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Knuckles the Echidna #6 - August 1997
 | "Lost Paradise - Zero Hour And Counting"
Writer: Ken Penders
Penciler: Manny Galan
Inker: Andrew Pepoy
With all that's been happening lately, The Floating Island has never been busier. Everything comes to a head as Knuckles risks it all to save his mom from the Dingoes. What will happen to Echidnaopolis? Is it back for good... or will it be destroyed? What lengths will General Stryker go to win? These questions and more will be answered in the conclusion of "The Lost Paradise" in Knuckles #6!
Cover by Patrick Spaziante & Ken Penders |
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Sonic The Comic #109 - August 1997
 | “The Evil Empire – Part Two”
Writer: Nigel Kitching
Artist: Richard Elson
At the House of War in the Drakon Empire Sonic is being accused of crimes against the empire. The crime he’s accused with was destroying the Sentinel he met in STC 29 and Robotnik has told the Drakon Empire they’re under threat from Mobius so Sonic has been placed under trial, by combat. Once Sonic has been left in a cell Tails flies up to the window to make his presence known, but Sonic assures him that the situation isn’t as bad as it seems. Meanwhile Robotnik is telling Grimer of his plan to use the support of the Drakon Empire in order to gain control of Mobius again. Then he reveals that his Knuckles Metallix will be the one fighting Sonic in the trial tomorrow.
“Kog the Mighty”
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Andy Pritchett
Tails fights off some badniks that use electricity as a weapon, but their charge travels along an underground cable waking up a long forgotten robot. The robot climbs up to the construction site and tells Tails that he is Kog, the first robot created by Kintobor before he changed into the evil Robotnik. One of the construction workers tries to destroy Kog but Tails stops him saying Kog could teach them a lot about history. And indeed once Kog has been clean up he serves his purpose teaching the history of the land to local citizens.
“Star Struck – Part One”
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Roberto Corona
As a reward for saving him Norris Wimple has invited Amy and Tekno to come with him to the concert of a pop singer called Fabian Vane. They both wish they didn’t have to be there but the concert soon comes to an end anyway when one member of the audience tries to attack Fabian Vane. Amy and Tekno manage to fight the crazed “fan” so Fabian decides to hire them as personal bodyguards. The girls reluctantly agree once they realise he’s in real danger and escape in Fabian’s hover car when more “fans” come to attack him. They think there’s something Fabian’s not telling them and decide to find out what it is.
Cover Art: Richard Elson |
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Sonic The Comic #110 - August 1997
 | “The Evil Empire – Part Three”
Writer: Nigel Kitching
Artist: Richard Elson
Sonic arrives at the arena where his trial by combat will be held and tells Robotnik even if he doesn’t make it out of this alive Robotnik will never get control of Mobius again. Robotnik says that with the help of the Drakon Empire taking over Mobius won’t be difficult but the Emperor reminds him that he needs to stick to his end of the bargain as well. The Metallix is brought into the arena and both the accused and the prosecutor are given metal staffs to use against each other in combat. Sonic thinks he can get an advantage because of his speed but the Metallix soon proves him wrong by using his death ray against the hedgehog. Tails is watching the fight from a large TV monitor outside and wonders how he can get in to help.
“The Unbrushables”
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Nigel Dobbyn
Tails goes to the Casino Night Zone for some rest but soon discovers he’s not going to get this when Max Gamble’s mob trash the shop of a man who can’t pay his “Protection Money”. Tails manages to convince the citizens to fight back against the mobs and goes to handle Max Gamble himself. However he discovers that Max is really working for Robotnik and the money he’s collecting will go towards a new army of Troopers once Robotnik has returned to power. Max tries to set his mob on Tails but when they find out he’s working for Robotnik they change their minds about helping him since even they don’t Robtnik back.
“Star Struck – Part Two”
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Roberto Corona
During an interview Fabian Vane gets a call from another crazed “fan” how wants to pull his head off. Tekno manages to track the call so she and Amy can hunt down the man who made the call, who turns out to be the same guy that attacked Fabian at the concert. They easily manage to defeat him and he reveals that he was Fabian’s previous bodyguard before Amy and Tekno got the job. Back at the studio the other “fans” arrive to get Fabian, only this time the two girls are on their side. They tell Fabian they’ve discovered the “fans” were really after him because he owes them large sums of money and won’t pay up. He gives them the money in the end and says this won’t affect him; he’ll still be famous. But it turns out that in the fast moving world of pop music he’s already been replaced by a new singer and becomes yesterday’s news.
