The series was based on Sega’s video game franchise as well as DiC Entertainment‘s 1993 Italian-American animated series of the same name. After initially beginning with a four issue miniseries between 1992 and 1993, the first full-length issue of the comic was published in July 1993. The series ran for 290 issues for over 20 years, earning a place in the 2008 Guinness World Records for being the “longest-running comic series based on a video game“,[1] and it became the longest-running franchise-based comic series in 2015, surpassing Marvel Comics‘ Conan the Barbarian (which ran for 275 issues) before it was confirmed cancelled in July 2017 (although the comics ceased release in January of that year), following Sega and Archie Comics’ decision to discontinue their business relationship.[2] The series features a cast of hundreds of characters, consisting of those derived from the Sonic games and those original to the comics, with stories focused on a crime-fighting organization called the Freedom Fighters, led by Sonic, as they face off against series antagonist Doctor Eggman alongside a variety of other villains.
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