![]() ![]() Howard that mentioned a story in which one of his historical heroes fought alongside a “Russian hell-cat” or whatever precisely the phrase was (her name wasn’t mentioned in the article), so that I obtained a copy of the long out-of-print story from the estate’s literary agent, Glenn Lord, and read it: ‘The Shadow of the Vulture.’ Red Sonya of Rogatine clearly had possibilities as a sometime companion/opponent for Conan in Marvel’s Conan the Barbarian comic, so I changed her name to the (to me) slightly more exotic Red Sonja, thereby making her a somewhat new character and adapted ‘Shadow’ as an issue of Conan. It was a lucky day when I read a fan-article about Robert E. ![]() ![]() Roy Thomas, the first writer to ever script the adventures and spoken words of Red Sonja, reflects on the long legacy of the character, “It’s been very gratifying to me to witness the popularity of Red Sonja over the past four decades. Dynamite picked up the property in 2005 and have taken the character in all new directions. ![]() While Sonja first appeared in Conan the Barbarian, it wasn’t too long before the She-Devil with a Sword got her own series from Marvel that ran from 1976 to 1979. The comic publisher is bringing together an impressive lineup of writers and artists for the Red Sonja #1973 one-shot including Cullen Bunn, Dave Acosta, Rich Buckler, Toy Thomas, Gail Simone, Luke Lieberman, and Eric Trautmann. Red Sonja made her debut in the pages of Conan the Barbarian #23 in 1973, and this summer Dynamite Entertainment is celebrating the characters comic book introduction in a big way. ![]()
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