Numbered issue 159 of 223
Sonic the Comic #159
30 June–13 July 1999
Issue overview
Repeated earthquakes destroy towns across Shanazar, and Sonic begins to suspect a cause beyond nature. His search leads to a huge desert rig in the lead story of an issue now largely devoted to the planet's adventures.
Original stories
Sonic the Hedgehog · The Rig #
Sonic discovers that alien Plax are drilling into Shanazar as tremors spread. He reverses their rig to destroy it, making enemies of its crew.
Script: Lew Stringer · Art: Mick McMahon · Letters: Elitta Fell
Reprinted stories
Tails · Zonerunner & The Flock, Part 1 #
Sonic and Tails raid a Chemical Plant factory, dive into a transport tube under fire from Sol Furic and Tess Tube, and are split when a bullet hits the controls. Tails lands before Nutzan Bolt as the robot boasts to Robotnik of flooding neighbouring Zones with Mega Mack; asking after Sonic earns Tails a rant about "the S-word" and a looming threat.
First appeared in issue 35.
Sonic the Hedgehog · Bubble Trouble #
Robotnik notes Sonic cannot swim and has Grimer twist air-bubble tricks against him. In Labyrinth Zone, spider Badniks dunk Sonic into shrinking ultra-tough plastic; he climbs free using Spiker shards only for a fire-breathing foe to melt the prison by accident. Spiders fall, and Robotnik is already drafting nastier traps.
First appeared in issue 83.
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- Photo Zone
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Issue details
- Issue number
- 159
- Date
- 30 June–13 July 1999
- Barcode
- 977096930405159
- Cover art
- Mick McMahon
- Cover price
- £1.30
- Editor
- Deborah Tate
- Designer
- Gary Knight
- Managing Editor
- Steve MacManus