A Red Sonja Cover Gallery LV:
2007

This is the fifty-fifth installment in our Red Sonja themed cover galleries, continuing from the first gallery. Below, we present twenty selected covers by twenty different artists from Red Sonja comic books published in 2007.

1

  • title: Giant-Size Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2007)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Howard Chaykin
  • writers: Michael Avon Oeming, Howard Chaykin, Roy Thomas & Frank Thorne
  • artists: Ron Adrian, John Buscema & Wendy Pini
  • issue: #1 of 2
  • release date: May, 2007
  • cover: B variant
  • commentary: Howard Chaykin illustrated issues of Kull and the Barbarians (1975), which included Red Sonja. We have featured one cover from this series in a previous gallery. The cover shown above appeared on the first issue of two entries in the Red Sonja Giant-Size title. These issues were anthologies containing short stories by several writers.

2

  • title: Red Sonja: Vacant Shell (2007)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Michael William Kaluta
  • writer: Rick Remender
  • artist: Paul Renaud
  • issue: one-shot
  • release date: May, 2007
  • cover: B variant
  • commentary: This cover to the one-shot Vacant Shell presents Red Sonja in a rather girlish light. We have previously featured covers by Michael William Kaluta in galleries with themes of archery and 2005.

    We have featured covers from Red Sonja: Vacant Shell in galleries with themes including
    • Renaud: #9
    • Sketches: #5
    • 2007: #2

3

  • title: Spider-man & Red Sonja (2007)
  • publisher: Marvel & Dynamite
  • cover artist: Michael Turner
  • writer: Michael Avon Oeming
  • artist: Mel Rubi
  • issue: #1 of 5
  • release date: October, 2007
  • cover: Dynamic Forces exclusive variant with COA
  • commentary: Both Marvel and Dynamite had Red Sonja meet the Spider-man. Michael Turner drew all the covers to the second meeting, including regular covers for all five issues and exclusives to the first two, including the one shown above. Other covers from this series have been previously featured in galleries with themes of companions, bondage, Kulan Gath, and seduction.

4

  • title: Sword of Red Sonja: Doom of the Gods (2007)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Aaron Lopresti
  • writer: Luke Lieberman
  • artist: Lui Antonio
  • issue: #2 of 4
  • release date: October, 2007
  • cover: B variant
  • commentary: Sword of Red Sonja: Doom of the Gods (2007) was a four issue series. Aaron Lopresti drew the B variants for all four issues, including #1, #3, and #4.

5

  • title: Sword of Red Sonja: Doom of the Gods (2007)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Paul Renaud
  • writer: Luke Lieberman
  • artist: Lui Antonio
  • issue: #3 of 4
  • release date: December, 2007
  • cover: A cover
  • commentary: Paul Renaud drew the A covers with a distinctly red theme for all four issues of Sword of Red Sonja: Doom of the Gods (2007), including #1, #2, and #4.

6

  • title: Savage Tales (2007)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Stjepan Sejic
  • writers: Christos Gage, Leah Moore, Luke Lieberman, Michael Avon Oeming & Mike Raict
  • artists: Joyce Chin, Pablo Marcos, Faviano Neves & Pere Perez
  • issue: #2 of 10
  • release date: June, 2007
  • cover: B variant
  • commentary: Savage Tales (2007) ran ten issues, with each issue containing three or four stories, some of which were spread over several issues. Stjepan Sejic drew covers for four issues, including the amazing #4.

7

  • title: Savage Tales (2007)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Richard Isanove
  • writers: Ron Marz, Leah Moore, John Reppion, Luke Lieberman, Michael Avon Oeming & Mike Raict
  • artists: Adriano Batista, Pablo Marcos, Stjepan Sejic, Kevin Sharpe & Pere Perez
  • issue: #3 of 10
  • release date: August, 2007
  • cover: B variant
  • commentary: Richard Isanove drew covers for three issues of Savage Tales (2007), including the one shown above and issue #1.

8

  • title: Savage Tales (2007)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Arthur Suydam
  • writers: Joshua Ortega, Doug Murray, Mike Raicht & Luke Lieberman
  • artists: Walter Geovani, Diego Bernard, Pere Perez & Noah Salonga
  • issue: #5 of 10
  • release date: December, 2007
  • cover: A cover
  • commentary: Arthur Suydam drew covers for five issues of Savage Tales (2007), including issues #1, #2 and #8. The cover shown above is the only one that is wrap-around.

9

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Sean Chen
  • writer: Michael Avon Oeming
  • artist: Homs
  • issue: #19 of 80
  • release date: February, 2007
  • cover: A cover
  • commentary: In the year 2007, issues 18 through 28 of Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword were published. The remainder of the entries in this gallery are taken from this series. Our first entry is by Sean Chen, who also drew a cover to issue #21 as well as an amazing exclusive to the first issue of Red Sonja / Conan (2015). Interestingly, this cover depicts a Red Sonja of distinctly Asian ancestry.

10

  • title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Frank Brunner
  • writer: Michael Avon Oeming
  • artist: Homs
  • issue: #19 of 80
  • release date: February, 2007
  • cover: Dynamite Gold Foil with COA
  • commentary: Frank Brunner drew variants of three issues of Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005) with the title printed in foil. In addition to issue #19 shown above there is also issues #20 and #21. Other Brunner covers in this series, such as #2 were not foil covers.

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