A Red Sonja Cover Gallery LIII:
2005

This is the fifty-third installment in our Red Sonja themed cover galleries, continuing from the first gallery. Below, we present ten selected covers created by ten different artists from various comic books, featuring Red Sonja, which were published in the year 2005.

1

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Greg Land
  • writers: Michael Avon Oeming & Mike Carey
  • artists: Mel Rubi, Ceasar Rodriguez, & Richard Isanove
  • issue: #0 of 80
  • release date: April, 2005
  • cover: A cover
  • commentary: After fifty-two previous themed galleries, we have featured a great many Red Sonja covers. In this gallery, we showcase covers from Red Sonja books published in 2005, the first year of the Dynamite license for Red Sonja, which have not yet been high-lighted on this site. To our knowledge the only Red Sonja books that appeared in 2005 were issues #0 through #3 of Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword and the one-shot One More Day. In this gallery, we elected to include only one book from any individual artist. To our knowledge, this cover (and its variant with a black background) to issue #0 is the only Red Sonja cover drawn by Greg Land.

2

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Alex Ross
  • writers: Michael Avon Oeming & Mike Carey
  • artists: Mel Rubi, Ceasar Rodriguez, & Richard Isanove
  • issue: #1 of 80
  • release date: June, 2005
  • cover: E variant
  • commentary: There were a number of variants to the first issue of Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005), though small by comparison with today's explosion of variants for debut issues of new series, especially for books published by Dynamite. Alex Ross has drawn covers for several Red Sonja issues, including one to issue 30 of this same series.

3

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Arthur Adams
  • writers: Michael Avon Oeming & Mike Carey
  • artists: Mel Rubi, Ceasar Rodriguez, & Richard Isanove
  • issue: #1 of 80
  • release date: June, 2005
  • cover: F variant
  • commentary: To tie the new Red Sonja series with Dynamite to the earlier Red Sonja adventures at Marvel, artists who had worked on books with Red Sonja were also commissioned to draw covers for selected issues of Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005). Arthur (Art) Adams worked on Conan the Barbarian (1970), including covers for issues (#247, #248 & #249), which featured Red Sonja. Adams also created covers for later Red Sonja books, including issue #50 of this series.

4

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Frank Brunner
  • writers: Michael Avon Oeming & Mike Carey
  • artists: Mel Rubi, Ceasar Rodriguez, & Richard Isanove
  • issue: #2 of 80
  • release date: July, 2005
  • cover: D variant
  • commentary: Dynamite engaged the services of Frank Brunner for a variant cover to the second issue of Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005). Brunner had also drawn covers for several issues of the first Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword series from Marvel, which began in 1977. He drew other Red Sonja covers including #20 of this series.

5

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Billy Tan
  • writers: Michael Avon Oeming & Mike Carey
  • artists: Mel Rubi, Ceasar Rodriguez, & Richard Isanove
  • issue: #2 of 80
  • release date: July, 2005
  • cover: E variant
  • commentary: Billy Tan has drawn covers for several Red Sonja books, including #6 of this series.

6

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Esteban Maroto
  • writers: Michael Avon Oeming & Mike Carey
  • artists: Mel Rubi, Ceasar Rodriguez, & Richard Isanove
  • issue: #2 of 80
  • release date: July, 2005
  • cover: 1:65 F variant
  • commentary: Esteban Maroto drew interiors for Savage Sword of Conan (1974) among many other books. To our knowledge, he has drawn covers for only two Red Sonja books, including #25 of this series.

7

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: John Romita
  • writers: Michael Avon Oeming & Mike Carey
  • artists: Mel Rubi, Ceasar Rodriguez, & Richard Isanove
  • issue: #3 of 80
  • release date: November, 2005
  • cover: B variant
  • commentary: John Romita Sr. began illustrating comics in the 1950s. He has second cover credits on various Red Sonja books including issues #1, #2 and #5 of the very first Red Sonja series, Marvel Features presents...Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (1975). He is not to be confused with his son, John Romita Jr., who is also a comic book artist. Father and son teamed up for the cover to issue #12 of this series.

8

9

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Mel Rubi
  • writers: Michael Avon Oeming & Mike Carey
  • artists: Mel Rubi, Ceasar Rodriguez, & Richard Isanove
  • issue: #3 of 80
  • release date: November, 2005
  • cover: D variant
  • commentary: At the time of this writing, Mel Rubi has more Red Sonja covers to his name than any other artist. His covers are scattered through-out the galleries on this site, including one gallery devoted just to his work.

10

  • 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: B cover
  • commentary: Liam Sharp was the interior artist for the one-shot, One More Day and also drew both covers.

    We have featured covers from Red Sonja: One More Day in galleries with various themes, including
    • Horsewoman: #4
    • 2005: #10
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