This page is dedicated to the number of cameo appearances and references that the Sonic the Hedgehog series has made in comics and manga.
| Comic & publication date | Character(s)/Game(s) | Comic description | Sonic relation | Image |
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| Buster (11 March 1994) | Sonic | A British comic originally published by IPC Magazines Ltd under the company's comics division Fleetway Editions, then by Egmont UK Ltd under the same imprint until its closure in 2000. Lew Stringer made stories for the comic, particularly the Tom Thug comics. | For the Spring Carnival, Tom enters in a Sonic the Hedgehog costume that his mother made, though less enthusiastic about the quality of it. | 
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| Buster (22 December 1995) | Sonic | In Christmas with Tom Thug, one of the guests at the Christmas costume party is dressed as Sonic. | 
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| Buster (3 June 1995) | Sonic the Comic | As Tom lazes about at home, an issue of Sonic the Comic is seen on his floor. | 
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| The Dandy issues #3578 (21 April 2012) to #3583 (26 May 2012) | Sonic | A British comic published by DC Thomson that ran from 1937 to 2012. | There is a short comic strip that spoofs the Sonic the Hedgehog series, known as Chronic the Hedgehog. |   |
| Fighters Mega Books Mix Ultimate Guide (28 March 1997) | Bean Bark |
A Japanese guidebook for the game, Fighters Megamix. | Bean and Bark appear in a comic segment of this guidebook. |  
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| NiGHTS into Dreams... #3 (1998) | Sonic Knuckles |
An Archie Comics published miniseries series based on NiGHTS into Dreams... | In Elliot's room, posters of Sonic and Knuckles can be seen on the wall. | 
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| Green Goblin (1995) | Sonic | A miniseries focusing on the new heroic Green Goblin. | The Green Goblin and his friend go to a video game convention filled with statues and costumes resembling video game characters and cartoon characters, including a statue of a brown-furred, anthropomorphic animal who is an obvious parody of Sonic. | 
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| Archie & Friends: A Halloween Tale (1998) | Sonic Knuckles Dr. Robotnik SWATbots Tails (mentioned) |
8 1/2 x 5 1/2 promotional giveaway starring the Archie crew and others from the same publishing company. | Sabrina the Teenage Witch is picking up Sonic comics for her cat, Salem. She accidentally casts a spell which puts her in the comic, where she meets Sonic and Knuckles, who are in the middle of a battle with Dr. Robotnik. She transports herself out of there, but accidentally takes Sonic and Knuckles back to her world with her. She takes them to a costume party, where characters from other Archie comics are celebrating Halloween. Archie's friend, Jughead, wears a Robotnik costume at the party. Thinking he is the real Robotnik, Sonic and Knuckles beat up Jughead. | 
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| Sabrina the Teenage Witch #28 | Sonic Sally Nicole |
A popular Archie Comics published series about a teenage witch growing up in a normal world. | A full cross-over storyline between Sonic and Sabrina. Enchantra wants to get revenge on Sabrina, so she gazes into alternate realities and finds Sonic. Enchantra teleports Sonic to her world through a supernatural portal and takes control of him. Sonic then heads to Sabrina's house where Salem and Sabrina are. Sally and Nicole have also arrived in their world through the portal, and all of them are about to be attacked by a possessed Sonic. After Sabrina #28, the story continues into Sonic Super Special #10. | 
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| Scott Pilgrim series | Sonic & Knuckles Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Animal friends Little Planet |
A popular comic book by Oni Press about a 23-year-old who must defeat all seven of his girlfriend's evil exes. | In Volume 1, Scott can be seen wearing a shirt with the Sonic & Knuckles logo on it. |  |
| In Volume 2, in a flashback, Scott can be seen playing Sonic & Knuckles. The same flashback shows that Scott's band during high school was actually called Sonic & Knuckles. Later on in the book, Scott phones up Wallace, his gay room-mate, to ask if he knows the cheat code for Sonic the Hedgehog 3. | ||||
| In Volume 3, Ramona mentions she went to The University of Carolina in the Sky, where she met and dated Roxie. The University looks similar to the Little Planet from Sonic the Hedgehog CD as it is chained to a mountain. | ||||
| The splash page of Volume 4 is based on the title screen of Sonic the Hedgehog 2, with Scott and Ramona replacing Sonic and Tails. | ||||
| After Scott defeats Roxie (Ramona's fourth evil ex-boyfriend), she explodes into a cascade of small woodland creatures. | ||||
| Bittersweet Candy Bowl volume 1 | Sonic Sonic Riders Spin Dash "Unknown from M.E." Piko Piko Hammer Giant Ring Sonic and the Secret Rings Bonus Stage |
A "dramedy" by Veronica Vera about five friends going through the emotional struggles of High School. | In chapter 2, after Lucy kicked Yashy off her for riding her like a horse, Mike says that they can play "Sonic Ride You", a clear mispronunciation of "Sonic Riders." On the following page, Chirpy imagines Sonic giving Mike a piggyback ride. At the start of chapter 10, Yashy tries to follow Lucy and Mike to the movies, saying "here I come! Ruffer den duh rest offem," which are the first lines of Knuckles' theme from Sonic Adventure, "Unknown from M.E.." In chapter 27, Yashy, Chirpy and Blur are playing Pokémon in real-life, with Lily pretending to be Shaymin and rocks acting as Master Balls. After being pelted with rocks, she loses her temper and spin dashes into them (with a line above her that says "lol spin dash"), but she only hits Blur. In chapter 36, David easily passes up Paulo during swim class; while Paulo asks "WHERE'D YOU COME FROM, YOU RAT!!" David responds, "I'm not a rat, I'm a hedgehog!" referencing Erazor Djinn from Sonic and the Secret Rings, who always refers to Sonic as a rat, but quickly wonders where he got that line from. On the two pages signifying the reader is entering the "Bonus Content" section, the "Stage" next to "Bonus" is crossed out and replaced with "Content." On the same pages, Lucy is holding Amy's Piko Piko Hammer and David is jumping into a Giant Ring. |    
