This is the twenty-sixth 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 and the recurring foe, the wizard Kulan Gath.

• title: Marvel Team-Up (1972)
• publisher: Marvel
• cover artist: John Byrne
• writer: Chris Claremont
• artist: John Byrne
• issue: #79 of 150
• release date: March, 1979
• episode: "Sword of the She-Devil"
• cover: A cover
• commentary: The 1979 introduction into the long-running Marvel Team-Up series paired Red Sonja with Spider-Man for a single issue. As a wizard, Kulan Gath, was capable of transporting individuals through time and across the boundaries separating parallel universes. In this comic, Red Sonja is channeled into the body of Spider-Man's girlfriend, Mary Jane Watson.

• title: Spider-man & Red Sonja (2007)
• publisher: Marvel & Dynamite
• cover artist: Michael Turner
• writer: Michael Avon Oeming
• artist: Mel Rubi
• issue: #1 of 5
• cover: A cover
• release date: October, 2007
• commentary: The pairing of Red Sonja and Spider-man was revisited twenty-eight years later in a five-issue expansion of essentially the same story, which was earlier presented in a single issue. Again, Red Sonja is channeled into Mary Jane Watson's body to battle Kulan Gath in modern times. Michael Turner drew the covers for all five issues.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: John Romita
• writer: Michael Avon Oeming
• artist: Mel Rubi
• issue: #12 of 80
• release date: July, 2006
• cover: C variant
• commentary: Dynamite chose to reintroduce Kulan Gath in issue #12 of the definitive 80-issue run. In this cover, Romita provides a cover that harkens back to Red Sonja's days at Marvel. There was another cover for issue #12 featuring Red Sonja and Kulan Gath, which appears in the Hapax Legomena (Masculine) gallery as it was the only Red Sonja cover created by George Pérez.
  
  We have featured covers created or co-created by John Romita in galleries with themes including
  • Horsewoman: #1
  • Skeletons: #2
  • Animals: #1
  • Kulan Gath: #3
  • 2005: #7

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Mel Rubi
• writer: Michael Avon Oeming
• artist: Mel Rubi
• issue: #18 of 80
• release date: January, 2007
• cover: C variant
• commentary: In this cover, Mel Rubi introduced to Red Sonja covers, the image of Kulan Gath as a spectral figure in the background. It is a concept that appears again in subsequent covers in this gallery.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Homs
• writer: Michael Avon Oeming
• artist: Homs
• issue: #23 of 80
• release date: June, 2007
• cover: C variant
• commentary: As Kulan Gath orchestrates the demise of Red Sonja from afar, Homs portrays the wizard again observing from the background, as if it is not enough for him to be the cause of her death, but, in his pettiness, he wishes to witness it firsthand as well.

• title: Red Sonja / Conan (2015)
• publisher: Dynamite / Dark Horse
• cover artist: Ed Benes
• writer: Victor Gischler
• artist: Roberto Castro
• issue: #3 of 4
• release date: October, 2015
• cover: A cover
• commentary: Kulan Gath originated in the Conan comics, so it is no surprise that when Dynamite and Dark Horse joined forces to reunite Conan and Red Sonja that Kulan Gath should also rear his ugly head.

• title: Red Sonja / Conan (2015)
• publisher: Dynamite / Dark Horse
• cover artist: Roberto Castro
• writer: Victor Gischler
• artist: Roberto Castro
• issue: #4 of 4
• release date: November, 2015
• cover: B variant
• commentary: In the final issue of this cross-over, Kulan Gath looks on as Conan and Red Sonja battle the monstrous pawns he has put in their path. to prevent them from reaching him.

• title: Red Sonja (2016)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Mel Rubi
• writer: Amy Chu
• artist: Carlos E. Gomez
• issue: #01 of 25
• cover: F variant
• release date: December, 2016
• commentary: In Amy Chu's adapation of Red Sonja, our heroine is transported across time and space, ending up in modern-day New York City, to face an old Nemesis. Here, Mel Rubi pays homage to the John Byrne cover of the Marvel Team-Up issue, which kicked off this gallery.

• title: Red Sonja (2016)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: John Royle
• writers: Amy Chu and Erik Burnham
• artist: Carlos E. Gomez
• issue: #20 of 25
• cover: C variant
• release date: August, 2018
• commentary: Through-out this series, Kulan Gath remains the master-mind villain. This cover by John Royle portrays Red Sonja as a minor nuisance, capable of fitting in his hand. Red Sonja is similarly seen in the clutches of Kulan Gath in Prophecy #4 and in the grasp of Thulsa Doom in Red Sonja: Atlantis Rises #4.

• title: Prophecy (2012)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Paul Renaud
• writer: Ron Marz
• artist: Walter Geovani
• issue: #7 of 7
• cover: A cover
• release date: February, 2013
• commentary: In the Prophecy series, heroes and anti-heroes are gathered from many disparate time-lines to join forces in opposing Kulan Gath. Paul Renaud portrays the wizard as both a looming threat and a sinister schemer who believes that he has manipulated all of the fools who impose him, though they know it not.