Numbered issue 163 of 223
Sonic the Comic #163
25 August–7 September 1999
Issue overview
Mercenaries tracking Sonic meet an elderly stranger who is far more dangerous than she appears. Medusa turns the Shanazar pursuit into a clash with one of the world's supernatural figures.
Original stories
Sonic the Hedgehog · Medusa #
The bounty hunters of Death-Trap finally locate Sonic, only for their encounter with the disguised Medusa to leave Prank and Totem Billy as stone and Kalus reduced to sand. Medusa attacks a nearby city, and Amy's advice about defeating her reflection proves useless when a shield fails to work. Sonic and Amy instead use Kalus's sand cloud to blind Medusa, allowing them to knock her out.
Script: Lew Stringer · Art: Mick McMahon · Letters: Elitta Fell
Reprinted stories
Tails · Hero of the Beach #
Grimer sends Caterkiller Badniks under a busy beach. Tails defeats them and turns a Chemical Plant mess back on Robotnik.
First appeared in issue 111.
Captain Plunder · Shanghaied, Part 1 #
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.
First appeared in issue 91.
Sonic the Hedgehog · Count Down to Disaster, Part 1 #
Death Egg II's repairs are finished; Robotnik only needs the Master Emerald's infinite energy and orders his newest Metallix to steal it, destroying Knuckles if he interferes. Sonic and Knuckles emerge via tunnels into Lava Reef's magma chamber directly beneath the Launch Base volcano where the Death Egg sits. EggRobos under Robotnik's eye-cameras swarm them until Knuckles floods the chamber with lava; seized by dread, he races for Hidden Palace.
First appeared in issue 49.
Magazine features
- Graphic Zone
Characters
Issue details
- Issue number
- 163
- Date
- 25 August–7 September 1999
- Barcode
- 977096930405163
- Cover art
- Mick McMahon
- Cover price
- £1.30
- Editor
- Deborah Tate
- Designer
- Gary Knight
- Managing Editor
- Steve MacManus