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Captain Plunder's own adventures

Captain Plunder first turns up as a sky pirate in a Sonic adventure, pursuing treasure without sharing Robotnik's cause. His own four-part strip begins with a raid on Robotnik's airship that leaves Plunder captured and facing execution. Shanghaied gives the pirate another three-part outing, and the six-part Spice Maidens story places him beside Queen Zorabel's unruly daughters in a new treasure hunt. Together the appearances show how a supporting adversary could sustain adventures with his own crew, comic mishaps and changing fortunes away from Sonic's lead strip.

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  1. Cover of Sonic the Comic issue 23

    Issue 023 · 15 April 1994

    Sonic the Comic #23

    Sonic's team searches Mystic Cave for the kidnapped Amy. Captain Plunder offers to trade her for the Chaos Emeralds, but Amy suggests raiding Robotnik's air freights instead.

  2. Cover of Sonic the Comic issue 47

    Issue 047 · 17 March 1995

    Sonic the Comic #47

    Aboard the luxury airship Robotnicus, Robotnik's party for Mobius's villains is crashed by Captain Plunder and the Sky Pirates. Confident his vault needs distant keys, Robotnik leads them there — until poltergeist Filch walks through the door and opens it from inside. The crew hauls the tax treasure clear before Troopers arrive, then realises they left Plunder behind and he is already captured.

  3. Cover of Sonic the Comic issue 48

    Issue 048 · 31 March 1995

    Sonic the Comic #48

    Plunder stands trial for crimes against Robotnik on live television: Trooper footage, a severed robot head as Exhibit G, a useless defence counsel, and a camera-hungry judge. Sentenced to hang until he is sorry — preferably dead — he is chained at Highview Corrective Centre, where frog warder Mister Gullets drenches him with something that is definitely not water. Cellmate Simpson the Cat moans that he knows a secret exit he cannot reach; luckily Plunder's hook hides a mechanical chain-cutter.

  4. Cover of Sonic the Comic issue 49

    Issue 049 · 14 April 1995

    Sonic the Comic #49

    Filch and the Sky Pirates, half-unsure which captain they are rescuing, storm Highview after reading the Mobian Times and flatten the Trooper guards. Inside, Plunder and Simpson are already free of their chains; Simpson plucks a floating question mark from the air to pick the lock, then paints a black hole that swallows Mister Gullets. They enter Billy Gulch's twenty-year escape tunnel while Plunder insists they will claim they fought dozens of guards.

  5. Cover of Sonic the Comic issue 50

    Issue 050 · 28 April 1995

    Sonic the Comic #50

    Plunder and Simpson crawl out through Gulch's tunnel just as Filch's rescue party blunders in the opposite direction; Simpson's cartoon lightbulb lights the dark, then he swallows it to hide. The two groups pass unseen; headlines trumpet Plunder's escape while his crew, bar ghostly Filch, are captured in the botched raid. Back in Mystic Cave Zone, Plunder decides a new crew beats sharing treasure with the old one.

  6. Cover of Sonic the Comic issue 91

    Issue 091 · 26 November 1996

    Sonic the Comic #91

    With a Star Post lashed to the wheel, Plunder's sky-ship means to raid every dimension from New Tek's docks - yet the press gang bags only one smart green stranger. Next morning Simpson finds the captive has scoffed all the Old Caribbean chocolate, so Plunder marches him to the plank. Hands bound, Proctor Speckle fumbles his Transforming Serum; from the shark-filled water rises Mister Fry, a shark still clamped in his jaws.

  7. Cover of Sonic the Comic issue 92

    Issue 092 · 10 December 1996

    Sonic the Comic #92

    Fry batters Plunder's crew flat, then tenderises a hauled-up shark for the grill and erupts if anyone calls him Speckle. Simpson steers him to the galley; crispy steaks calm the Captain, who apologises for the plank until Fry shrugs that it was Speckle who walked it. Leftover Transforming Serum, Filch discovers, went down shark throats - and the enlarged pack now rings the hull.

  8. Cover of Sonic the Comic issue 93

    Issue 093 · 24 December 1996

    Sonic the Comic #93

    A batch of Proctor Speckle's transformation serum turns three sharks into a boarding party for Captain Plunder's ship. Mister Fry drags Simpson and the main sail into the melee, then reverts at the worst possible moment, leaving Plunder to save Simpson with a hefty mallet. The sharks are subdued, but Speckle slips away with the crew's vintage rum truffles.

  9. Cover of Sonic the Comic issue 103

    Issue 103 · 30 April–13 May 1997

    Sonic the Comic #103

    In Scourge Bay, Captain Plunder tries to recruit with a forged treasure map whose ink is still wet. Simpson clobbers him instead of the recruit. Queen Zorabel interrupts to push her daughters onto his crew, and they find the Spice Maidens mid-brawl in The Pink Parrot.

  10. Cover of Sonic the Comic issue 104

    Issue 104 · 14–27 May 1997

    Sonic the Comic #104

    At Zorabel's mansion Plunder meets the five Spice Maidens and is floored by Pepper when he objects to women aboard. Zorabel forces the deal, then briefly agrees her daughters have no place among cut-throats — until Plunder and Filch find the Maidens and Zorabel herself already waiting on the ship as it rises skyward.

  11. Cover of Sonic the Comic issue 105

    Issue 105 · 28 May–10 June 1997

    Sonic the Comic #105

    Zorabel finally produces her map, which points not to the Akotek Treasure but to Krakiota the sea serpent at Skull Rock, who knows every secret on Mobius. The dread beast proves tiny enough to sit on Plunder's palm and will answer only three questions. Plunder wastes two; Zorabel asks whether he knows where the treasure is hidden, and he answers yes — then stops. Facing Simpson's cooking pot, Krakiota starts thinking about bending the rules.

  12. Cover of Sonic the Comic issue 106

    Issue 106 · 11–24 June 1997

    Sonic the Comic #106

    Krakiota has named the island; Plunder, Zorabel and the Spice Maidens reach King Akotek's tomb while Filch is sent back to the ship to research why Zorabel needs them at all. Simpson is kicked inside as a trap detector and emerges bristling with arrows — faking, as nobody cared either way. Plunder breaks the unbroken seal; Filch races up too late with the curse warning as the giant statue of Akotek comes alive.

  13. Cover of Sonic the Comic issue 107

    Issue 107 · 25 June–8 July 1997

    Sonic the Comic #107

    Akotek's statue curses whoever broke the seal — Plunder — with misfortune and calamity, then freezes again. Filch spells out Zorabel's trick: she brought him along precisely so he would take the curse. Loading the treasure, Plunder already trips, wears an urn and is buried under falling axes. Zorabel tows him in a rowboat for the ship's luck; he feels safe at last — until a vast white shark rises behind him.

  14. Cover of Sonic the Comic issue 108

    Issue 108 · 9–22 July 1997

    Sonic the Comic #108

    Plunder keeps the treasure after Zorabel's scheme fails, but the Curse of Akotek sends it tumbling from his ship. With the shields down, Captain Tiberius attacks the Sky Pirates.

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