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The heart of The Women of Dynamite is formed by the three bestselling heroines (or female triumvirate) of Dynamite's line as the central characters: Red Sonja, Vampirella, and Dejah Thoris.

The "She-Devil with a Sword" known as Red Sonja , is fantasy fiction's most prominent female character, formerly a swashbuckling ally of the Robert E. Howard character, Conan.

Vampirella , originally a horror hostess in her self-titled magazine, evolved over her forty-five year history into a supernatural detective.

Dejah Thoris is the eponymous heroine of Edgar Rice Burroughs' original story featuring John Carter, A Princess of Mars, and an adventurous mainstay at Dynamite with the publication of such series as Warlord of Mars and Dejah of Mars.

Red Sonja is a fictional sword-and-sorcery comic-book heroine 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 and Dark Agnes de Chastillon.

From 2005, the series was published by Dynamite Entertainment. In issue #34, the original Sonja was killed and replaced by a "reincarnation". The series was rebooted by writer Gail Simone in 2013, telling an altered version of Red Sonja's early life story via flashbacks. In 2017, Amy Chu began writing the series.

Red Sonja has appeared in numerous editions both solo and together with Conan, as well as in some Marvel comics crossovers. A novelization was published in the 1980s written by David C. Smith and Richard L. Tierney, and in 1985, a feature film starring Brigitte Nielsen in the title role, Red Sonja , was released. There have also been television and animated adaptions.

Sonja is well known for her bikini armor, consisting typically of scale mail covering only her waist and breasts.

History

Marvel Comics (1973–1986)

Red Sonja was created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Barry Windsor-Smith for Marvel Comics in 1973, partially based on Robert E. Howard's character Red Sonya of Rogatino, a female swashbuckler from his 1934 short story "The Shadow of the Vulture", and to a certain degree also based on Howard's character Dark Agnes de Chastillon.

Red Sonja debuted in Conan the Barbarian #23 (1973). Thomas created a new origin story and transposed the timeline from the 16th century of Howard's original Red Sonya to the Hyborian Age, another Howard creation, in order to have the comic-book Red Sonja interact with Conan the Barbarian. In 1975, Marvel Comics published the first issue of Red Sonja after the character headlined Marvel Feature for seven issues that same year. Red Sonja's origin story was told in the story "The Day of the Sword", in Kull and the Barbarians #3 (1975), written by Roy Thomas and Doug Moench and illustrated by Howard Chaykin. The same story was later redrawn by Dick Giordano and Terry Austin in The Savage Sword of Conan #78 (July 1982).

In this version, Red Sonja lives with her family in a humble house in the Western Hyrkanian steppes. When she is 17, a group of mercenaries kills her family and burns down their house. Sonja attempts to defend herself, but cannot lift her brother's sword. She is raped by the leader of the group. Answering her cry for revenge, the red goddess Scáthach appears to her and gives her incredible fighting skills, on the condition that she never lie with a man unless he defeats her in fair combat.

Dynamite Comics (2005–2013)

Dynamite Comics began publishing the series in 2005. The original Sonja dies in issue #34 of the first Dynamite series. A new character of the same name, described as a reincarnation, takes her place from issue #35 onward.

In her new life, Sonja is described as a distant relative of the original Red Sonja, taking her name as a good omen, since Sonja had come to be known as the most beautiful and fearless woman in Hyrkania. A noblewoman, this incarnation lives a fairly sheltered existence, along with her sister Verona and her little niece, longing for a child of her own and waiting for the return of her far-off husband, Lord Daniel.

Eventually she is reunited with her husband, but then a pirate crew (unbeknownst to them called upon by Verona's husband, Lord Lucan, in a bid for more power) slays him and leaves Sonja on the brink of death. Sonja is then nursed to health by Osin, in Sonja's previous life a bard companion and now a gruff swordsman, who accepted the curse of Claw the Unconquered for himself in exchange for the ability to locate and train the new incarnation of Red Sonja.

Osin begins her training. He and Sonja find that, even though she has occasional flashes of her former reflexes, she no longer has access to the full might of the skills bestowed by Scathach (now an almost forgotten goddess with waning powers) in her previous life. Despite this, Sonja is able to learn faster than Osin expects. She decides to seek revenge covertly, joining Lucan's pirate crew to be closer to Daniel's assassins.

Gail Simone reboot (2013–2017)

At the 2013 Emerald City Comic Con, Dynamite Entertainment, which began publishing Red Sonja comics in 2005, announced that Gail Simone would be writing a new ongoing Red Sonja series. Simone noted in further interviews that her version is slightly "rebooted," showing the character's beginnings. Issue #1 of Simone's run was released in July 2013 to positive reviews. The series ran through 18 issues.

In Gail Simone's series , Sonja's origins are retold in flashbacks. Sonja is a young teenager in a Hyrkanian village which is attacked by bandits. After her family is killed, Sonja lures the bandits into the forest and kills them one by one. No goddess appears in this version and Sonja makes no vow of chastity. While she is threatened by the bandits, she is neither raped nor seriously injured. Another set of flashbacks shows Sonja as an adult, and indicates that she learned many of her fighting skills from a fellow prisoner when she was captured and forced to fight as a gladiator.

Amy Chu (2017–present)

In 2017, a new Red Sonja comic series began, written by Amy Chu.

