy in her storyline. What she does share with Conan is a discomfort with the throne, as illustrated above.

• title: Queen Sonja (2009)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Lucio Parrillo
• writer: Joshua Ortega
• artist: Mel Rubi
• issue: #01 of 35
• release date: October, 2009
• cover: A cover
• commentary: Another trait Red Sonja shared with Conan is the fact that she had to cut for herself a bloody path to claim the throne. In this first issue to the Queen Sonja series of 2009, Lucio Parrillo depicts Red Sonja already enthroned.

• title: Queen Sonja (2009)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Mel Rubi
• writer: Joshua Ortega
• artist: Mel Rubi
• issue: #01 of 35
• release date: October, 2009
• cover: B variant
• commentary: In this B variant to the first issue of Queen Sonja, she reclines upon a chaise lounge rather than a throne, but her golden armor and matching crown maker her royal status indisputable.

• title: Queen Sonja (2009)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Jackson Herbert
• writer: Arvid Nelson
• artist: Jackson Herbert
• issue: #06 of 35
• release date: April, 2010
• story: The Red Queen, part 1
• cover: C variant
• commentary: Jackson Herbert created two covers for issues #3 and #6 of Queen Sonja that are as similar as any two covers in all the Red Sonja comic books. Both depict her upon her throne garbed in a golden breastplate. We chose to include #6 rather than #3, only because we like owls. Such are the subjective whims of the selection of covers in these galleries.

• title: Savage Tales (2007)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Stjepan Sejic
• writers: Joshua Ortega, Doug Murray, Mike Raicht & Brandon Jerwa
• artists: Walter Geovani, Diego Bernard, Pere Perez & Noah Salonga
• issue: #04 of 10
• release date: October, 2007
• cover: A cover
• commentary: Stjepan Sejic presents an especially ornate and wicked throne upon which a Red Sonja of matching demeanor is seated.
  
  We have featured various covers by Stjepan Sejic in other galleries with themes including
  • Dragons: #4
  • Snow: #8
  • Throne: #8
  • Animals: #7
  • 2006: #5
  • 2007: #6
  • Dynamite Cross-overs: #4

• title: Legends of Red Sonja (2013)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Jay Anacleto
• writers: Gail Simone, Nancy A. Collins & Devin Kalile Grayson
• artists: Jack Jadson, Noah Salonga & Carla Speed McNeil
• issue: #1 of 5
• release date: November, 2013
• cover: A cover
• commentary: In this cover to the first issue of Legends of Red Sonja, Jay Anacleto places the throne amidst the treasury, adorned with various symbols of royal wealth.

• title: Swords of Sorrow (2015)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Tula Lotay
• writer: Gail Simone
• artist: Sergio Fernandez Davila
• issue: #1 of 6
• release date: May, 2015
• cover: G cover
• commentary: In one of many variants to the first issue of Swords of Sorrow cross-over, the three principal heroines, Vampirella, Dejah Thoris and Red Sonja each appear. Although Dejah Thoris who is a Princess of Mars, it is Red Sonja who is seated in a throne.