This is the twenty-ninth installment in our Red Sonja themed cover galleries, continuing from the first gallery. Below, we present twenty selected covers from various comic books, featuring Red Sonja and demons.

• title: Marvel Comics Super Special (1977)
• publisher: Marvel
• cover artist: John Buscema
• writer: Roy Thomas
• artists: John Buscema, Tony DeZuniga & Howard Chaykin
• issue: #09 of 41
• release date: February, 1979
• episode: "Day of the Red Judgment"
• format: magazine
• commentary: In this series of Red Sonja cover galleries, we have featured numerous categories of creatures, with which our heroine has been confronted, including dragons, snakes and other animals, beasts with tentacles, animated skeletons and other undead, dinosaurs, animal people and mythological beasts. Among these categories, there are examples of monsters endowed with some demonic attributes. Indeed the process of identifying a creature as a demon is not free of ambiguity when the supporting evidence is purely a visual representation. The origin of the entity is also an important piece of information. Nevertheless, in this gallery, we present twenty covers not included in any previous gallery, which depict Red Sonja battling creatures with what many would likely regard as possessing significant demonic characteristics.
  
  In this 1979 cover by John Buscema, Conan and Red Sonja stand atop an isolated hillock in a hellish, fiery wasteland holding off a horde of demons intent on their destruction.

• title: Conan the Barbarian (1970)
• publisher: Marvel
• cover artist: Steve Lightle
• writer: Roy Thomas
• artist: Gary Hartle
• issue: #246 of 275
• release date: July, 1991
• episode: "Chaos in Khoraja"
• commentary: Some demons take on the appearance of a particular kind of animal occurring in the natural world, then distort the form through changes subtle or gross. In this cover to issue #246 from Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja and Conan face an ape-demon with the following telltale demonic traits: red eyes, over-sized fangs and claws and an unnatural appetite for violence.

• title: Conan the Barbarian (1970)
• publisher: Marvel
• cover artist: Arthur Adams
• writer: Roy Thomas
• artist: Gary Hartle
• issue: #247 of 275
• release date: August, 1991
• episode: "The Sword That Conquers All!"
• commentary: Demons are often bound to the service of a sorcerer willing to traffic with evil supernatural beings. In this cover, Red Sonja and Zula are restrained by an enormous demon with the face of a horned-toad, summoned to do the bidding of the red-cloaked wizard. Another minion, bearing a cursed sword, appears to have a momentary advantage over Conan.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (1977)
• publisher: Marvel
• cover artist: Frank Thorne
• writers: Roy Thomas and Clara Noto
• artist: Frank Thorne
• issue: #2 of 15
• release date: March, 1977
• episode: "The Demon of the Maze"
• commentary: Some demons do not adopt natural forms but rather take on unwholesome shapes that are an amalgamation of anatomical components of men, animals and beasts of the imagination. From the angle presented here, this demon possesses the bidepal stance of a human, the warty skin of a frog, the tail of dragon, the head crest of a dinosaur, the massive clawed hands of an ogre and the elongated ears of a bush pig. It its face were visible, who knows what other features it would display.
  
  All fifteen issues of Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (1977) have been featured in galleries on this site, including those with themes of
  • Serpents: #1
  • Animals: #2
  • Dinosaurs: #1
  • Animal People: #2
  • Hapax Legomena (Masculine): #1
  • Demons: #4, #5, #6 & #7
  • Thorne: #2, #3
  • Overlooked Marvel Issues: #1, #2, #3 & #4

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (1977)
• publisher: Marvel
• cover artist: Frank Thorne
• writers: Roy Thomas and Clara Noto
• artist: Frank Thorne
• issue: #4 of 15
• release date: July, 1977
• episode: "The Lake of the Unknown"
• commentary: Even when present in great numbers, demons may find allies with animals, such as serpents or bats, which have been nudged by dark magic to ferocity. Of course, evil men often need no magical inducement to join forces with legions of demons but are driven exclusively by the short-comings of their nature.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (1977)
• publisher: Marvel
• cover artist: Frank Thorne
• writers: Roy Thomas and Clara Noto
• artist: Frank Thorne
• issue: #9 of 15
• release date: May, 1978
• episode: "Chariot of the Fire-Stallions!"
• commentary: While many demons are possessed of a brute strength as well as natural weapons in the form of teeth and claws, some choose to wield the weapons of man. Here, in this cover by Frank Thorne from 1978, Red Sonja is attacked by a green monstrosity bearing a wicked dagger in one of its numerous muscle-bound arms.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (1977)
• publisher: Marvel
• cover artist: Frank Thorne
• writers: Roy Thomas and Clara Noto
• artist: Frank Thorne
• issue: #10 of 15
• release date: July, 1978
• episode: "Red Lace" (part 1)
• commentary: In the Dungeons and Dragons role playing game, a definitive distinction is drawn between demons and devils. The former hail from the Abyss while the latter dwell in Hell. More significantly, demons adhere to a chaotic evil alignment while devils are lawful evil. In other words, demons thrive on wild destruction and unrestrained havoc whereas devils prefer to draw up contracts, luring hapless mortals to their doom with their own intrinsic greed, sloth, lust and other vices. In this gallery, this technical distinction between demons and devils is not rigorously applied.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (1983)
• publisher: Marvel
• cover artists: Mary Wilshire & Bill Sienkiewicz
• writers: Louise Simonson & Mary Wilshire
• artists: Mary Wilshire, Marie Severin & Geof Isherwood
• issue: #08 of 13
• release date: April, 1985
• episode: "The Queen of Ice and Blood"
• commentary: An important consequence of the chaotic vs. lawful brands of evil adopted by demons and devils respectively is the role of the mortal in their own destruction. Both seek to destroy men and women, but demons do so without special regard for the misery of those whom they destroy. The simple act of annihilation is sufficient motivation for the demon. Devils, on the other, manipulate their victims to extract the maximum amount of suffering. The evil of devils delights in the suffering of their victims. Hell is therefore organized as an eternal agony, while demons are content to snuff out a life in an instant.
  
  In this cover from 1985 by Mary Wilshire, the looming demon with canine and bovine features appears to harbor no desire to inflict protracted pain on Red Sonja. Rather, it seems intent on Red Sonja's immediate extermination.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Adriano Batista
• writer: Michael Avon Oeming
• artist: Homs
• issue: #20 of 80
• release date: March, 2007
• cover: D variant
• commentary: Demons are also present in the Red Sonja comics published by Dynamite. This cover by Adriano Batista features a demon that shares numerous physical features with the aliens of the Predator film franchise.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Adriano Batista
• writer: Brian Reed
• artist: Walter Geovani
• issue: #47 of 80
• release date: August, 2009
• cover: C variant
• commentary: Adriano Batista had covers to consecutive issues with demons in issues #47 and #48. Both are compelling but, for the purposes of broad representation of various artists and subject matter, we include only the first in this gallery. So malformed is the demon physiology that it is unclear in this cover if these heads-on-snakes are independent entities or appendages of a larger hydra-like structure connected to the central eye stalk. In either case, Red Sonja has her hands full.