Bikini armour

Most artists depict Red Sonja wearing a very brief "chainmail bikini" costume of scale armor, usually with boots and gauntlets. As originally drawn by Barry Smith for "The Shadow of the Vulture" and "The Song of Red Sonja" in Conan the Barbarian issues 23 and 24 (1973), she did not have as full a figure and dressed a little more conservatively, in a long-sleeved mail shirt and short pants of red silk, a style that did not last long.

As told by Roy Thomas in the introduction of Red Sonja Adventures Volume 1 (Dynamite Entertainment) Spanish artist Esteban Maroto submitted an uncommissioned illustration to him when he was editing the magazine Savage Sword of Conan where he redesigned the character and for the first time showed her wearing what would become her famous costume, the silver "metal bikini", which resembled other fantasy costumes that other Maroto heroines sported in the 1970s. This illustration had been printed for the first time in Jim Steranko's magazine Comixscene #5 in black and white. It was reprinted in Savage Sword of Conan #1, and in Marvel Treasury Edition #15 colored but poorly reproduced, and finally restored and colored by José Villarrubia as an alternative cover for the Dynamite Entertainment edition of Red Sonja #2. Maroto drew her in this costume for a double page spread illustration in Savage Tales #3 and then for her first solo adventure in Savage Sword of Conan #1, and John Buscema drew her in this costume in the same magazine. Buscema drew her again in this costume in issues 43, 44 and 48 of Conan the Barbarian (1974) and Dick Giordano in the first issue of Marvel Feature vol. 2 (Nov. 1975) before Frank Thorne took over from issue #2 (Jan. 1976). The "bikini" proved popular, becoming well known through the paintings of Boris Vallejo and others.

Comics bibliography

As a main character
  • Marvel Feature (Vol. 2) 1–7 (Marvel Comics) (November, 1975 – November, 1976)

  • Red Sonja (Vol. 1) 1–15 (Marvel Comics) (January, 1977 – May, 1979)

  • Red Sonja (Vol. 2) 1–2 (Marvel Comics) (February, 1983 – March, 1983)

  • Red Sonja (Vol. 3) 1–13 (Marvel Comics) (August, 1983 – May, 1986)

  • Red Sonja: The Movie 1–2 (Marvel Comics) (November – December, 1985)

  • Red Sonja: Scavenger Hunt (Marvel Comics) (December, 1995)

  • Red Sonja in 3-D (Blackthorne) (1998)

  • Red Sonja: A Death in Scarlet (Cross Plains) (1999)

  • Red Sonja (Vol. 1) 0–80 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2005–2013)

  • Red Sonja Vs. Thulsa Doom 1–4 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2005)

  • Red Sonja Annual 1–4, (Dynamite Entertainment) (2006–2013)

  • Red Sonja & Claw 1–4 (Wildstorm/Dynamite Entertainment) (2006)

  • Red Sonja: One More Day (Dynamite Entertainment) (2006)

  • Red Sonja: Goes East (Dynamite Entertainment) (2006)

  • Red Sonja: Monster Isle (Dynamite Entertainment) (2006)

  • Savage Red Sonja: Queen of the Frozen Wastes 1–4 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2006)

  • Red Sonja: Vacant Shell (Dynamite Entertainment) (2007)

  • Savage Tales (Vol. 3) 1–10 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2007–2008)

  • Giant Size Red Sonja 1–2 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2007–2008)

  • Sword of Red Sonja: Doom of the Gods 1–4 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2007–2008)

  • Spider-Man & Red Sonja 1–5 (Marvel Comics/Dynamite Entertainment) (2007–2008)

  • Queen Sonja 1–35 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2009–2013)

  • Classic Red Sonja Remastered 1–4 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2010)

  • Red Sonja: Wrath of the Gods 1–5 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2010)

  • Red Sonja: Revenge of the Gods 1–5 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2011)

  • Red Sonja: Deluge (Dynamite Entertainment) (2011)

  • Red Sonja: Break The Skin (Dynamite Entertainment) (2011)

  • Red Sonja: Blue (Dynamite Entertainment) (2011)

  • Red Sonja: Raven (Dynamite Entertainment) (2012)

  • Witchblade/Red Sonja 1–5 (Top Cow Productions/Dynamite Entertainment) (2012)

  • Prophecy 1–7 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2012–2013)

  • Red Sonja: Atlantis Rises 1–4 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2012–2013)

  • Red Sonja: Unchained 1–4 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2013)

  • Red Sonja (Vol. 2) 0–18 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2013–2015)

  • Legends of Red Sonja 1–5 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2013–2014)

  • Legenderry: A Steampunk Adventure 1-7 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2014)

  • Li'l Sonja (Dynamite Entertainment) (2014)

  • Red Sonja: Berserker (Dynamite Entertainment) (2014)

  • Red Sonja and Cub (Dynamite Entertainment) (2014)

  • Red Sonja: Sanctuary (Dynamite Entertainment) (2014)

  • Red Sonja: Black Tower 1–4 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2014)

  • Red Sonja: Vulture's Circle 1–5 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2015)

  • Conan/Red Sonja 1–4 (Dark Horse Comics/Dynamite Entertainment) (2015)

  • Red Sonja/Conan 1–4 (Dark Horse Comics/Dynamite Entertainment) (2015)

  • Red Sonja #100 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2015)

