Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 63 is the sixty-third issue of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series published by Archie Comics.
Official solicitation[]
Icon II - Cult Of Personality[]
- When Sonic and Tails were forced to land in the force-field covered city of Sand Blast City, they had no idea what they had gotten into. Having to find a way to escape becomes paramount as the Sand Blast Freedom Fighters decide they are going to stay there... forever! Can our freedom-fighting duo escape Sand Blast City... especially when Sonic seems to be enjoying his stay here? Also witness the villains of the Devil's Gulag challenge the prison used to hold them.
Tales Of The Freedom Fighters - On His Majesty's Secret Service - Part III[]
- Training begins for the recruits and Princess Sally wants some answers as to why she's being left out of the loop. And she's not going to get them either... on the orders of King Acorn himself. The mystery deepens.
Featured stories[]
Icon II - Cult Of Personality[]
- Writer: Karl Bollers
- Pencils: Steven Butler
- Inks: Pam Eklund
- Colors: Ken Penders
- Letters: Jeff Powell
- Editor: Justin Gabrie
- Managing Editor: Victor Gorelick
- Editor-in-Chief: Richard Goldwater
Synopsis[]
The Devil's Gulag is thrown into chaos as the Fearsome Foursome, Nack, Drago Wolf and Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg wreak havoc while Snively watches, dumbfounded. Meanwhile, in Sand Blast City, Sonic is being treated like royalty by the citizens, oblivious to Tails' concerns about their stay in the city having delayed their pursuit of Ixis Naugus. Tails asks Sonic's servants to leave the room while they have a chat and they end up arguing about whether or not they should leave. Just outside the room, Jack Rabbit is pleased to hear that Sonic does not want to leave, intent on keeping him around for the rest of his life. Meanwhile, Snively is surprised when the mobian criminals at the Gulag decide that he should be their leader, believing that he was responsible for their escape.
That night, Sonic wakes Tails, revealing that he is aware that the Sand-Blasters want to keep him in the city. He explains that he had to play along to lull them into false security. As they attempt to sneak out, Jack and several of his associates surprise them and claim that there is no way out of the town while their Dome Force Field is up. Sonic tells Tails to go get the Winged Victory ready while he finds a way to deactivate the force field. Tails finds the plane covered in a tarp and begins to pick it up when a group of citizens aim their guns at him and demand that he drops it. Tails does so, covering his would-be attackers in the tarp.
Sonic runs around the city, unable to find the controls for the force field, when he realizes that it has been in his face all along—literally. Since the Sand-Blasters love Sonic and the force field is the one thing keeping the city safe from the wild robians of the Great Desert, Sonic realizes that the force field controls must be located inside the giant Sonic statue in the center of the city. Sonic spins through the statue, destroying it and deactivating the force field.
Jack is overcome with anger and vows to destroy Sonic for what he has done when the robians appear, waging war on the city. Sonic runs through the city, evading the Sand-Blasters and robians, until Tails swoops on the Winged Victory and takes him aboard. Sonic and Tails watch Sand Blast City come under siege as they fly away while Snively and his criminal cohorts escape the Devil's Gulag and head for Robotropolis.
Appearances[]
Characters:
- Bernadette Hedgehog (mentioned)
- Drago Wolf
- Fearsome Foursome
- Freedom Fighters
- Knothole Freedom Fighters
- Bunnie Rabbot (mentioned)
- Dulcy the Dragon (mentioned)
- Miles "Tails" Prower
- Rotor Walrus (mentioned)
- Sally Acorn (mentioned)
- Sir Charles Hedgehog (mentioned)
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Sand-Blasters
- Knothole Freedom Fighters
- Jules Hedgehog (mentioned)
- Nack the Weasel
- Rosie Woodchuck (mentioned)
- Royal Secret Service
- Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg
- Snively Robotnik
Locations:
- Prime Zone
- Mobius
- Northamer
- Devil's Gulag
- Great Desert
- Knothole Village (mentioned)
- Mobotropolis (mentioned)
- Northamer
- Mobius
Races and species:
Items:
Vehicles:
Misc.:
- Opti-Burst
- Propeller Flying
- Roboticization
- Sonic Spin
- Sonic Swirl (flashback)
Continuity[]
- Tails remembers him and Sonic crash-landing in Sand Blast City after the Winged Victory lost control, and they met the Sand-Blasters who invited them into the city, and all was going well until Sonic decided to put him and Tails' mission to look for Ixis Naugus on hold for a few weeks, in Sonic the Hedgehog #62, "Icon".
- Sonic remembers Jack telling him that the big statue of Sonic was their key to their force field protecting the city in the same prior issue.
Trivia[]
- Sonic's arms are incorrectly colored blue seven times throughout this story.
Tales Of The Freedom Fighters: Geoffrey St. John "On His Majesty's Secret Service - Part Three"[]
- Writer, Inks & Colors: Ken Penders
- Pencils: Art Mawhinney
- Letters: Jeff Powell
- Editor: Justin Gabrie
Synopsis[]
In Mobotropolis, an irate Sally goes looking for Geoffrey St. John, only to be stopped at the door to the armory by Lieutenant Smiley. He tells her that St. John isn't inside, but Sally asks to look for herself. Smiley tells her that she's unauthorized to enter the room. Outraged by this insubordination, she asks him where she can find Geoffrey.
The new Royal Secret Service members are training with their commander, Geoffrey St. John. Heavy is tested first, hacking into enemy hardware and pretending to be one of Robotnik's lackeys. Valdez then stealthily removes all of the facility's sensors. Faced with having to descend a steep elevator shaft, Wombat Stu pulls out a rope and uses it to help the team rappel down. Valdez knocks out the SWATbot they find down below, but the team is at a loss for how they'll take it back to their base of operations. Hershey finds a cart nearby, loads the SWATbot on it, and suggests they take the elevator back to the surface.
As the team heads back, they're stopped by Princess Sally. The princess demands answers, but Geoffrey explains that he can't reveal his objectives because he's been getting orders from her superior: King Acorn. Sally begins to ask why her father would operate above her, but Geoffrey tells her that she'll have to take that up with him. Geoffrey proudly leads his team back to base while a frustrated Sally is determined to get to the bottom of the situation.
Appearances[]
Characters:
- Badnik Horde
- Dr. Ivo Robotnik (mentioned)
- Maximillian Acorn (mentioned)
- Royal Secret Service
- Sally Acorn
Locations:
Races and species:
- Mobian
- Overlander (mentioned)
Items:
Key Events[]
- Sonic and Tails escape imprisonment in Sand Blast City.
- The escaped Devil's Gulag prisoners appoint Snively as their leader.
- Sally learns that the Secret Service has been assembled on her father's orders for a classified mission.
Other features[]
- Find Your Name In Print Page
- Sonic Fan-Art
- "The 'Pro Art' Coloring Page" pin-up: A pin-up page of Dr. Ivo Robotnik. Presented in black-and-white as a coloring page. Pencils by Nelson Ribeiro, inks by Jim Amash.
- Sonic-Grams
Quotes[]
- Security System: INTRUDER -- HALT! IDENTIFY -- YOURSELF-AND-STATE-YOUR-BUSINESS!
- Heavy: I have returned with important information for Doctor Robotnik!
- Security System: GOOD-ENOUGH-FOR-GOVERNMENT-WORK! YOU-MAY-ENTER!
Gallery[]
Preview pages[]
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External links[]
- Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 63 at Mobius Encyclopaedia, the Archie Sonic wiki.
- Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 63 at Sonic Retro