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| Oh My Goddess! volume 7 | Sonic | A manga series by Kodansha and Dark Horse Comics about the adventures of college sophmore Keiichi Morisato and the goddesses that move in with him; Belldandy, Urd and Skuld. | After a first class demon named Marller escapes from her seal, she possesses the body of Keiichi's sister, Megumi. When the Third Class Earth Spirit, (a deity living with Megumi in secrecy) realizes this, he proceeds to attack but is defeated and is turned into a doll, resembling Sonic the Hedgehog. Later on, the Third Class Earth Spirit manages to head-butt Marller yelling "Super-Sonic Attack!" Eventually Megumi regains control of her body and finds the Sonic doll. She decides to keep it thinking that it was cute (still not knowing that it was the Third Class Earth Spirit). |  
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| Clamp School Detectives volume 3 | Sonic Amy Metal Sonic Sonic the Hedgehog CD |
A manga series by Mystery DX about the adventures of the Elementary School Student Board from Clamp School in their attempt to better the lives of the female population of Clamp School by forming a detective agency. | In the omake at the end of Volume 3, the authors of Clamp, personified as chibi characters, talk about their favourite consoles and games mentioning that they have a Sega Mega Drive and a Sega CD with Puyo Puyo and Sonic CD, in some of the panels many falling Puyos can be seen, Sonic appears in one panel and in another one he appears with Amy and Metal Sonic, all of them drawn in humanized forms. |  
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| Plants vs. Zombies #7 | Chopper Sonic Sonic's shoes |
A comic series by Dark Horse Comics about the ongoing fight between plants and zombies. | In this issue, one zombie rides a car named the Black Tornado which resembles a Chopper. Mr. Stubbins, a hedgehog zombie, rides another car that is miniature in stature and resembles Sonic's shoes. The zombie hedgehog itself is a reference to Sonic. |  
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| Simpsons Comics #110 | Sonic | A comic book series based on the popular TV show, The Simpsons, published by Bongo Comics Group. | At the end of the story "Bad News Bearer", Ned Flanders dreams he and the Simpson family as video game characters. Lisa portrayed Sonic. |   |
| Turma da Mônica series | Sonic | A popular Brazilian comics series by Panini Comics, known in English versions as Monica's Gang or Monica and Friends. | In issue 24 of the spin-off series Clássicos do Cinema, Sonic appears alongside several other blue characters from other cartoons, comics and video games as one of the inhabitants of the planet Pandemora. In issue 32 of the same comic, Sonic along with several other characters from video games appear in a special room known as "The Nerd's Paradise". | 
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| Luluzinha Teen e sua Turma | Sonic | A manga-styled spin-off of Little Lulu comics, showing the protagonists as teenagers, and published by Ediouro. | In issue 4, one of the players who appear to help Aninha / Annie against Vergerus is using a avatar very similar to a fusion between Sonic and Mega Man. | 
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| Hyperdimension Neptunia: Megami Tsuushin (Volume #1) | Sonic | The first manga in the Neptunia series by Enterbrain. It takes place in a different continuity where every character introduced in the series exist. | In chapter 4, one of ingredients that are need for Gust's "Totori" alchemy method is a hedgehog quill. IF and Compa head to a bar at night where Compa, wearing a hedgehog mask, seduces a drunken hedgehog that resembles Sonic. When the hedgehog tries to charge to Compa, IF knocks the hedgehog and plucks one of his quills. | 
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| Hyperdimension Neptunia: Megami Tsuushin (Volume #3) | Sonic Spring Loop Sega 32X Sega Mega Drive Sega CD Blue Sphere |
The third volume of the first manga in the Neptunia series by Enterbrain. | In chapter 24, Neptune and Nepgear joins the newly-awakened goddess, Plutia, on their way to a quest to protect the Mega Dragon from being poached by mysterious poachers in Ancient Planeptune. As the trio tries to search for the dragon, Plutia accidentally steps and slips on Opa Opa, causing her to roll sideways into a curved tunnel which leads to loop and a spring that ejects Plutia onto a tree. After saving the goddess on the tree, the trio continues their search and encountered various Sega characters, including NiGHTS which was called as a "Mysterious Unidentified Flying Creature", along the way. They soon encountered a small gap with a broken bridge, which they were able to cross using the "Mega Dragon Tower" formation, which has the Sega Mega Drive and its add-ons and a lock-on cartridge displayed on the background. As they continued searching, one of the places they saw is a nest of "blue sphere-hogs." |  
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| Hyperdimension Neptunia: Megami Tsuushin (Volume #4) | Sonic Chaos Emeralds |
The fourth volume of the first manga in the Neptunia series by Enterbrain. | In both chapter 29 and 30, the Planeptune sisters and the recently awakened goddesses, Plutia and Peashy, traveled back in time to know the reason on why are they in cold sleep for many years. After arriving, they met up with a younger IF and Compa, who are both securing back to the basilicom one of the seven life gems that contain a mysterious power called "Kabosu Emeralds", which is a pun on a Japanese citrus fruit and on the pronounction of the word "chaos" in Japanese. After a while, the group met up with the past version of Plutia, who explains that the emeralds' power are used to seal a demon lord. While explaining, some of the blue sphere-hogs, along with other animal-like creatures, including one that resembles NiGHTS can be seen.