  • Swords of Sorrow 1-6 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2015)

  • Swords of Sorrow: Red Sonja/Jungle Girl 1–3 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2015)

  • Red Sonja #1973 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2015)

  • Legenderry Red Sonja (Vol. 1) 1–5 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2015)

  • Red Sonja: Altered States (Dynamite Entertainment) (2015)

  • Red Sonja (Vol. 3) 1–6 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2016)

  • Pathfinder: Worldscape 1-6 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2016–2017)

  • Red Sonja (Vol. 4) 0–25 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2016–2019)

  • Red Sonja: The Long Walk to Oblivion (Dynamite Entertainment) (2017)

  • Pathfinder: Worldscape - Red Sonja (Dynamite Entertainment) (2017)

  • Legenderry Red Sonja (Vol. 2) 1–5 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2018)

  • Red Sonja/Tarzan 1-6 (Dynamite Entertainment) (2018)

  • Red Sonja: Halloween Special (Dynamite Entertainment) (2018)

  • Red Sonja: Holiday Special (Dynamite Entertainment) (2018)

  • Red Sonja (Vol. 5) 1- (Dynamite Entertainment) (2019-)

  • Red Sonja: The Ballad of the Red Goddess (Dynamite Entertainment) (2019)

  • Red Sonja and Vampirella meet Betty and Veronica 1- (Dynamite Entertainment) (2019)

  • Red Sonja: Lord of Fools (Dynamite Entertainment) (2019)

  • Red Sonja: The Birth of the She-Devil 1- (Dynamite Entertainment) (2019)

  • Red Sonja: Petitioning the Queen (Dynamite Entertainment) (2019)

  • Vampirella/Red Sonja 1- (Dynamite Entertainment) (2019)

In solo stories in anthologies
  • Conan the Barbarian , (Marvel Comics) (1970–1993).

    • Issue 48, "Episode!", Roy Thomas (w), John Buscema (p), Dick Giordano (i). (First solo story in color).

    • Issue 78, "Curse of the Undead-Man", Roy Thomas (w), John Buscema (a), Pablo Marcos (i). (Reprint from Savage Sword of Conan Issue 1).

  • Savage Sword of Conan , (Marvel Comics) (1974–1995).

    • Issue 1, "Red Sonja" Roy Thomas (w), Esteban Maroto (p), Ernie Chan/Neal Adams (i). (First solo story in black and white. Also featured in the cover painted by Boris Vallejo).

    • Issue 1, "Curse of the Undead-Man", Roy Thomas (w), John Buscema (a), Pablo Marcos (i).

    • Issue 23, "Wizards of the Black Sun", Roy Thomas/Clair Noto (w), Frank Thorne (a). (Featured in the cover painted by Earl Norem)

    • Issue 29, "The Wizard and Red Sonja Show", Frank Thorne (w/a).

    • Issue 45, "Master of Shadows", Christy Marx (w), John Buscema (p), Tony DeZuniga (i).

    • Issue 78, "The Day of the Sword", Roy Thomas/Doug Moench (w), Howard Chaykin (layouts) Dick Giordano/Terry Austin (a). (Origin re-drawn). (Reprint from Kull and the Barbarians Issue 3)

    • Issue 83, "Red Sonja", Roy Thomas (w), Esteban Maroto (p), Ernie Chan/Neal Adams (i). (Reprint from Savage Sword of Conan Issue 1).

    • Issue 157, "Infant Terrible", Bruce Jones (w/a).

    • Issue 169, "The Endless Stair", Peter B. Gillis (w), Steven Carr (p), Armando Gil (i).

    • Issue 172, "The Waif and the Warrior", Jim Valentino (w), Steven Carr (p), Josef Rubinstein (i).

    • Issue 178, "Chains", Sue Flaxman (w), Gavin Curtis (p), Keith Williams (i).

    • Issue 187, "Red Sonja Quells the Song of the Siren", Marie Javins/Steve Buccellato (w), Alfredo Alcala (a).

    • Issue 192, "On the Road of Kings", Roy Thomas/Dann Thomas (w), Tony DeZuniga (a).

    • Issue 194, "The Road to Zamboula", Roy Thomas (w), Tony DeZuniga (a).

    • Issue 195, "Swordless in Zamboula", Roy Thomas (w), Tony DeZuniga (a).

    • Issues 207–10, "The Road to Zanadu", Roy Thomas/Dann Thomas (w), Del Barras/Reggie Jones/ Kirk Etienne (a).

    • Issue 229, "A Lady for the Burning", Roy Thomas (w), Howard Simpson (p), Rober Quijano (i).

    • Issue 230–3, "The Ring of Ikribu" Roy Thomas (w), Esteban Maroto (a).

  • Kull and the Barbarians (Marvel Comics) (1975).

    • Issue 2, "She-Devil with a Sword" Roy Thomas (w), Howard Chaykin (a).

    • Issue 3, "The Day of the Sword" Roy Thomas/Doug Moench (w), Howard Chaykin (a). (Origin story, first appearance of the Red Goddess. Also featured in the cover painted by Michael Whelan)

  • A Marvel Super Special (Marvel Comics) (1978).

