Knuckles the Echidna (comics)

Knuckles the Echidna
Sonic's Friendly Nemesis: Knuckles No. 1 (July 1996). This three-issue miniseries was followed by Knuckles' ongoing book in 1997. Art by Patrick Spaziante.
Publication information
PublisherArchie Comics
ScheduleMonthly
Publication dateApril 3, 1997 - February 18, 2000
No. of issues32
Main character(s)Knuckles the Echidna
Creative team
Written by
Artist(s)
  • Manny Galan
  • Patrick Spaziante
  • Chris Allan
  • Art Mawhinney
Ken Penders

Knuckles the Echidna, originally published as Knuckles: The Dark Legion, is an action-adventure comic book series published by Archie Comics. The series starred Knuckles the Echidna, a main character from Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series of video games. The book was a spin-off of Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog, with both series sharing narrative continuity. The series served as a successor to Sonic's Friendly Nemesis: Knuckles, a three-issue limited series from 1996. Knuckles was almost exclusively written by Ken Penders, the former lead writer of Sonic.

Running from 1997 to 2000, the series had 32 issues in total. The first 21 issues were eventually reprinted alongside the Sonic's Friendly Nemesis miniseries in the Knuckles the Echidna Archives series of graphic novels, which ran from 2011 to 2013. The series consisted of four volumes, with two more left unreleased after numerous delays.[1][dead link]

Focusing on Knuckles' exploits of fighting evil and seeking answers about his past, the series was notable for heavily expanding upon the Sonic series' fictionalized echidna race's history. After the series' cancellation, its storyline was continued through supporting stories in Sonic the Hedgehog, sometimes even tying in with the main stories. Knuckles wouldn't get a leading role in comics again until 2009 with the Sonic Universe anthology comic series.

By 2013, all characters, locations and other elements introduced in Knuckles had been erased from Archie's Sonic books through a continuity reboot.

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