Issue 13

Issue 13 is the thirteenth edition of Sonic the Comic, the UK's official SEGA comic. Released on the 13th November 1993, the issue contains four original stories, three of them new, as well as several features and a free gift of a STC Belt Clip.

Contents[]

Control Zone
Sonic the Hedgehog - Double Trouble
Review Zone (Special)
Ecco the Dolphin - Ecco the Dolphin: Part 1
News Zone
The Legend of the Golden Axe - Plague of Serpents: Part 1
Q Zone
Decap Attack - Starring Chuck D. Head!: Part 4
Speedlines
Next Issue

Strips[]

Sonic the Hedgehog[]

Double Trouble is a complete story by Mark Millar, Mike Hadley and Ellie de Ville. Tails is innoncently playing football in the Emerald Hill Zone when he discovers Sonic trapped in a monitor. Letting him out, he soon realises that this Sonic is an evil double, an Extra Life, who plans on causing trouble. By destroying the Emerald Hill folk hideout, the double almost gets the real Sonic exiled until the two come to blows and the treachery is revealed. Tails saves the day by sucking the threat back into the monitor and Sonic kicks it out to space.

Ecco the Dolphin[]

Ecco the Dolphin is a 6-part story, with writing and lettering by Woodrow Phoenix and art (in the first two parts) by Chris Webster. After an enormous tornado hits the seas of Planet Earth, lone dolphin Ecco finds himself swimming the oceans to find his friends. The first thing he finds is an angry group of sharks and only manages to defeat them with help from an orca, who leads Ecco to a waiting glyph in the sea. The jewel tells Ecco that his answers lie in the past and is transported there.

The Legend of the Golden Axe[]

Plague of Serpents is a 6-part story, the second and final one in the Golden Axe series. Written by Mark Eyles, drawn by Mike White and lettered by de Ville, the three heroes Ax-Battler, Tyris-Flare and Gilius-Thunderhead are on their way to Yuria to deliver the Golden Axe back to its home. During the journey, they decide to stop at the dwarf kingdom of Rockguard, but the presence of snakes alerts them to trouble. Inside, the population is at war and the heroes find themselves in trouble - Ax is hypnotised and Tyris is wounded, about to be killed...

Decap Attack[]

Starring Chuck D. Head! is a 6-part story by Nigel Kitching and Steve Potter. Angry that Professor Frank N. Stein is taking too long with his army of the undead, Max D. Cap sends minions Bullhead and Croc down to the dungeons to find Chuck D. Head so that he can be cloned. The hapless creation is having trouble making his way to the top of Castle Frank N. Stein and manages to get into a scrap with the demons. He handily found a bomb earlier, but a mix-up between it and Head leads to Chuck getting himself blown up and another heart down.

Features[]

This issue's Control Zone, hosted by Megadroid, welcomes new Boomers to the comic and offers them this issue's free gift. A competition is featured that asks readers to say what they could do with their new belt clip - the wackier the better! There's also excitement for the two new stories and another competition to win toys and games. There's so much that regular features have had to be shortened for this issue. Megadroid informs readers that he will be putting the price of STC up to £1.10 in future issues, but compensates this by teasing the first Sonic the Poster Mag. The Sega Charts have no new leaders, with Batman Returns still leading the Mega-CD chart and Mortal Kombat all others.

There is only one game featured in this issue's Review Zone, with an unknown reviewer awarding Sonic Spinball for the Mega Drive 80%. The News Zone has its usual two pages, covering Robocop vs Terminator, Winter Olympics, two new controllers and confirmation that Sega are still supporting their 8-bit systems with a slew of new games. Short Bursts covers several new games from Sony (stating that they have moved into the game's market, an ominous foreshadowing), new video game adaptations heading to the movies and that Sonic is now more popular than Mario and Mickey Mouse.

The Q Zone this week is a normal one, with David Gibbon giving tips on Lemmings (MS), Streets of Rage (GG), Mortal Kombat, Cyborg Justice and James Pond: Robocod (all MD). The Game Genie update also helps with Jungle Strike, Shinobi III and Jurassic Park. Megadroid also pops in to announce a Hume Error, dispelling confusion about the price of the Mega Drive/Mega-CD II combo (actually £379.98 rather than £249.99).

Finally, Speedlines sees Megadroid answer letters about blood in the Shinobi series, Sonic's smelly feet, the shortest letter ever (minus the P.S.), an abusive (and criminal) father throwing an STC out of the car window), the heroes wearing gloves, Robotnik's first name (Ivo) and the loss of somebody's finger. All letters and pictures featured won the creators a Tomy Sonic the Hedgehog Water Fun Game, although the one pictured looks completely different to the usual prize.