Numbered issue 166 of 223
Sonic the Comic #166
6–19 October 1999
Issue overview
Sonic and Amy arrive in an Earth setting where a Native American tribe faces an armed attack. Earth Spirits turns their unexpected appearance into an intervention in a conflict far removed from Shanazar.
Original stories
Sonic the Hedgehog · Earth Spirits #
Sonic and Amy arrive in the middle of a frontier conflict and are mistaken for spirits by a tribe whose shaman has been calling for supernatural help. The pair are captured after Sonic's intervention, yet a sudden wind drives the attacking cowboys away while they remain tied up, leaving the tribe convinced that the spirits answered. The grateful villagers free the heroes and raise a totem showing Sonic and Amy, without ever settling whether Sonic somehow caused the second rescue.
Script: Lew Stringer · Art: Mick McMahon · Letters: Elitta Fell
Reprinted stories
Knuckles · The Ghost Ship, Part 1 #
Captain Plunder's Sky Pirates chase the Ghost Ship of Tantaragor through a storm until lightning drops their mast and they plunge toward the Floating Island. Below, Knuckles asks Porker to mend the Emerald Chamber, but ancient tech defeats the pig - and a young bear reports a ship down east of the village. Assuming Robotnik, Knuckles races over and finds Plunder instead.
First appeared in issue 74.
Tails in · Zonerunner & The Big Freeze, Part 3 #
Tails talks Sab out of executing a repentant Sol; she explains the Flock survived via a secret tunnel while she programmed the floater drone, the blast flinging her after them. On the frozen surface Nutzan Bolt now rules an ice castle in a body of living ice that shrugs off Sab and Sol's bullets and pins Tails to the wall. Revenge, it seems, is finally within the tin tyrant's grasp.
First appeared in issue 50.
Sonic the Hedgehog · Disaster! Part 2 #
Spikebonkers march Sonic before Robotnik on Death Egg II while Grimer primes a disintegrator aimed at Emerald Hill. Knuckles steers the whole Floating Island in and opens fire; amid the chaos Sonic wrenches the Master Emerald from the power core. A second Island blast shatters a viewport and flings Sonic, the gem and pursuing EggRobos into freefall toward Mobius.
First appeared in issue 52.
Magazine features
- Graphic Zone
Characters
Issue details
- Issue number
- 166
- Date
- 6–19 October 1999
- Barcode
- 977096930405166
- Cover art
- Mick McMahon
- Cover price
- £1.30
- Editor
- Deborah Tate
- Designer
- Gary Knight
- Managing Editor
- Steve MacManus