Thomas and Windsor-Smith took the title and plot, changed the y to a j, set the whole thing in Conan’s prehistoric world, and a fanboy dream was born (although the metal bikini came later). Specifically, in the 1934 story “The Shadow of the Vulture,” Sonya seeks to avenge her family’s death at Suleiman the Magnificent, which sets the story squarely in the 1520s. ‘Sonja’ is the character who previously appeared in Marvel’s Conan comics and her own miniseries, while ‘Sonya’ is known perhaps best to Howard aficionados.” ‘Red Sonja’ is the character derived from Howard’s works by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith in 1973. ‘Red Sonya,’ which Paradox now owns, is the original Howard version, a female pirate who was not a contemporary of Conan. The difference of course, being in the spelling of the last name. “Paradox does own the rights to Red Sonya, while the Red Sonja Corporation retains the rights to Red Sonja. None of those hot-selling titles will be affected, but here’s where things get tricky: Newsarama probes the deal in detail, because Conan and Red Sonja have been reappearing in all-new oomic book adaptations and original stories in recent years (as at right). Howard’s collected writings have been bought up by Paradox Entertainment, which has held the literary rights to the stories featuring Conan the Barbarian since 2002. As reported in Variety, the rights to Robert E.
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