This is the twenty-second 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 amidst creatures that are some combination of animal and man.

• 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: #6 of 7
• release date: September, 1976
• episode: ""Beware the Sacred Sons of Set!"
• commentary: In fantasy literature, the combination of the human bipedal form with the characteristics of an animal is a theme that is commonly encountered. In this first Red Sonja series, our heroine is depicted battling a congregation of alligator-people.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (1977)
• publisher: Marvel
• cover artist: Frank Thorne
• writers: Roy Thomas and Wendy Pini
• artist: Frank Thorne
• issue: #6 of 15
• release date: November, 1977
• episode: "The Singing Tower"
• commentary: In the Singing Tower, Red Sonja must withstand the attack of a swarm of diminutive wasp-people.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Homs
• writer: Michael Avon Oeming
• artist: Homs
• issue: #19 of 80
• release date: February, 2007
• cover: C variant
• commentary: In this cover by Homs, Red Sonja arrives on the coast of a strange continent and must battle an aerial assault by a pride of lion-people endowed with wings.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Pablo Marcos
• writer: Brian Reed
• artist: Walter Geovani
• issue: #37 of 80
• release date: August, 2008
• cover: B variant
• commentary: In this cover by Pablo Marcos, Red Sonja battles a trio of lizard-people arriving on the back of an enormous war-turtle.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Pablo Marcos
• writer: Brian Reed
• artist: Walter Geovani
• issue: #38 of 80
• release date: September, 2008
• cover: B variant
• commentary: In the immediately following issue, Red Sonja continues to battle some variety of reptilian people, though these appear to have a more ophidian aspect to their nature.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Jackson Herbert
• writer: Brian Reed
• artist: Walter Geovani
• issue: #43 of 80
• release date: April, 2009
• cover: C variant
• commentary: There is more than one cover featuring Red Sonja faced with the menace of the quintessential combination of man and animal, the werewolf. We chose this cover by Jackson Herbert to represent the lot.

• title: Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword (2005)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Adriano Batista
• writer: Brian Reed
• artist: Walter Geovani
• issue: #46 of 80
• release date: July, 2009
• cover: C variant
• commentary: Adriano Batista presents Red Sonja holding her own against a school of fish-people (deep ones in the vocabulary of the Lovecraftian mythos).

• title: Red Sonja vs. Thulsa Doom (2006)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Gabriele Dell'Otto
• writers: Peter David & Luke Lieberman
• artist: Will Conrad
• issue: #2 of 4
• release date: February, 2006
• cover: B variant
• commentary: Snake-people are a recurring foe in the works of R.E. Howard. Originally Thulsa Doom bore a skull-head and was a foe of Kull. In the 1982 movie Conan the Barbarian, he was presented in the likeness of the villain Thoth-Amon, servant of the serpent-god Set. In subsequent works, he retained that description.

• title: Red Sonja (2013)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Stephanie Buscema
• writer: Gail Simone
• artist: Walter Geovani
• issue: #02 of 18
• release date: August, 2013
• cover: E variant
• commentary: Stephanie Buscema presents swamp-people creeping up on Red Sonja in her own idiosyncratic style.

• title: Red Sonja (2019)
• publisher: Dynamite
• cover artist: Roberto Castro
• writer: Mark Russell
• artist: Mirko Colak
• issue: #08 of ongoing series
• release date: September, 2019
• cover: K, 1:7 retailer incentive
• commentary: Roberto Castro provides an action packed scene in which Red Sonja leaps into battle against a trio of aquatic creatures, at least two of whom can be clearly identified as shark-people.