Cover Art: Richard Elson |
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Sonic Super Special #2: Brave New World - September 1997
 | "Brave New World"
Writer & Artist: Ken Penders
The first in a series of quarterly specials! This one has it all, fans. The Freedom Fighters travel into Robotropolis to assess the amount of damage done to their former city of Mobotropolis. But what kind of surprises await them? And are they friendly or deadly? Also, witness Sonic meet - uh, uh, ahhh - that would be telling. All we can say is that no Sonic fan would want to miss this issue!
Cover by Patrick Spaziante & Ken Penders |
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Sonic The Hedgehog #53 - September 1997
 | "Unfinished Business"
Writer and Inker: Ken Penders
Penciler: Art Mawhinney
Knuckles and Sonic... friends? As the Freedom Fighters handle recent events, Knuckles and Julie-Su come to town. For what purpose? Read and see for yourself...
"Sounds Of Silence"
Writer: Karl Bollers
Penciler: Sam Maxwell
Inker: Pam Eklund
And if you thought that was all the surprises we had in store for you- there's more! So you thought Robotnik being gone would be the end of the Freedom Fighter's problems? Not when you have the return of people like Robotnik's mentor, Warlord Kodos and the 'supposed' creator of the Zone of Silence, wizard extraordinare, Ixis Naugus, vying for control!
Cover by Patrick Spaziante & Harvey Mercadoocasio |
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Sonic The Comic #111 - September 1997
 | “The Evil Empire – Part Four”
Writer: Nigel Kitching
Artist: Richard Elson
Tails manages to break his way into the building to try and help Sonic, who is getting beaten by the Metallix. The fox calls his friend over and when the Metallix follows he gets crushed in a large metal door. A Prosecutor turns up to get Sonic back but he takes it down and finds out that under the robotic bodies Drakon are actually fish. The Emperor says that since Sonic defeated the Metallix he won the trial and is free to go. But before leaving Sonic tells him that as long as the Drakon Empire works with Robotnik they’ll be his enemies.
“Hero of the Beach”
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Andy Pritchett
While Tails protects a new holiday resort called Skegpool against the possible threat of a badnik attack from Flickies’ Island some Mobians talk about how much of a hero he is. One person however, Daz Dynamo, doubts Tails is a real hero at all. Aware of Tails protecting the beach from the sky Robotnik sends some Caterkillers to attack from underground. Tails manages to fight them all off and sends the remaining waste from the Chemical Plant Zone down the hole straight into Robotnik’s base. Daz then decides that maybe Tails is an “Okay dude” after all.
“Spaced Out – Part One”
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Roberto Corona”
Amy and Tekno meet Johnny Lightfoot while taking a walk in the Emerald Hill Zone and ask where he’s been for so long. Johnny says he’s been away visiting family and while they’re talking about old friends Amy wonders where Shortfuse The Cybernik has been. Tekno says she’s been working on a machine that can track the frequencies of the circuits in Shortfuse’s armour so they go to test it out. A holographic image of Shortfuse appears and they notice he has something weird stuck to his armour, but before they can discuss this more the machine malfunctions and transports the girls to another dimension. They reappear on a space ship where a group called the Insectra Empire attacks them. After managing to escape one of the group comments that the Destroyer will get them, and this Destroyer turns out to be Shortfuse, who is an enemy now! |
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Sonic The Comic #112 - September 1997
 | “No Future”
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Mick McMahon
Robotnik creates a new badnik that apparently transports Sonic 1000 years in the future to a world where badnik’s still rule even though Robotnik himself is long gone. The people of the future seem to enjoy being hurt by the badniks and start to attack Sonic when he tries to save them from the badniks. But Sonic realises this future isn’t what Mobius will really become and breaks the illusion the first badnik had on his mind, bringing him back to present time. After that vision Sonic only becomes more determined then ever to take down Robotnik.
“Channel Hoppers”
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Carl Flint
A new TV show called the Channel Hoppers (Think Teletubbies) is grabbing the attention of teenagers nationwide. After watching the show kids want to act out Badniks vs. Sonic matches, and they say the badniks are the cool ones! Their parents insist this must be a phase they’re going through but Tails isn’t so sure and goes to pay these Channel Hoppers a visit. He finds out that they’re really members of D.R.A.T. broadcasting a frequency only young minds can pick up making them believe Robotnik is wonderful. But Tails’s friend Tim Tuna manages to block the communication and send a message across telling everyone the real plot instead, causing the Channel Hoppers’ plan to fail.
“It’s Raining Bananas”
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Andy Pritchett
This one off story is told entirely in rhyme. The Emerald Hill folk are enjoying a normal day when out of nowhere bananas start raining from the sky. Sonic suspects Grimer might be behind this and over at Flickies’ Island we find out he’s right. The machine Grimer created was supposed to launch missiles but for some reason its launching bananas instead. He tries to fix this problem with a sledgehammer but after stopping the machine he’s faced with more bananas, as Sonic has created a twister to send them back.