    • Issue 9, "Day of the Red Judgement", Roy Thomas/ Christy Marx (w), Howard Chaykin (a). (Second appearance of the Red Goddess from origin story. Also featured in the cover painted by John Buscema)

And with

  • Spider-Man in Marvel Team-Up #79 (Marvel Comics) (The spirit of Sonja possesses the body of Mary Jane Watson to face her old enemy Kulan Gath). The two meet again, albeit in a seemingly different continuity, in the Spider-Man/Red Sonja mini-series co-published by Dynamite Entertainment, in which Kulan Gath and Venom are the principal antagonists. The Spider-Man/Red Sonja TPB (ISBN 978-0-78-512744-4) collects Spider-Man/Red Sonja (2007) #1 – 5 (Oct. 2007 – Feb. 2008) and Marvel Team-Up (1972 – 1985 1st Series) #79 (March 1979).

  • Wolverine in What if? Vol. 2, #16 (Marvel Comics) (Sonja is defeated by Wolverine and becomes his mate).

  • Official Handbook of the Conan Universe #1 (Marvel Comics) (1986).

  • Marvel Feature #4 was reprinted in the book The Superhero Women edited by Stan Lee. Red Sonja was featured among many of Marvel's female characters on the cover painted by John Romita, Sr.

Team-ups with Conan
  • Conan the Barbarian , (Marvel Comics) (1970–1993).

    • Issue 23, "The Shadow of the Vulture", Roy Thomas (w), Barry Smith (a), John Buscema/Akins/Stone (i). (First appearance in a Conan comic publication).

    • Issue 24, "Song of Red Sonja", Roy Thomas (w), Barry Smith (a).

    • Issue 43, "Tower of Blood", Roy Thomas (w), John Buscema/Ernie Chua (i).

    • Issue 44, "The Fiend and the Flame", Roy Thomas (w), John Buscema/The Crusty Bunkers (a).

    • Issue 67, "Talons of the Man-Tiger", Roy Thomas (w), John Buscema (i).

    • Issue 68, "Of Once and Future Kings", Roy Thomas (w), John Buscema (i).

    • Issue 115, "A War of Wizards", Roy Thomas (w), John Buscema/Ernie Chan (i).

    • Issue 195, "Blood of Ages", James Owsley/Val Semeiks (w), Geof Isherwood (f).

    • Issue 196, "The Beast", James Owsley/Val Semeiks (w), Geof Isherwood (f).

    • Issue 197, "Stand", James Owsley/Val Semeiks (w), Geof Isherwood (f).

    • Issue 198, "The River", James Owsley/Val Semeiks (w), Geof Isherwood (f).

    • Issue 199, "Revelation in the Mists", James Owsley/Val Semeiks (w), Geof Isherwood (f).

    • Issue 200, "The Fall of Acheron", James Owsley/Val Semeiks (w), Geof Isherwood(f).

    • Issue 204, "Goblin", James Owsley/Val Semeiks (w), Vince Colletta (f).

    • Issue 205, "Necropolis", James Owsley/Val Semeiks (w), Alfredo Alcala (f).

    • Issue 241–3, "The Sorcerer and the She-Devil", Roy Thomas (w), Mike DeCarlo (i).

    • Issue 244, "Fiends of the Flaming Mountain", Roy Thomas (w), Mike DeCarlo (i).

    • Issue 245, "Empire of the Undead", Roy Thomas (w), Mike DeCarlo (i).

    • Issue 246, "Chaos in Khoraja", Roy Thomas (w), Mike DeCarlo (i).

    • Issue 247, "The Sword that Conquers All", Roy Thomas (w), Mike DeCarlo (i).

    • Issue 248, "The Peril and the Prophecy", Roy Thomas (w), Talaoc/Ernie Chan (i).

    • Issue 249, "Red Wind", Roy Thomas (w), Ernie Chan (i).

    • Issue 250, "Chaos Beneath Kuthchemes", Roy Thomas (w), Ernie Chan (i).

  • Conan the Barbarian Annual (Marvel Comics) (1987).

    • Issue 12, "Legion of the Dead", James Owsley/Val Semeiks (w), Ernie Chan (a).

  • Savage Sword of Conan , (Marvel Comics) (1974–1995).

    • Issue 82, "Song of Red Sonja", Roy Thomas (w), Barry Smith (a). (Reprint from Conan the Barbarian Issue 24).

    • Issue 144, "The Waiting Doom", Charles Dixon (w), Ernie Chan (i).

    • Issue 145, "Feast of the Stag", Charles Dixon (w), Geof Isherwood (f).

    • Issue 153, "Phantasm", James Owsley (w), Luke McDonnell (p) Armando Gil (i).

    • Issue 170, "Emerald Lust", Charles Dixon (w), Gary Kwapisz (i).

    • Issue 179, "Fury of the Iron Damsels", Charles Dixon (w), Gary Kwapisz (i).

    • Issue 223, "The Many Mirrors of Tuzun Thune", Roy Thomas (W), Mike Docherty (p) (Sequel to Ravagers Out of Time graphic novel)

    • Issue 224, "Dragons of a World's Dawn", Roy Thomas (w), E.R. Cruz (i).

    • Issue 226, "Of Kings and Cataclysms", Roy Thomas (w), E.R. Cruz (i); "Days of the World Ending", Roy Thomas (w), E.R. Cruz (i); "Back from the Time Abyss", Roy Thomas (w), E.R. Cruz (i).

