This is the seventeenth installment in our Red Sonja themed cover galleries, continuing from the first gallery. Below, we present ten selected covers from various comic books, which feature Red Sonja bound by chains, ropes, stocks, vines and webs.

• title: Marvel Feature presents Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (1975)
• publisher: Marvel
• cover artist: Frank Thorne
• writer: Bruce Jones
• artist: Frank Thorne
• issue: #3 of 7
• release date: March, 1976
• episode: "Balek Lives!"
• commentary: On the cover of the third issue of the first series that featured Red Sonja as the main character, Red Sonja finds herself chained to a rock. Her jailers appear to have made two miscalculations. First, they left Red Sonja armed. Second, there is sufficient slack in the chains to allow Red Sonja to ably defend herself. It is unlikely that this is a lesson, which the jailers will be able to learn from in the future.

• title: Conan the Barbarian (1970)
• publisher: Marvel
• cover artist: Arthur Adams
• writer: Roy Thomas
• artist: Mike Docherty
• issue: #248 of 275
• release date: September, 1991
• episode: "The Peril and the Prophecy"
• commentary: When Red Sonja appears in Conan the Barbarian or the The Savage Sword of Conan she often has to play second fiddle to the protagonist. This cover portrays her as a manacled damsel in distress, rather than the formidable warrior, equal in arms to Conan, that she is.
  
  We have featured various covers by Arthur Adams in other galleries with themes including
  • In Bondage: #2
  • Dinosaurs: #3
  • Demons: #3 & #11
  • 2005: #3
  • 2007: #15
  • Overlooked Marvel Issues: #10
  • 2021: #1
  • Red Sonja (2023) First Issue: #15
  • Savage Red Sonja: #1

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Lee Moder
• writer: Michael Avon Oeming
• artist: Mel Rubi
• issue: #18 of 80
• release date: January, 2007
• cover: D variant
• commentary: In this cover, Red Sonja appears bound, bloodied and unconscious. Hauled up by her hair with a knife about to deliver the killing blow, her fate seems sealed. To our knowledge, this is the only Red Sonja cover drawn by Lee Moder to be published.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Adriano Batista
• writer: Luke Lieberman
• artist: Homs
• issue: #33 of 80
• release date: May, 2008
• cover: C variant
• commentary: Tied to a tree, Red Sonja has been left to meet a grisly end administered by a host of arachnids, some ordinary in size and nature and one clearly of supernatural origin.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Fabiano Neves
• writer: Brian Reed
• artist: Walter Geovani
• issue: #43 of 80
• release date: April, 2009
• cover: A cover
• commentary: In this cover, Fabiano Neves portrays Red Sonja tied to a pole, in what is clearly an execution ground. Neves also has a cover in issue #68 in which Red Sonja is confined with a stock around her neck and wrists.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Walter Geovani
• writer: Eric Trautmann
• artist: Walter Geovani
• issue: #64 of 80
• release date: February, 2012
• cover: A cover
• commentary: Walter Geovani has portrayed Red Sonja bound in several covers. Here, she is chained to an alter as sacrifice in an arcane ritual. The third issue of Red Sonja Unchained also includes a Geovani cover with Red Sonja in chains.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Walter Geovani
• writer: Eric Trautmann
• artist: Marcio Abreu
• issue: #73 of 80
• release date: February, 2013
• cover: A cover
• commentary: In another cover by Walter Geovani, we find the two hapless victims in the background in chains. Red Sonja is restrained in a more gruesome manner with barbed wire wrapped around her forearms and thighs. This is an anachronism since the invention of barbed wire dates to the 1860's and 1870's. Certainly, barbed wire is not a recurring motif in the Red Sonja comics.

• title: Sword of Red Sonja: Doom of the Gods (2007)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Aaron Lopresti
• writer: Luke Lieberman
• artist: Lui Antonio
• issue: #4 of 4
• release date: December, 2007
• cover: B variant
• commentary: In this variant cover to the last issue of Sword of Red Sonja: Doom of the Gods, Aaron Lopresti portrays our heroine chained to a dungeon wall. She appears to be in imminent danger of torture, as a henchman of some goblinoid persuasion has heated iron rods in a fire and is approaching her in a decidedly unfriendly manner. Rather than adopting a stance of resolute defiance, Lopresti depicts Red Sonja with an expression of fear and an uncharacteristic pose of helplessness.

• title: Savage Red Sonja: Queen of the Frozen Wastes (2006)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Frank Cho
• writers: Frank Cho & Doug Murray
• artist: Homs
• issue: #2 of 4
• release date: September, 2006
• cover: A cover
• commentary: On the cover of the second issue of Savage Red Sonja: Queen of the Frozen Wastes, Frank Cho has drawn Red Sonja bloodied and bound not only by a stock but by chains as well. Despite her dire circumstances, there is no terror in her expression. We expect that she shall find a way to free herself and deliver a brutal judgment upon those foolish enough to have imagined that they could restrain her.

• title: Queen Sonja (2009)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Lucio Parrillo
• writer: Luke Lieberman
• artist: Fritz Casas
• issue: #21 of 35
• release date: October, 2011
• cover: A cover
• commentary: In this cover by Lucio Parrillo to Queen Sonja #21, she has fallen victim to the ensnarement of vines and roots arising from a jungle surrounding the ancient ruins of some remote temple. Whatever malevolent intelligence these plants possess, they appear to be dragging her head first into an earthly grave.