When past Plutia prepares to head to the Segami Highlands, along with past Peashy, she unties her braid which reveals that some of her hair forms three quill-shaped strands that are similar to Sonic's quills. Plutia runs on the chain that connects the land to the Segami Highland at "supersonic speeds" as Neptune describes. |
 
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| The One I Love | Sonic | A romantic, slice-of-life shōjo (targeted towards girls) manga by Clamp, an all-female, manga artist team consisting of Satsuki Igarashi, Mokona, Tsubaki Nekoi, and Nanase Ohkawa. Published by Kadokawa Shoten, it appeared as a monthly serial in the Japanese manga magazine, Monthly Young Rose from December 1993 to June 1995. | Sonic appears as a plush toy in SCENE 6 – Together (pages 59-65). | 
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| Off the Mark | Sonic | A comic panel created by Mark Parisi and published by Andrews McMeel Syndication which began in September 1987 and now appears in 100 newspapers. It also appears on greeting cards, in magazines, on T-shirts and more. | Sonic appears alongside other cartoon characters from various other books and comics in this strip. His sign reads "Case #6: Too Much Speed". | 
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| Uncle from Another World | Sonic the Hedgehog series Sega |
A manga by Hotondoshindeiru about Takafumi's uncle who fell into a coma for seventeen years. When he awoke, Takafumi learns that his uncle had an isekai adventure in another fantasy world. | Given Takafumi's uncle grew up in the 90s before his coma, he still loves video games, especially Sega and Sonic the Hedgehog. | 
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| Gravity Falls: Lost Legends | Green Hill Zone | A graphic novel by Disney Press of a collection of four new stories for Gravity Falls. | In the story "Don't Dimension It", Mabel ends up lost in the multiverse. As she's falling through different dimensions, one of them is Green Hill Zone-themed. | 
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| Spider-Woman Volume 5 #5 (4 March 2015) | Sonic | The fifth comic series by Marvel centering on Spider-Woman. | While chasing the supervillain, Porcupine, Spider-Woman makes a wisecrack that hedgehogs are only super-fast in video games, referencing Sonic. | 
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| Les Légendaires Parodia #1 (20 April 2016) | Sonic | A parodia of a french comics series named Les Légendaires. | To show his speed, Gryf doubles the hero Sonic. | 
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| The Green Lantern Annual Volume 1 #1 (7 September 2019) | Sonic | The first annual issue for the Green Lantern series by DC Comics. | A Green Lantern who resembles Sonic is introduced in this annual. | 
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| M.O.D.O.K. Head Games #3 (17 February 2021) | Spin Dash | A four-issue miniseries focusing on M.O.D.O.K. | While fighting Gwenpool, M.O.D.O.K. grows spikes all over his body, then curls into a ball and rolls towards Gwenpool, mimicking Sonic's Spin Dash. | 
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| My Hero Academia | Sonic | A manga written and illustrated by Kohei Horikoshi and published in Weekly Shonen Jump. | There is a hero from Gang Orca's hero agency who resembles Sonic. | 
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| Legends of the Dark Knight (2021) | Casinopolis | The second re-launch of the Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight anthology series by DC. | In issue #4, the entrance to The Riddler's hideout is identical to the entrance to Casinopolis from Sonic Adventure. | 
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| The Beano no. 4111 (10 November 2021) | Sonic | British anthology comic magazine by DC Thomson. Worlds longest-running comic that has been issued weekly since 1938. | In this issue, Bananaman opens up a portal to the Video Game World where Phonics the Porcupine shows up. | 
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| The Beano no. 4143 (9 July 2022) | Egg Mobile | In the story with Dangerous Dan, the Prefect's mech suit resembles the Egg Mobile. | 
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| Bite-Sized Archie #93 (16 September 2022) | Sonic Frontiers | An online webcomic series published by Archie Comics. | A videogame poster can be seen on Jughead's wall reading "Cosmo Frontiers", a parody of Sonic Frontiers starring the character "Cosmo" from Cosmo the Mighty Martian. Additionally, the artwork on the poster is based on the US cover artwork for the aforenoted game. |  |