  1. Issue 230, "Shall Python Fall?", Roy Thomas (w), E.R. Cruz (i).

  2. Issue 231, "A Remembrance of Fires Past", Roy Thomas (w), E.R. Cruz (i).

  3. Issue 232, "Reflections of Evil", Roy Thomas (w), E.R. Cruz (i).

  4. Issue 233, "Here Be Monsters", Roy Thomas (w), Geof Isherwood (i).

  • Marvel Graphic Novels (1992).

  • Conan – The Ravagers Out of Time , Roy Thomas (w), Alfredo Alcala (i).

  • Conan the King (Marvel Comics) (1985).

    • Issue 28, "Call of the Wild."

  • Conan the Savage (Marvel Comics) (1996).

    • Issue 9, "City Under Siege", Chuck Dixon (w).

  • Sonja and Conan team-up in the crossover Conan/Red Sonja and again in Red Sonja/Conan .

In other media

Novels

Sonja has been featured in several novels by David C. Smith and Richard L. Tierney with covers by Boris Vallejo:

  • #1 The Ring of Ikribu (Ace 1981) (Adapted to comics by Roy Thomas and Esteban Maroto in The Savage Sword of Conan issues 230–3). Smith has written an unproduced screenplay based on this novel.

  • #2 Demon Night (Ace 1982)

  • #3 When Hell Laughs (Ace 1982)

  • #4 Endithor's Daughter (Ace 1982)

  • #5 Against the Prince of Hell (Ace 1983)

  • #6 Star of Doom (Ace 1983)

Television

Angelica Bridges portrayed the character in the "Red Sonja" episode of the 1997–1998 TV series Conan the Adventurer . In 1999, there was a planned TV series with Sable starring as Red Sonja.

Films

The character was played by Brigitte Nielsen in the 1985 film Red Sonja , which also starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as High Lord Kalidor (originally intended to be Conan). The film was directed by Richard Fleischer.

Misty Lee provided the character's voice in the 2016 animated film Red Sonja: Queen of Plagues .

Actress Rose McGowan was originally intended to portray Sonja in 2010's Red Sonja film, but these plans were abandoned after McGowan suffered injuries that permanently damaged the mobility and strength of her right arm. In a February 2011 interview, film producer Avi Lerner stated that Simon West was hired to direct the film and also mentioned Amber Heard as the frontrunner to star in the lead role. On February 26, 2015, Christopher Cosmos was hired to write the film's script. Filmmaker Mike Le Han has made a video for his pitch of him directing Red Sonja . According to Deadline, Millennium Films will finance and produce a new Red Sonja movie with Avi Lerner and Joe Gatta producing alongside with Cinelou Films’ Mark Canton and Courtney Solomon and writing by Ashley Miller. In September 2018, The Hollywood Reporter reported that the studio is considering Bryan Singer to direct the film. The next month in October 2018, Singer was confirmed to direct the film. In February 2019, following allegations against Singer of sexual assault, Millennium stated Red Sonja was no longer on their slate of films. The next month, the studio has removed Singer from directing the film. On June 21, 2019, three months after Singer was removed as director, The Hollywood Reporter has reported that Jill Soloway is hired to write and direct the film.

Awards
  • 1973 Academy of Comic Book Arts Awards: Best Individual Story (Dramatic). The Song of Red Sonja . Written by Roy Thomas and pencilled, inked and colored by Barry Smith. The story first appeared in Conan the Barbarian issue 24 (March 1972), where two panels were censored by John Romita, Sr. The uncensored story was reprinted in Marvel Treasury Edition, Volume 1, No. 15, 1977, where it was recolored by Glynis Wein and the artwork was slightly cropped to fit the page format.

  • Red Sonja publisher Dynamite Entertainment was awarded the title of "Best New Publisher" by Diamond Comics Distributors in 2005.

Legal issues

On June 6, 2006, the comic news site Newsarama reported that Red Sonja, LLC (which holds rights to the Roy Thomas version of the character, created in 1973) filed a lawsuit on four counts against Paradox Entertainment (which claims rights to Red Sonya as part of the Howard library, though no renewal record for "The Shadow of the Vulture" exists) in US Federal Court in April 2006. The four counts are claims of copyright infringement, trademark infringement, trademark dilution, and unfair competition. The lawsuit was settled in January 2008, on the second day of the hearing, for a sum of $1 each. Red Sonja LLC paid $1 to Paradox for the rights to Howard's Red Sonya and permission for the Red Sonja stories to continue being set in Conan's Hyborian Age. Paradox simultaneously paid $1 to Red Sonja LLC for the exclusive print-publication rights for "The Shadow of the Vulture" now that one of the characters belongs to Red Sonja LLC.

Vampirella is a fictional character, a comic book vampire superheroine created by Forrest J Ackerman and comic book artist Trina Robbins in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror comics magazine Vampirella #1 (Sept. 1969). Writer-editor Archie Goodwin later developed the character from horror-story hostesses, in which capacity she remained through issue #8 (Nov. 1970), to a horror-drama leading character.

