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Issue 1  
Date November 1975
Cover Gil Kane, Dan Adkins
 
The Temple of Abomination                                                                        8 : 1/1
Writer Roy Thomas
Artist Dick Giordano
Inks Dick Giordano, Terry Austin
Location Darkwood, Nemidia
Summary Sonja discovers a temple in the forest, takes pity on the imprisoned priest within and defeats the evil satyr creatures of the temple.
Comments Story follows on from Conan the Barbarian #48 and Kull and the Barbarians #3. Plot is loosely based around Little Red Riding Hood.
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Red Sonja                                                                                                       10 : 1/1
Writer Roy Thomas
Artist Esteban Maroto, Neal Adams
Inks Ernie Chua
Location Pah-Dishah, Hyrkania
Summary Sonja returns with Seprpent Tiarra to the king of Pah-Dishah but is imprisioned in his harem. She kills the king and his albino bodyguard and escapes.
Comments Story continues directly on from Conan the Barbarian #24, reprinted from Savage Sword of Conan #1.
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Issue 2 Blood of the Hunter 17 : 1/2
Date January 1976
Writer Bruce Jones
Artist Frank Thorne
Cover Frank Thorne
Inks Frank Thorne
Location Khishtam
Summary Sonja steals a key from a brigand who tracks her, slaughtering those he meets before defeating Sonja only to be killed by a snake in Sonja's pack.
Comments First Frank Thorne art for Marvel.
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Issue 3 Balek Lives 17 : 2/2
Date March 1976
Writer Bruce Jones
Artist Frank Thorne
Inks Frank Thorne
Cover Frank Thorne
Characters Neja
Location Hills near Khishtam
Summary Running from more brigands, Sonja meets the witch Neja who takes the key Sonja stole in the previous issue and uses it to reanimate a huge mechanical man called Balek. Sonja defeats them both.
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Issue 4 Eyes of the Gorgon 17 : 1/1
Date May 1976
Writer Bruce Jones
Artist Frank Thorne
Inks Frank Thorne
Cover Frank Thorne
Location Not revealed.
Summary Sonja rides into a village plagued by a supposed Gorgon. She is hanged and rescued. Discovering that the Gorgon is a fake, she defeats the conspirators.
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Issue 5 The Bear God Walks 17 : 1/1
Date July 1976
Writer Bruce Jones
Artist Frank Thorne
Inks Frank Thorne
Cover Frank Thorne
Characters Tusan
Location Yorkin, Zingara
Summary Sonja joins a bounty hunt for a Bear God terrorising a village, joined by the minstrel Tusan. The Bear God is a fake employed to extort money. Sonja is saved from the conspirators by the appearance of the real Bear God's spirit.
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Issue 6 Beware the Sacred Sons of Set 17 : 1/4
Date September 1976
Writer Roy Thomas
Artist Frank Thorne
Inks Frank Thorne
Cover Frank Thorne
Characters Karanthes, Conan, Belit
Location Road from Zingara to Argos; Messantia, Argos
Summary Sonja is recruited by Karanthes to steal a page of the Iron-Bound Book of Skelos, she enters Argos via the sewers, battling summoned crocodilian humanoids on the way. She emerges to find Conan and Belit also attempting to steal the page.
Comments Sonja's introduction into the cross-over story with Conan the Barbarian. Story continues in Conan the Barbarian #67.
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Issue 7 The Battle of the Barbarians 17 : 3/4
Date November 1976
Writer Roy Thomas
Artist Frank Thorne
Cover Frank Thorne
Inks Frank Thorne
Characters Karanthes, Conan, Belit
Location Argos
Summary Sonja escapes to the temple of Karanthes with the page from the Iron-Bound Book of Skelos, Conan and Belit follow. Coana and Sonja battle for the page before reconcilliation.
Comments Cross-over story which continues from Conan the Barbarian #67 and finishes in Conan the Barbarian #68. Final issue of Marvel Feature Presents before Sonja gets her own title.
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