A Red Sonja Cover Gallery LIV:
2006

This is the fifty-fourth installment in our Red Sonja themed cover galleries, continuing from the first gallery. Below, we present twenty selected covers by various artists from Red Sonja comic books published in 2006.

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11

  • 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: #06 of 80
  • release date: February, 2006
  • cover: B variant
  • commentary: Mel Rubi drew several "wrap-around" covers for Red Sonja. Some other examples that have been featured previously are located in the galleries with themes of action, decapitation and 2005.

12

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Adam Hughes
  • writer: Michael Avon Oeming
  • artist: Mel Rubi
  • issue: #07 of 80
  • release date: February, 2006
  • cover: A cover
  • commentary: This cover by Adam Hughes has proven to be popular over the years because of the presentiment of violence it contains as well as the humorous expression on Red Sonja's face. Clearly, she had just issued a warning to certain other patrons of the bar to leave her be or suffer the consequences and a pair of men unwisely chose to test her patience.

    We have featured covers by Adam Hughes in galleries with various themes, including

13

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Billy Tan
  • writer: Michael Avon Oeming
  • artist: Mel Rubi
  • issue: #07 of 80
  • release date: February, 2006
  • cover: B variant
  • commentary: Billy Tan created about half a dozen covers for this series with the first appearing in issue #2 and the last in issue #13.

14

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Mel Rubi
  • writer: Michael Avon Oeming
  • artist: Mel Rubi
  • issue: #08 of 80
  • release date: March, 2006
  • cover: Dynamic Forces exclusive variant with Red Foil and COA
  • commentary: This is another example of a second Mel Rubi to an issue of Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword being released as an exclusive to Dynamic Forces with red foil lettering in the title and a certificate of authenticity.

15

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Billy Tan
  • writer: Michael Avon Oeming
  • artist: Mel Rubi
  • issue: #09 of 80
  • release date: April, 2006
  • cover: A cover
  • commentary: This is another cover from Billy Tan from early issues of Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005). One other example is featured in the Viewed from Behind gallery.

16

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Joe Benitez
  • writer: Michael Avon Oeming
  • artist: Mel Rubi and Pablo Marcos
  • issue: #10 of 80
  • release date: June, 2006
  • cover: B variant
  • commentary: To our knowledge, this is the only Red Sonja cover by Joe Benitez, famous for Lady Mechanika, outside of the steampunk genre. We have previously featured covers by Joe Benitez from issues in the Legenderry series, including #1 and #7, as well as covers from both Legenderry: Red Sonja (2015) (#1) and Legenderry: Red Sonja (2018) (#1).

17

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Jim Lee
  • writer: Michael Avon Oeming
  • artist: Mel Rubi
  • issue: #12 of 80
  • release date: July, 2006
  • cover: A cover
  • commentary: Jim Lee's first cover featuring Red Sonja was #242 of Conan the Barbarian (1970), which was published in 1991.

18

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Stephen Sadowski
  • writer: Michael Avon Oeming
  • artist: Mel Rubi
  • issue: #15 of 80
  • release date: October, 2006
  • cover: D variant
  • commentary: As far as we know, Stephen Sadowski only had two other Red Sonja covers, one to issue #16 and Annual #1.

19

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Eric Balasuda
  • writer: Michael Avon Oeming
  • artist: Mel Rubi
  • issue: #16 of 80
  • release date: November, 2006
  • cover: A cover
  • commentary: This cover was the first drawn by Eric Balasuda (EBAS). Since then he has drawn a couple retailer exclusive covers, including those featured in the Seduction and Chaos! galleries

20

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Marat Mychaels
  • writer: Michael Avon Oeming
  • artists: Mel Rubi with Steve Sadowski
  • issue: #17 of 80
  • release date: December, 2006
  • cover: C variant
  • commentary: This was the first Red Sonja cover drawn by Marat Mychaels. We have featured covers by Marat Mychaels in galleries with themes including
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    • Vampirella & Red Sonja: #5
    • Red Sonja (2021): #45
    • Die!namite Never Dies!: #9
    • 2022: #12
    • Immortal: #6
    • 2023: #5

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