Publication history

Warren Publishing

Vampirella initially appeared in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror-comics magazine Vampirella #1 (Sept. 1969), running to issue #112 (March 1983), plus a 1972 annual reprinting stories from the series, and a 1977 annual with reprints and one new story. The title was a sister magazine of Warren's horror anthologies Creepy and Eerie . Like those magazines' respective mascots, Uncle Creepy and Cousin Eerie, Vampirella hosted horror stories, though unlike them, she would also star in her own story, which would headline each issue. Vampirella was initially edited by Bill Parente. It would later be edited by Archie Goodwin (issues #7–12, 34–35), Billy Graham (#13–16), Bill DuBay (#21–50, 87–95, 101–102) and Louise Jones (#51–86).

As comics historian Richard J. Arndt describes, "Forrest Ackerman created, or at least had a strong hand in creating, Vampirella and he clearly had a major influence in shaping the lighthearted bad-girl story style of this issue as well." Her costume and hair style were designed by comics artist Trina Robbins. The character's first story artist was Tom Sutton. Artist Frank Frazetta's first-issue cover "was a substitute for the original cover by European artist Aslan."

José González became the character's primary artist starting with issue #12. Other artists who would draw Vampirella during her magazine's original run included Gonzalo Mayo, Leopold Sanchez, Esteban Maroto, José Ortiz, Escolano, Rudy Nebres, Ramon Torrents, Pablo Marcos, Jim Janes, John Lakey, Val Lakey, and Louis Small, Jr..

Backup features appearing in Vampirella included "Tomb of the Gods", "Pantha" and "Fleur". Vampirella herself also appeared in a story with fellow Warren characters Pantha and the Rook in Eerie #94–95, and with most of the Warren characters in a company crossover special in Eerie #130.

Harris Publications

Upon Warren's bankruptcy shortly afterward, Harris Publications acquired the company assets at auction in August 1983, although legal murkiness and a 1999 lawsuit by Warren publisher James Warren resulted in his reacquisition of the rights to sister publications Creepy and Eerie . Harris Comics published Vampirella stories in various series and miniseries from 1991 to 2007, beginning with Vampirella #113 (1988), a one-issue continuation of the original series, containing Vampirella reprints and one unrelated new story. Harris subsequently published the all-reprint one-shot Vampirella vs. the Cult of Chaos , and the four-issue miniseries Vampirella: Morning in America (Sept. 1991 - April 1992) by writer Kurt Busiek and penciler Louis La Chance. Three ongoing series followed:

  • Vampirella #1-5, followed by #0 (Nov. 1992 - Dec. 1994), primarily by plotter Busiek, scriptwriter Tom Sniegoski, and penciler Louis Small Jr.;

  • Vengeance of Vampirella #1-25 (April 1994 - April 1996) by writer Sniegoski and artist Aldrin Aw (under the pseudonym Buzz), and later pencilers including Kirk Van Wormer, Kevin Sharpe, David Perrin, Chris Batista, and Amanda Conner; and

  • Vampirella Strikes #1-7 (Oct. 1995 - Oct. 1996) by writers Sniegoski, David Quinn, Mark Millar, and Ian Edgington, and pencilers including Ed McGuinness, Karl Moline, and Rudy Nebres.

The three-issue miniseries Vampirella Lives (Dec. 1996 - Feb. 1997) featured writer Warren Ellis and penciler Conner.

Additionally, Harris published several one-shots: Vampirella Summer Nights (title per its trademarked cover logo) / Vampirella's Summer Nights (as in the indicia's copyright information) (1992), by writer Steve Englehart and penciler Joe Brozowski (under the pseudonym J. J. Birch), Vampirella/Shadowhawk: Creatures of the Night (Feb. 1995), 'Vampirella Pin-Up Special (Oct. 1995), and Vengeance of Vampirella: The Mystery Walk (Nov. 1995),

Harris also reprinted much material. The 1993 trade-paperback collection Vampirella: The Dracula War reprinted a serialized story from Harris' Vampirella #1-4. The 1994 Cain / Vampirella Flip Book reprinted a 1993 Vampirella story by writer Busiek and artist Arthur Adams from Harris' Creepy 1993 Fearbook . The five-issue Vampirella Classic (Feb.-Nov. 1995) reprinted Warren stories. Vengeance of Vampirella: Bloodshed (March 1995) reprinted a serialized story from the Vengeance of Vampirella series.

The publisher additionally reprinted Warren stories in the trade-paperback Vampirella: Transcending Time & Space , (1992) Vampirella: A Scarlet Thirst (1993), and Vampirella & The Blood Red Queen of Hearts (Sept. 1996); and the series Vampirella of Drakulon #1-5, followed by #0 (Jan.-Nov. 1996).

At the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors convention in January 2007, Scott Licina, editor-in-chief of Fangoria Comics, announced his company had acquired the character from Harris. However, on April 30, 2007, Harris editor Bon Alimagno denied there had been such an arrangement in place and that Fangoria's claim was "not factual". Harris subsequently launched the title Vampirella Quarterly .

Dynamite Entertainment

On March 17, 2010, Dynamite Entertainment acquired the rights to Vampirella from Harris Comics. The publisher started a new ongoing series with Vampirella #1, in November 2010. A new monthly series, Vampirella and the Scarlet Legion , was released in May 2011 following the main title. The series lasted 38 issues before concluding in January 2014. The character and series were rebooted in June 2014 with Vampirella vol. 2, #1 by author Nancy Collins, and again in 2016 with Vampirella vol. 3, #1 in March 2016 in the same continuity but with a new costume. In 2017, Vampirella was relaunched again Vampirella vol. 4, #1 , first written by Paul Cornell, and later by Jeremy Whitley.