“Spaced out – Part Two”
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Roberto Corona
Amy says she’s seen enough sci-fi movies to guess the thing on Shortfuse’s chest is controlling his mind, but he captures them before they can do anything about it. He takes them to Grand Visor, the leader of the Insectra Empire and would be ruler of the galaxy. Amy keeps him talking while Tekno tries to get the creature off Shortfuse’s chest. When the guards try to attack Tekno they accidentally knock the creature off and Shortfuse isn’t the slightest bit happy about being controlled. But before he can get even with them the Blurrgh, enemy of the Insectra, attacks the ship.
Cover Art: Mick McMahon |
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Sonic The Comic #113 - September 1997
 | “The Detour”
Writer: Nigel Kitching
Artist: Richard Elson
Sonic and Tails are looking for a place to land the bi-plane, but because of a mass of fog they can’t even see the land. They manage to find a gap in the fog and head for it, but the place they end up landing in isn’t like anywhere they’ve ever seen before. Tails comments that trying to find a way around this fog is worse then being stuck in a maze, when the fog clears to reveal they really are in a maze. Then Tails starts to tell Sonic about a story he read where a minotaur lived in a maze, when a minotaur turns up and tries to squash them. They manage to escape and Tails says they were lucky it wasn’t a yeti that attacked them when a yeti does attack them. Sonic says can handle one, and Tails comments it’s a good thing he didn’t bring his tribe. And low behold his tribe turns up. They run to hide in a cave while Sonic wonders about everything Tails says coming true. He runs out to say the games up when one of the Tantaror reveals himself. He tells them they must do what he wants, but then his father turns up telling him he can’t have pets until he knows how to look after them. So Sonic and Tails get sent back to Mobius.
“Fall of the Leaf – Part One”
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Nigel Dobbyn
Tails is travelling through Eldorado Zone when a Drill-Bot from an underground diamond mine goes crazy due to the large amount of jewellery in the area and attacks. He stops the Drill-Bot but when he doesn’t accept the offer of jewellery as a reward the citizens think there’s something wrong with him and want him to clear off. Before he can leave however he’s accused of a robbery with photo evidence…
“Spaced Out – Part Three”
Writer: Lew Stringer
Artist: Roberto Corona
The Insectra are shot down onto an alien planet by their enemies and the two sides what to settle the fight there and then. But the leader of the KaamDaarn race who lives on the planet, Mello, along with her friend Amber step in to stop them, saying there’s no violence on this planet. The Insectra and the Blurrgh try to make a temporary alliance to take over this new planet but due to the planet’s energy flow their weapons don’t function forcing them to give in. After the fight Shortfuse decides to stay here instead of going back to Mobius because the KaamDaarn might be able to find a way to get him out of his armour. So the girls set off to return home without him.
Cover Art: Mick Mahon |
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Sonic Firsts - October 1997
 | You say you're looking for some hard-to-find Sonic issues? Well look no further than this special collection of Sonic comic "Firsts!" Included in this slick volume are: "Don't Cry For Me, Mobius!": The first Archie-produced Sonic comic story, originally published in both Sonic the Hedgehog #0 and the Sonic the Hedgehog #1/4 ashcan! "Rabbot Deployment": The first comic book appearance of Bunnie Rabbot from Sonic the Hedgehog #3! "Lizard of Odd": The first time in the comics that Sonic is transformed into Super Sonic, from Sonic the Hedgehog #4! "This Island Hedgehog": The first comic book appearance of Knuckles, originally presented in Sonic the Hedgehog #13!
"Don't Cry For Me, Mobius!"
Writer: Mike Gallagher
Penciler: Scott Shaw!
Inker: Jorge Pacheco
"Rabbot Deployment"
Writer: Mike Gallagher
Penciler: Dave Manak
Inker: Jon D'Agostino
"Lizard of Odd"
Writer: Mike Gallagher
Penciler: Dave Manak
Inker: Henry Scarpelli
"This Island Hedgehog"
Writers: Mike Kanterovich & Ken Penders
Penciler: Dave Manak
Inker: Jon D'Agostino
Cover by Patrick Spaziante & Harvey Mercadoocasio |
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Knuckles the Echidna #7 - October 1997
 | "Dark Vengeance - Deadly Homecoming"
Writer: Ken Penders
Penciler: Manny Galan
Inker: Andrew Pepoy
This issue marks the return of everybody's favorite echidna villain... Enerjak. And if you thought Knuckles already had it tough, The Dark Legion will make it even tougher!
Cover by Patrick Spaziante, Manny Galan, & Ken Penders |
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