Editing Sonic the Hedgehog (character) (section)

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Sonic's first comic appearance was in a promotional comic printed in ''[[Disney Adventures]]'' magazine (and also given away as a free pull-out with a copy of ''[[Mean Machines]]'' magazine), which established a backstory for the character involving the origin of his color and abilities and the transformation of kindly scientist Dr. Ovi Kintobor into the evil Dr. Ivo Robotnik. Numerous British publications, including "Sega handbook" ''Stay Sonic'' (1993), four novels published by [[Virgin Books]] (1993–1994) and the comic book ''[[Sonic the Comic]]'' (1993–2001), published by [[Fleetway Publications]]/[[Egmont Publishing]], used this premise as their basis.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ogrecave.com/interviews/jameswallis.shtml |title=Interviews: James Wallis |author=Allan Sugarbaker |date=September 24, 2001 |work=OgreCave.com |access-date=January 22, 2012 |quote=I teamed up with Carl Sargent and Marc Gascoigne to produce four more Sonic books, novels this time, for Virgin Publishing, under the pseudonym of 'Martin Adams'. |archive-date=September 26, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926013526/http://www.ogrecave.com/interviews/jameswallis.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref><!-- Cites the four novels from Virgin Books -->

The American comics published by [[Archie Comics]], ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' (1993–2017), ''[[Sonic X#Comic series|Sonic X]]'' (2005–2008), and ''[[Sonic Universe]]'' (2009–2017) are based on the settings established by earlier animated TV series, the ABC "[[Sonic the Hedgehog (TV series)|SatAM]]" cartoon, the ''[[Sonic X]]'' [[anime]], and an expansion to the series, respectively. The former series is currently the second longest-running [[Brand licensing|licensed]] comic series in the history of American comic books, second only to [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]]'s [[Conan (comics)|Conan]] series (first issue released in 1970).
In France two comic books named "Sonic Adventures" were published by Sirène in 1994. ''[[Guinness World Records]]'' recognized Sonic comic as the longest-running comic based on a game.<ref name="USAToday" /> Archie Comics also released a twelve part crossover with [[Mega Man]] beginning in 2013.<ref name="USAToday">{{cite news | url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2012-07-10/Sonic-the-Hedgehog-Mega-Man-crossover/56118040/1 | title=Sonic the Hedgehog, Mega Man team up for first time | newspaper=USA Today | access-date=July 18, 2013 | date=July 10, 2012 | archive-date=December 27, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227095920/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2012-07-10/Sonic-the-Hedgehog-Mega-Man-crossover/56118040/1 | url-status=live }}</ref> The Archie comics were later succeeded by a new [[Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW Publishing)|comic series]] by [[IDW Publishing]] in 2018, which is currently ongoing.

Sonic has also been featured in two different [[Sonic the Hedgehog (manga)|manga]]. One series was simply called ''Sonic the Hedgehog'', and featured a story about a normal hedgehog boy named Nicky who can change into Sonic.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.theghz.com/museum/1992.html | title=1992 | publisher=The Green Hill Zone | access-date=July 18, 2013 | archive-date=October 22, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022111623/http://www.theghz.com/museum/1992.html | url-status=live }}</ref> The other series was a compilation of short stories and was separated into two volumes, the first being called ''Dash and Spin'', and the other called ''Super Fast Sonic!!''.