Technically you could say Red Sonja was the 1st b/c Roy Thomas won the lawsuit and owns the copyright for that character inspire of not getting credit for that movie, hence her first legal appearance was in the Marvel comics. Of course, that makes her legally independent and not apart of Marvel's House of Ideas.
I know that made Steve Gerber and Marv Wolfman jealous who both lost their lawsuits with Marvel over Howard and Blade respectively. I suppose Roy knew how to pick his battles since he was going against the Robert E. Howard estate claiming Red Sonya, a gun slinger from Russia, is the original. Gerber would go on to create Destroyer Duck for Epic comics and steal Howard in a cute/sneaky Image/Marvel crossover ala the Spider-Man clone saga. The best Marv Wolfman could do was do another Dracula (public domain character) with Dark Horse sans his vampire hunters like Blade and Hannibal King.
All good things must come to an end - Chaucer
reply
share