Character/Dynamite Entertainment

Red Sonja

Hyborean Age

3,456 appearancesSince 1973

Red Sonja first appeared in Conan the Barbarian #23 (1973-02), published by Dynamite Entertainment. 3,456 appearances are indexed across 60 series.

Red Sonja is a fictional sword and sorcery comic book superheroine created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Barry Windsor-Smith for Marvel Comics in 1973, partially based on Robert E. Howard's characters Red Sonya of Rogatino, Dark Agnes de Chastillon and especially Valeria. Marvel Comics published stories featuring Red Sonja until 1986, and returned to the character for a one-shot story in 1995. In 2005, Dynamite Entertainment began publishing stories of the heroine, during which the original Sonja was killed and replaced by a "reincarnation". Red Sonja has appeared in numerous titles, both as a solo protagonist and together with Conan, as well as in crossovers with characters from Marvel Comics and Dynamite Comics. Sonja's signature clothing is her bikini armor, consisting typically of scale mail. In 2016, author Gail Simone indicated that Sonja was bisexual in her run. In 2020, the series Red Sonja: The Price of Blood by writer Luke Lieberman and artist Walter Geovani corroborated this, depicting Sonja as having slept with a woman.

Character history

Key issues

3 issues

Conan the Barbarian#23Cape Archive1973
Conan the Barbarian
#23
first appearance · intro
1973-02-00

Across the catalog

Appears in

60 series