Spider-Man/Red Sonja

**Spider-Man/Red Sonja** is a 2007 comic book limited series co-published by Marvel Comics and Dynamite Entertainment. It features a crossover between the original Marvel incarnation of Red Sonja and Marvel Comics' Spider-Man.

## Solicitation

The wise-cracking Wall-Crawler collides with the She-Devil with a Sword!

Longtime Marvel readers know that these two legends have met before -- but that was just the warm-up!

## Issues

Issue #1
October 2007Issue #2
November 2007Issue #3
December 2007Issue #4
January 2008Issue #5
February 2008
## Plots

### Issue #1

They may be from two different eras, but Spider-Man and Red Sonja have both faced the maniacal mage known as Kulan Gath. Now the sadistic sorcerer makes a play for power that will once again bring these two famous heroes together -- but will it be as friends or foes?

Writer Michael Avon Oeming and Mel Rubi– plus series cover artist Michael Turner – answer the eternal question: What's better in a fight, the proportional strength and speed of a spider, or cold, hard steel and a chain–mail bikini?

Everything seems ordinary in New York City as Spider-Man swings around town and fights a group of bad guys ... all while talking on his cell phone to MJ!

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Senator Thomas is attending a major art exhibit while battling his conscience over some shady dealings with his confidant, Reilly. J Jonah Jameson welcomes the Senator to the exhibit with kind words, hoping to score an interview. Thomas agrees to it, but his eyes are drawn to a unique necklace on display. Though the curator, Professor Jones protests, Thomas puts on the necklace. This in turn releases the imprisoned spirit of the sorcerer Kulan Gath. Using his vast powers, he reshapes New York City into his own medieval/Hyborian version of itself. Spider-Man seems to be the only one unaffected by the spell.

People are still in need of help, though, so he springs to action to save the commoners. As he does so, Gath wishes Professor Jones to be his scribe. Refusing, Gath kills him and then requests Jameson to take over the duties. Gath then conjures up a sword and tells about how Spider-Man and Red Sonja foiled his plans before when they teamed up. This time he wishes to pit them against each other so they will be occupied. He calls forth Mary Jane to claim the sword and become Red Sonja. Spider-Man continues to fight his assailants, who have somehow become goblins in the meantime. Even though he saves the people, they fear Spider-Man as a demon. Getting away, he sees what used to be the Met and a strange glow. He goes to it to investigate and sees Mary Jane climbing the walls to get to the sword on the roof. Confronting her after she grabs it, he is instead face with Red Sonja.

### Issue #2

Look out, Spidey, the She-Devil with a Sword is out for your blood! Two legendary heroes come together at the command of the sinister sorcerer Kulan Gath-so you know it won't be for tea and crumpets! Oh, and did we mention that Venom has entered the fray? No man can defeat Red Sonja in battle-but what about a symbiote? It's more web-slinging and sword-swinging!

Note: Story takes place before Civil War.

### Issue #3

If Spider-Man vs. Red Sonja wasn’t enough, now it’s Kulan Gath vs. Venom! Our heroes' worst foes collide -- but who will emerge victorious? What will this mean for the Wall-Crawler and the She-Devil with a sword? Which three members of the Web-Slinger’s rogues gallery have also joined the chaos? And have we mentioned that if Red Sonja dies, so does Mary Jane?

### Issue #4

Continuing the time-tossed team-up between the web-slinger and the She-Devil with a Sword! Okay, if Spider-Man and Red Sonja aren’t enough for you, what about Hyborean versions of the Scorpion, the Lizard and Hobgoblin? Still not enough? Then how about Kulan Gath and Venom…combined? Yeah, we thought that would do it.

### Issue #5

Swords vs. webs – the final battle! Spider-Man! Kulan Gath! Red Sonja! Venom! Locked together in a fight for survival, all four famous characters collide in this supernatural, super heroic fiery finale! Can Spider-Man prevent the sinister sorcerer from killing the She-Devil With A Sword, who just happens to be inhabiting the body of Mary Jane? Or is MJ and all of New York City stuck in a Hyborean nightmare?

## Notes

* In the limited series, Red Sonja possesses Mary Jane at one point
* This crossover is an expansion/retelling of the story from the 1979 comic, Marvel Team-Up Featuring Spider-Man and Red Sonja
* Marvel published this story again in 2008 as issues 22-26 of *Astonishing Spider-Man*.