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Also the Sonic the Comics also confuse things a sit shows Knuckles the guardian of all the Chaos Emeralds. At one point all the emeralds were scattered but when Sonic collected them, Knuckles agreed to take them from Sonic given they were his echidnan birth right and guardian responsabilities.

As for the Archie Sonic comics, I don't really know much about Archie Echidna's other than the fact they were very high tech for an ancient race beyond spiked punch-gloves and sharp stones on sticks. I think however Mobius had more than seven Chaos Emeralds and plenty scattered across the planet.

(I am a Sonic boffin but know little on the Archie Comics)