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Red Sonja: Break the Skin                                              One-shot Comic
Cover by: Phil Winslade & Paul Renaud

Robert E. Howard’s She-Devil with a Sword“Know also, O prince, that in those selfsame days that Conan the Cimmerian did stalk the Hyborian Kingdoms, one of the few swords worthy to cross with his was that of Red Sonja, warrior woman out of majestic Hyrkania. Forced to flee her homeland and because she spurned the advances of a king and slew him instead, she rode west across the Turanian Steppes and into the shadowed mists of legendry.”

– The Nemedian Chronicles

Red Sonja: Break the Skin contains:“Break The Skin”
Writer: Jen Van Meter
Artist: Edgar Salazar
Colorist: Caesar Rodriguez
Letterer: Marshall Dillon
Editors: Luke Lieberman & Joseph Rybandt

It looks like such a simple job: Zepur, a princess of the nomadic Talakma Horsemen, sought Sonja’s sword to defeat an unwelcome suitor and his army. When Sonja discovers that she’s led a mercenary band into the middle of a bitter and vicious rivalry for leadership of Zapur’s clan, she’s got to figure out who’s lying to her the least, which promises she can keep, and how to fight the soul-eating avatar of an angry ape god!
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“The Tomb of Three Dead Kings!”
Writer: Roy Thomas
Artist: John Buscema
Inker: Tony DeZuniga
Colorist: George Roussos
Letterer: Joe Rosen
Editors: Roy Thomas & Jim Shooter

Red Sonja encounters a strange, shrouded mummy while riding through the winter snows in the south of Aquilonia. She sees three strange kings on horseback, riding away from the mummy, each one representing each of the three races of men as categorized by the Nemedian scholars. In a tavern in a nearby town she gets into a fight with a group of gambling roughnecks who get the best of her, take her winnings and her sword and throw her into the snow outside. After sleeping off her injuries in another inn she returns to the scene of the fight the following day and takes revenge on her assailants. Here she encounters another enemy wearing a poppy mask that makes her drowsy. She falls unconscious and the man (Lord Sharlo) spirits her away to a castle where he lays her body in a glasshouse filled with weird plants. Here she meets Lord Flurdelie who has been transformed by the three dead kings into a half plant-half man beast who hungers for human flesh. The man in the poppy mask, Lord Sharlo is revealed to be the son of Flurdelie, and rescues Red Sonja from his father only to place her before the tombs of the three dead kings. They burst from their tombs, and it is revealed that they are vampires. Red Sonja slays Lord Sharlo and tosses his body to the vampire-kings, but they have no interest in it for they drink only the blood of women. She flees on horseback through the snow, but she is followed by the three dead kings on their own stallions. She returns to the castle of Flurdelie who refuses to help her destroy the vampire kings and attacks her, hungry for her blood. Red Sonja sets Flurderlie on fire and as he burns the three dead kings arrive. However, they disintegrate before her. Having been tied mystically to the mortals Lord Flurderlie and his son Lord Sharlo, they cannot now survive. Red Sonja is left alone, the only living being in the castle of the dead. Originally published in Red Sonja #15 (1977) Marvel Comics.

Also features a Red Sonja Pin-Up in Glorious Black & White by Edgar Salazar. (see 11^th scan)

Also features a cover gallery of the Regular & Variant covers. (see 12^th scan)

Comic is bagged & double boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

First Printing
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Publication Date: 2011
Format per comic: FC, 40 pages, Comic, 10.2″ x 6.65″
UPC: 725130166296

Collectible Entertainment note: One-shot Comic is in Very Fine condition.  Beautiful!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Red Sonja collector and/or enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Highly Recommended.

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