January 1994
"The Spin Doctor" is up first. We get our first video game adaptation, and I would never have guessed that it would be for Sonic Spinball. It follows through the first three levels (with an appearance by the creepy Robotnik scorpion. We don't get The Showdown other than a mimic of getting booted out of the volcano fortress (which is just Robotnik kicking him out instead of those slingshot socks breaking the glass in the game). That's it.
MInistory of a reader mail praising Antoine, but Sonic finds out that Antoine himself is writing it. Clever.
"Sonic's Christmas Carol" is next, and it's a reenactment of A Christmas Carol. Robotnik is Scrooge, Sonic is all three Ghosts, and Rotor apparently works for Robotnik. Basically the future is Robotnik thinks he has the battle won but a bomb he sent Rotor got returned to him after many years which end up killing him. Turns out it's all a dream, we get a Happy Holidays from Sonic, and that it. Definitely a non-canon story, but this is the first issue that Rotor is actually named Rotor, so that's what we get from here on out.
Definitely not an important issue. The Spinball tie-in was way too short...
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