Red Sonja #2 [Direct]
(October 1983)

Marvel, 1983 Series
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Volume
3
Price
1.00 USD; 0.50 GBP; 1.25 CAD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
published 4 times a year
On-sale Date
1983-06-07
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Editing
Larry Hama (editor); Christopher Priest (assistant editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #27, with newsstand on-sale date of 1983-06-28.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Red Sonja / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Mary Wilshire (signed)
Inks
Walter Simonson; ?
Colors
?
Genre
sword and sorcery
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Simonson comments in a facebook post, that he inked the original pencils, but "Marvel editorial decided to give the cover to another artist to have more inks added to improve it. I don't remember who the other inker was if I ever knew."

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Blood Debt! (Table of Contents: 1)

Red Sonja / comic story / 38 pages (report information)

Script
Tom DeFalco
Pencils
Mary Wilshire
Inks
Nestor Redondo
Colors
Christie Scheele
Letters
Janice Chiang
Genre
sword and sorcery
Characters
Red Sonja; Byratus; Galon; Jurgon; Feema; Achmal; Caldros; Lassusar
Synopsis
After drinking poisoned water, Sonja is nursed back to health by a stranger who is killed before she learns his name. Seeking revenge for him, she travels to Alwazar and ends up in military service to a woman general.
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Red Sonja / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from John Brittan, Brian Lee, James L. Frye, John Tim Schorle, Donald Dunphy, CK, Charles Haskell, Ann Stratton, F. H. Sikes III.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Red Sonja
  2. 1. Blood Debt!
    Red Sonja
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Red Sonja
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist
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