Archie Sonic in Germany

Panini's Sonic the Hedgehog is a series of comic books and comic magazines featuring issues of Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog comic series translated into German. The publications are handled by Panini Comics, a part of long-running European publisher Panini Group, in cooporation with FreemantleMedia. Distribution began with a magazine series titled "Sonic Das Comic Magazin" in July 2012, printing issues from the Sonic Universe series, and was later replaced by a standard comic series simply titled "Sonic the Hedgehog" in March 2013, printing issues of the main series beginning from the Genesis saga. The publication releases bi-monthly, only in Germany and other German-speaking territories.

Puplication Dates and Featured Issues

 * Sonic the Hedgehog (comic)
 * Issue 1 (20 March, 2013) - issues 226 and 227 of Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Issue 2 (15 May, 2013) - issues 228 and 229 of Sonic the Hedgehog.
 * Issue 3 (17 July, 2013) - issue 230 of Sonic the Hedgehog.
 * Sonic Das Comic Magazin:
 * Issue 1 (18 July, 2012) - issues 1 and 2 of Sonic Universe.
 * Issue 2 (19 September, 2012) - issues 3 and 4 of Sonic Universe.
 * Issue 3 (21 November, 2012) - issues 5 and 6 of Sonic Universe.
 * Issue 4 (16 January, 2013) - issues 7 and 8 of Sonic Universe.

Background Information

 * Each issue uses cover art from the original English editions, usually one that corresponds to an issue that's in the book. The only issue to not use existing Archie cover art was the first issue of the Magazine, which simply reused official Sega artwork of Sonic and Shadow.
 * Each issue of "Das Comic Magazin" came with a free gift (usually a cheap plastic toy) attatched to the front cover with tape. This is a common practice with childrens magazines in most European territories.

Differences to the English editions

 * The boxes containing the editors footnotes are retained, however any notes that refer to issues that have not been printed in German simply replace the text with a comment by Panini's editor on whatever is being said. For example, in the footnote attatched to Shadows statement that he and Metal Sonic had battled across 2 different universes in SU#1, the instruction to check out StH#196 and SX#40 is replaced by a simple remark at how long they'de been battling for.