Many tales are told of the woman warrior called Red Sonja. In many ways she is the quintessential fantasy heroine. This is ironic, given her background as a pastiche character that was created for the ...

Introduced in Marvel Comics’ Conan the Barbarian #23 (1973), Red Sonja quickly became an icon of sword-and-sorcery fiction. Created by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith, she was inspired by Robert E.