Fictional character biography

Vampirella was originally presented as an inhabitant of the planet Drakulon, a world where a vampiric race lived on blood and where blood flowed in rivers. Drakulon orbits twin suns that were causing droughts across the planet. The race of which Vampirella was born, the Vampiri, were able to transform themselves into bats at will, possessed superhuman physical attributes, sprout wings when required to fly, and drink blood.

With the inhabitants of Drakulon dying slowly due to the droughts drying up its blood, a spaceship from Earth crashes on the planet. Vampirella, sent to investigate, is attacked; retaliating, she discovers that the astronauts have blood in their veins. In order for her race to survive, she pilots the ship back to Earth. There, Vampirella becomes a "good" vampire, and devotes her energy to ridding our world of the evil kind. Evil vampires owe their existence to Dracula, who came from Drakulon but was corrupted by Chaos.

Harris Comics revived Vampirella in the miniseries Morning In America , written by Kurt Busiek. Soon thereafter, the story "Mystery Walk" revised her origin. She learned she was, in fact, the daughter of Lilith, whom popular medieval Jewish lore depicts as the first wife of Adam. Lilith would not submit to Adam and, cast out of Eden by God, spawned demons. She later repented and went to Eden to bear children to fight the evil she had created. Her first attempt was Madek and Magdalene, who turned to evil; Vampirella was her second. Madek and Magdalene brainwashed her into believing she was from Drakulon.

Her origin was revised again in Vampirella Lives and elaborated on in Blood Lust . Drakulon was real, but was a place in Hell. Vampirella was brought to Eden, not born there. It was Lilith, not Madek and Magdalene, who made believe Drakulon was another planet. Vampirella and her boyfriend restore the rivers of blood to Drakulon, which weakens Lilith, who is killed by the hand of God.

A further revision in the "World's End" storyline revealed Lilith did not really repent and raised Vampirella to be good because she wanted to release the Heart of Darkness (heart of the fallen angel Malkuth) from Metatron's lance, which could only be done by a good person. This story was revised yet again in Vampirella: Revelations . Lilith is again alive and did not repent, but the reason she raised Vampirella good was that the existence of vampires made Lilith weaker and she wanted someone to kill them. Lilith had used a magic mirror to make Vampirella believe whatever variation on her origin was necessary at the time.

When Dynamite Entertainment acquired the character, its writers killed Adam Van Helsing and had Vampirella working reluctantly with Dracula against a rebellious cult of his former followers. Acquiring Sofia Murray as her sidekick, Vampirella became involved in a plot by the Vatican that ultimately resurrected Von Kreist and led to Sofia's death. Vampirella severed her ties with the Vatican and found herself working for the forces of Order again. Reuniting with a resurrected Van Helsing, Pendragon, and other characters from the Warren Magazine run, Vampirella visits the future and discovers the world destroyed by the supernatural. Trying to form a supernatural kingdom to contradict this, Vampirella falls prey to a conspiracy by Dracula and a group of vampire knights that result in reality becoming unraveled. Lilith banishes Vampirella from her universe in order to save her.

Vampirella was relaunched with Our Lady Of Shadows as an agent of the Vatican before being relaunched again with a new costume in Hollywood Horror under author Kate Leth. In this universe, Vampirella has recently come to Earth and become a Hollywood scream queen. She lives with her live-in boyfriend Tristan and butler Coleridge.

After falling into a thousand-year sleep, Vampirella awakes in a bizarre, dystopian future, where she meets her new sidekick and girlfriend, Vicki, and a black cat she names Grit. After going on a journey through her own mind, Vampirella learns she has absorbed all the memories and experiences of a hundred Vampirellas from parallel universes.

According to the Hack/Slash series Vampirella is currently working as a radio talk show host and has several times teamed up with Cassie and her partner Vlad to stop demons and vampires instead of the standard slashers the series is known for. She and Vlad have an intense physical attraction and relationship, but broke up because his roving lifestyle did not mesh with hers.

Characters

Vampirella

The heroine is a vampire, since she is the daughter of Lilith and needs blood to survive and has many of the typical vampiric powers, including superhuman physical abilities, shapeshifting into a bat, immortality, and a mesmeric stare. She is not prone to the race's traditional weaknesses, such as daylight, holy water, garlic, or crosses. She does not attack people to drink their blood, except occasionally when she herself is attacked or desires to kill. She is almost always scantily clad in her signature red sling suit with a white collar and wearing shiny black knee-high boots.
  • Conrad van Helsing

A blind, psychic vampire hunter. He was pursuing Dracula and initially tried to destroy Vampirella, believing her to be kin to that vampire lord.
  • Adam van Helsing

Conrad's son, and the last of a long line of vampire hunters, he followed his father's steps and became a paranormal researcher. He is portrayed as more open-minded than his father. He believed Vampirella was not evil, and eventually they fell in love. Vampirella has often helped Adam in his research. Adam was killed in Vengeance of Vampirella #25 by Mistress Nyx.
  • Tyler Westron

A physician who rescued Vampirella after a plane crash. Due to the injuries she sustained, he had to amputate her wings and was able to create a substitute blood serum that keeps Vampirella's thirst under control.
  • Dracula

