A Red Sonja Cover Gallery CXLV:
Noir

This is the one hundred forty-fifth installment in our Red Sonja themed cover galleries, continuing from the first gallery. Below, we present ten selected covers from the Red Sonja Noir (2025) one-shot.

1

  • title: Red Sonja Noir (2025)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Kendrick Kunkka
  • writer: David Avallone
  • artist: Edu Menna
  • issue: #1 of 1
  • cover: 616 Comics retailer exclusive variant
  • release date: June 18, 2025
  • commentary: This was one of the retailer exclusive covers that shipped the week of June 18, 2025, while the official publication date was supposedly June 25, 2025. Since retailers typically are strict in holding to the release date, we suppose that the delay in the regular A, B and C covers can be attributed to the on-going problems of Diamond Distribution.

2

  • title: Red Sonja Noir (2025)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Kendrick Kunkka
  • writer: David Avallone
  • artist: Edu Menna
  • issue: #1 of 1
  • cover: 616 Comics retailer exclusive variant
  • release date: June 18, 2025
  • commentary: We suppose that this cover qualifies as a "splash color variant".

3

  • title: Red Sonja Noir (2025)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Donghee Kim
  • writer: David Avallone
  • artist: Edu Menna
  • issue: #1 of 1
  • cover: Knight of Comics retailer exclusive variant
  • release date: June 18, 2025
  • commentary: To our knowledge, this is the first Red Sonja cover by Donghee Kim.

4

  • title: Red Sonja Noir (2025)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Donghee Kim
  • writer: David Avallone
  • artist: Edu Menna
  • issue: #1 of 1
  • cover: Knight of Comics retailer exclusive variant
  • release date: June 18, 2025
  • commentary: In recent years, the Knight of Comics retailer exclusive variants have included a second version of the cover with gold highlights. Examples of this style are featured in galleries of the following themes
    • Red Sonja (2023): #36
    • Death and the Devil: #5 & #14
    • Noir: #4 & #6

5

  • title: Red Sonja Noir (2025)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Rudy Ao
  • writer: David Avallone
  • artist: Edu Menna
  • issue: #1 of 1
  • cover: Knight of Comics retailer exclusive variant
  • release date: June 18, 2025

6

  • title: Red Sonja Noir (2025)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Rudy Ao
  • writer: David Avallone
  • artist: Edu Menna
  • issue: #1 of 1
  • cover: Knight of Comics retailer exclusive variant
  • release date: June 18, 2025

7

  • title: Red Sonja Noir (2025)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Bruce Timm
  • writer: David Avallone
  • artist: Edu Menna
  • issue: #1 of 1
  • cover: Happy Comics retailer exclusive variant
  • release date: June 18, 2025
  • commentary: To our knowledge, this is the first Red Sonja cover by Bruce Timm.

8

  • title: Red Sonja Noir (2025)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Leirix Li
  • writer: David Avallone
  • artist: Edu Menna
  • issue: #1 of 1
  • cover: A cover
  • release date: June 18, 2025 (actually July 16, 2025)
  • commentary: On the first Wednesday of Dynamite books being distributed by their new distributor, Lunar, local stores received the non-exclusive (e.g. A, B, C etc.) covers a month after the exclusive books appeared.

9

  • title: Red Sonja Noir (2025)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cover artist: Joseph Michael Linsner
  • writer: David Avallone
  • artist: Edu Menna
  • issue: #1 of 1
  • cover: B variant
  • release date: June 18, 2025 (actually July 16, 2025)

10

  • title: Red Sonja Noir (2025)
  • publisher: Dynamite
  • cosplay model: Molly Stewart
  • writer: David Avallone
  • artist: Edu Menna
  • issue: #1 of 1
  • cover: C variant
  • release date: June 18, 2025 (actually July 16, 2025)
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