A Red Sonja Cover Gallery XLIX:
Lee

This is the forty-ninth installment in our Red Sonja themed cover galleries, continuing from the first gallery. Below, we present ten selected covers from various comic books, featuring Red Sonja as envisioned by artist Jae Lee.

1

  • title: Swords of Sorrow (2015)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Jae Lee
  • writer: Gail Simone
  • artist: Sergio Fernandez Davila
  • issue: #1 of 6
  • release date: May, 2015
  • cover: BAM! retailer exclusive variant
  • commentary: Jae Lee has drawn covers for Red Sonja in various series including Red Sonja (2019) and Vampirella & Red Sonja (2019).

    Surprisingly, our previous galleries of Red Sonja covers have not featured any covers from the artist Jae Lee, although we have included covers by Jim Lee, Inhyuk Lee, Alvin Lee, Jee Hyung Lee & Pat Lee. Subsequent galleries of Red Sonja covers have featured contributions from the artist Jae Lee, including

2

  • title: Red Sonja & Tarzan (2018)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Jae Lee
  • writer: Gail Simone
  • artist: Walter Geovani
  • issue: #1 of 6
  • release date: May, 2018
  • cover: B variant
  • commentary: Jae Lee's signature depiction of figures, when applied to Red Sonja and Tarzan draws forth a chuckle. They appear to be at most half-heartedly interested in a rather languid combat.

3

  • title: Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Jae Lee
  • writer: Mark Russell
  • artist: Mirko Colak
  • issue: #13 of 28
  • release date: February, 2020
  • cover: A cover
  • commentary: After Amanda Conner put forward excellent A covers to the first twelve issues of Red Sonja (2019), Jae Lee was asked to follow with A covers to the issues #13 and following. This is the first cover by Lee published for the series. By the design, it was clearly meant to link with the Jae Lee cover to the first issue of Sacred Six (2020), which so far as we know does not include Red Sonja (at least the first issue did not).

4

  • title: Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Jae Lee
  • writer: Mark Russell
  • artist: Mirko Colak
  • issue: #14 of 28
  • release date: March, 2020
  • cover: A cover
  • commentary: In Red Sonja (2019), once Red Sonja has defended Hyrkania from the invading army of Emperor Dragan, she finds her people at the brink of famine. She enters the service of the court of Khitai in the far East in exchange for food for her people.

5

  • title: Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Jae Lee
  • writer: Mark Russell
  • artist: Mirko Colak
  • issue: #15 of 28
  • release date: May, 2020
  • cover: A cover
  • commentary: While a minister in Khitai, Red Sonja has ceded day-to-day administration of Hyrkania to a steward. Here, Jae Lee recalls that Red Sonja remains the monarch, however reluctant, of Hyrkania.

6

  • title: Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Jae Lee
  • writer: Mark Russell
  • artist: Mirko Colak
  • issue: #16 of 28
  • release date: July, 2020
  • cover: A cover
  • commentary: Here Red Sonja is ambushed by some manner of undead creature.

7

  • title: Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Jae Lee
  • writer: Mark Russell
  • artist: Mirko Colak
  • issue: #17 of 28
  • release date: July, 2020
  • cover: A cover
  • commentary: Jae Lee captures Red Sonja sword swinging plunging through the collapsing ruins of temple, all her attention focused not on the stone falling about her but rather on the prey seeking to flee from her fury.

8

  • title: Vampirella & Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Jae Lee
  • writer: Jordie Bellaire
  • artist: Drew Moss
  • issue: #7 of 12
  • release date: March, 2020
  • cover: A cover
  • commentary: A month after the first Jae Lee cover to Red Sonja (2019) appeared, it became clear that he also was drawing the A covers for Vampirella & Red Sonja (2019) beginning with issue #7.

9

  • title: Vampirella & Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Jae Lee
  • writer: Jordie Bellaire
  • artist: Drew Moss
  • issue: #8 of 12
  • release date: June, 2020
  • cover: A cover
  • commentary: The fluid lines of Jae Lee imbue Red Sonja's locks of wild hair with almost the same energy as the lightning bolt behind it.

10

  • title: Vampirella & Red Sonja (2019)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Jae Lee
  • writer: Jordie Bellaire
  • artist: Drew Moss
  • issue: #9 of 12
  • release date: July, 2020
  • cover: A cover
  • commentary: Believe it or not, this is not the first time that Red Sonja has been turned into a vampire! She was changed in the Prophecy series and then returned to mortality in the last arc of Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005).

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