Dracula appears as the most recurring villain of the series[further explanation needed ]
  • Pendragon / Mordecai the Great

A former sorcerer, now a sideshow magician. Vampirella calls him "Pendy dearest" and treats him as she would a kindly old uncle. While occasionally his knowledge of magic is useful to her, Pendragon is often a liability. In the Warren stories they often travel together, seeking out evil-doers, but Pendragon is generally depicted as getting lost, getting drunk, falling asleep, or otherwise fumbling at a critical moment, thus causing a crisis. Vampirella is deeply loyal to him, however; he is the only real family she has.
  • The Blood-Red Queen of Hearts

Formerly known as Jezebel, or the Whore of Babylon, she was once a beautiful woman of ancient Babylon. She served as high priestess of the mad-god Chaos, until she offended her master by demanding that he make her his queen. As punishment, Chaos destroyed her body and trapped her soul within a Queen of Hearts playing card. Though she no longer has a physical form of her own, she has continued to exist for thousands of years as the card. Whenever a woman touches the card, she becomes the Queen. Still seeking to marry the mad-god, the Queen needed a dowry of seven human hearts. Vampirella's heart was to have been the last, but the Queen's demon lost his eyes and tore the Queen's out in anger. The Queen later cut out Vampirella's eyes in revenge, but the former was killed by the same demon and the latter had her eyes restored by a space doctor. The Queen's "sister," actually another woman possessed by the card, had an incubus kill six women for their hearts and planned to have Vampirella become the bride of Chaos. She then killed the incubus and used his heart to summon Chaos. But his spilled blood drove Vampirella into a feeding frenzy and she broke her bonds. She drank much of the Queen's blood, and then threw her into the mad-god's giant hand. He then took the latest Queen to his hellish dimension. The Queen later possessed Vampirella and her friends in the Queen's Gambit story arc.
  • Madek and Magdalene

Evil brother and sister of Vampirella, who planted false memories of the planet Drakulon in Vampirella's mind, in one version of her origin.
  • Draculina , Vampirella's blonde twin sister, who appeared once outside the story in Vampirella #2 (1969) and then never again until her appearance in a story almost 40 years later. Recent appearances of Draculina were on Feary Tales #5 and Vampirella , vol. 2, #11 (both titles by Dynamite, 2015)

  • Nuberus

The demon who tempted Vampirella with her true origin in order to gain access to Earth.
  • Sofia Murray

A young punk girl rescued by Vampirella who becomes her sidekick in the first Dynamite series.
  • Von Kreist

A former Prussian World War I officer, now a lich, who won his state of immortality in a card game with Satan, but at the price of steadily decaying alive. A cruel and sadistic mastermind, with a special victim preference in children.
  • Chaos

The ruler of Hell and the master of most of the villains that Vampirella faces.
  • Mistress Nyx

The daughter of a liaison between the mad-god Chaos and Lucrezia Borgia. A demonic persona, who is bent on destroying Vampirella.
  • Dixie Fattoni

One of two daughters of a Mafioso boss whom she was forced to kill by von Kreist; her twin sister Pixie was turned into a vampire by von Kreist's minions. Vampirella took the orphaned girl under her wing and trained her in combating vampires.
  • Pantha

Initially, alien shapeshifter from Vampirella's native planet who can morph into a black panther. She is generally portrayed as more violent and feral than Vampirella. Later stories rewrote her origin to that of an ancient Egyptian cursed by the gods because of a murderous spree. She is cursed to live forever, with periods where she does not know who or what she is.
  • Lilith

Vampirella's mother and the first woman created by God. Her story is told in the alternate version of the events of Genesis, she was the first wife of Adam, and the mother of demons. She sent her daughter to Earth to atone for her mistakes. Vampirella Revelations #0–3 (see Bibliography) revealed a more sinister side to her.
  • Tristan

Vampirella's boyfriend on Drakulon in the Old Dynamite series. He is Vampirella's boyfriend in the 2016 Dynamite series. He is a werewolf who does not wish to be one and of generally affable demeanor.

Powers and abilities

Vampirella possesses many of the typical powers of mythological vampires. She exerts super-strength when facing her opponents and can move so fast that she appears as a blur of motion. Her senses are far beyond those of humans, allowing her to tell one's emotional state through their scent, hear things imperceptible to humans, and see clearly in total darkness. She is very athletic, possessing great stamina, reflexes, and agility beyond that of humans. Her healing factor grants her great resilience and allows her to heal rapidly from her wounds and makes her immune to Earthly illness and toxins.

Whether she is able to turn other people into vampires is inconsistent. It was a plot point in the Warren era that she could not because she was a being from another planet and not a supernatural creature, but that origin was since revised and she could do it in the Shadowhawk crossover. However, that crossover is out of continuity for Shadowhawk and may be out of continuity for Vampirella.

She had the power to grow a giant pair of chiropteran wings to allow self-propelled flight. Her stare and even voice are hypnotic and seductive to humans, particularly males (she has been seen as having the ability to induce sexual arousal in men simply by being in their presence). She is shown to have the power of telepathy as she was able to hear the voices of demons inside Jackie Estacado's mind.

She is immortal.

In addition to her supernatural abilities, Vampirella is a formidable hand-to-hand combatant and is shown to be skilled with modern-day firearms.

Reception

Vampirella was ranked 35th in Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list.

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