Sonic the Hedgehog#1

Cover: Scott Shaw

Sonic the Hedgehog #1

Mar 1993 · Archie · 1.25 USD; 1.50 CAD

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★ 1st appearance — Sonic the Hedgehog★ 1st appearance — Dr. Robotnik

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Sonic the Hedgehog #1 (1993) is the opening chapter of what would become the longest-running comic series based on a video game — a Guinness World Records–recognized distinction the overall Archie run eventually earned across 290 issues. As the first installment of the ongoing series (following the four-issue 1992 miniseries), it locked in the Freedom Fighters premise drawn from the DIC animated series Sonic SatAM and established the Planet Mobius setting that would define Sonic's comic-book identity for over two decades. The issue also set the light, pun-driven, multi-story anthology format that shaped the series' early tone before later writers evolved it into more complex, serialized storytelling. For an entire generation of 1990s kids, this was the entry point into an expanded Sonic universe that no video game at the time could yet provide.

Contains 2 stories

Run, Sally, Run

11 pp · Adventure, Anthropomorphic-Funny Animals

Sonic the hedgehogPrincess Sally AcornTailsBuzzbomberRobotnikAntoine D'CooletteRotorBoomer

Something Fishy

8 pp · Adventure, Anthropomorphic-Funny Animals

Sonic the hedgehogJaws the mechanical fishTailsRotor

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History

After the success of the 1991 Sega Genesis game, Archie Comics secured the Sonic license in mid-1992 and assigned editor Darryl Edelman to develop the title. An initial pitch for the first issue was rejected, leading to the recruitment of writer Michael Gallagher and artist Scott Shaw!, who were both given Sega Genesis consoles to study the source material alongside DIC's character model sheets and story outlines for both animated Sonic series. Gallagher composed scripts by sketching rough layouts for Shaw to build on — a workflow editor Edelman favored because each script also had to clear approval from both Sega and DIC before publication. Shaw departed before the miniseries concluded, and Gallagher's friend Dave Manak stepped in as the ongoing series' primary penciler starting with this issue.

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First issue of the Archie Sonic the Hedgehog ongoing series; cover-dated 1993, following the four-issue miniseries (Sonic the Hedgehog #0–3) that ran November 1992–early 1993.
Written by Michael Gallagher; cover and interior art by Scott Shaw! (his final regular penciling work on the series before Dave Manak took over).
Contains two main stories: 'Meet Me at the Corner of Hedgehog and Vine,' featuring Robotnik's mechanical plant Krudzu threatening Knothole, and 'You Bet My Life!,' set in the Casino Night Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
The issue is the last in the Archie series to use stock Sega Sonic images for the corner box.
After a production gap in March/April 1993, this issue's release month (May 1993) marks the beginning of an unbroken streak — at least one Sonic-related Archie comic published every single month thereafter through the series' end.
The series the issue launched ran for 290 total issues (until December 2016) and was recognized by Guinness World Records as the longest-running comic series based on a video game.
The lead story 'Meet Me at the Corner of Hedgehog and Vine' was subsequently reprinted in the June/July, August/September, and October/November 1993 issues of Sega Visions magazine, and later in Sonic Archives Vol. 1.
The issue draws its characters and setting — the Freedom Fighters, Knothole Village, Robotropolis — from the DIC animated series Sonic SatAM, establishing the comic's distinct continuity separate from the video games.