Below is a list of every Sonic the Hedgehog continuity. The table below lists every individual continuity. Beneath that is a list of each individual continuity with details. Each continuity has its own page including reading orders for the comics and individual tables listing entries in each separate continuity (as opposed to the single list of entries on the Adventure Master List).

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Video games	Early concepts / Sonic Bible	Sonic the Hedgehog Story Comic	Shogakukan manga	Yearbooks / Newspaper strips
Archie Comics	Golden Books	Troll Associates	Sonic the Comic	Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog (TV series)	Virgin novels	Adventure Gamebooks	Ladybird	La Sirène
Watermill Press	Look & Find	Play-a-Sound	Sonic the Hedgehog the Movie	Sonic Underground
Dash & Spin	Sonic X	Official Sonic shorts	Sonic Boom	Sonic Comic (manga)
IDW	Tales of…	Paramount	Sonic Prime	Sonic & Friends

See also (coming soon): Crossovers, STC Sega Superstars, Related Archie Comics

List of Continuities

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• Video Games: The original source material for the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. Primarily made by Sonic Team, one of Sega’s best-known teams of video game developers, these games provide the basis for all of the adaptations listed below.
• Early concepts/Sonic Bible: Not strictly their own continuities, these entries cover concepts unused in the finished original 1991 Sonic the Hedgehog game as well as elements created for Sonic’s backstory in early Western adaptations.
• Sonic the Hedgehog Story Comic: The first Sonic the Hedgehog manga, providing a backstory to the games. This ran in issues of Japanese magazine Mega Drive Fan from June to July 1991 to promote the original Sonic the Hedgehog video game.
• Shogakukan manga: Sonic’s appearances in Shogakukan’s range of magazines in Japan. Despite the name, this continuity did also feature prose stories.
• Newspaper strips: British newspaper The Daily Express previously featured a mini-newspaper for young readers in its weekend editions. Sonic was a regular feature in a newspaper strip in the pages of this publication. The first two Sonic annuals are also in this continuity and actually predate the newspaper strip itself.
• Archie Comics: The longest running western comic based on a video game, produced by American company Archie Comics. With over 500 issues across its run (including spin-offs and specials) and an even greater number of stories within its pages, this is comfortably the largest Sonic the Hedgehog adaptation to date.
• Golden Books: A small selection of Sonic books for younger readers by American publisher Golden Books. They feature the characters seen in the Archie Comics.
• Troll Associates: A selection of Sonic books for older children by American publisher Troll Associates. These also feature the characters seen in the Archie Comics but continuity diverges quite a bit, particularly with the introduction of Knuckles.
• Sonic the Comic: The UK’s official Sega comic published by Fleetway (later merged with Egmont). The longest-running continuity to come from Europe, with over 200 issues (including spin-offs and specials) across its run.
• Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: A slapstick Sonic cartoon that owes much to Looney Tunes, this animated series by American animation studio DiC has seen a resurgence in popularity in the years since it concluded.
• Sonic the Hedgehog (TV series): An adventure cartoon by American animation studio DiC starring Sonic and his friends. The tone is a little less light-hearted than usual but there’s still fun to be found here.
• Virgin novels: A series of four novels produced by Virgin Books in the UK. They take place in a sort of expanded version of the video game continuity. The large page count means the stories can go into a little more depth than that usually seen in the Sonic series.
• Gamebooks: A series of “Choose Your Own Adventure”-style books starring Sonic and Tails produced by Fantail in the UK. These books have 300 individual nodes and the way the reader progresses through them determines the way the story plays out.
• Ladybird: A series of publications for young fans of Sonic produced by British publisher Ladybird. The age ranges of the intended audience differ from book to book though all are still aimed at children.
• La Sirène: A small selection of comics and books produced by La Sirène in France, with a fun and often comedic take on Sonic and his friends, as well as a surprisingly prescient depiction of the echidna race.
• Watermill Press: A one-off publication by American company Watermill Press recaps a version of Sonic and Doctor Robotnik’s origin story as previously seen in the Archie Comics.
• Look & Find: A one-off publication produced in America by Look & Find that tasked the reader with spotting Sonic’s friends and items of importance in crowded scenes, similar to Martin Handford’s Where’s Wally? series.
• Play-A-Sound: A one-off publication by American company Publications International for younger Sonic fans that encouraged the reader to press an appropriate button during the course of the story so the attached soundboard played a related sound effect.
• Sonic the Hedgehog the Movie: A two-part Japanese Original Video Animation produced by the Japanese animation studio Pierrot. This marked the first animated appearances of Knuckles and Metal Sonic.
• Sonic Underground: A cartoon by DiC and French animation studio Les Studios Tex in which Sonic discovers he is not only a triplet, but also a prince. Using the power of music, Sonic teams up with siblings Sonia and Manic to fight Doctor Robotnik.
• Dash & Spin: A Sonic manga produced by Shogakukan in Japan. For more information, please see this page.
• Sonic X: A long-running anime series produced by Japanese animation studio TMS Entertainment. The international version was initially localised by 4Kids Entertainment, becoming the basis for the cartoon in other countries.
• Official Sonic shorts: Various short cartoons produced by Sega and released on the official Sonic the Hedgehog YouTube channel. They quite often tie into various video games and also often take place in the video game continuity.
• Sonic Boom: A multi-media reimagining of the Sonic world with multiple companies across multiple countries involved in its production. The series is much more comedic and light-hearted in tone than most Sonic continuities.
• Sonic Comic (manga): A series of manga starring Sonic and his friends released on the Japanese Sonic Channel website and later translated into English and included in toy packs for western audiences. They tell humorous stories about the Sonic video game cast.
• IDW Comics: Ongoing comic series published by American company IDW. Essentially a divergent continuity, the series assumes the events of the video games up to Sonic Forces make up its backstory, then diverges to tell its own stories, often with original characters.
• Tales of…: A pair of short story collections starring Sonic and his friends produced by Penguin Books in America. Aimed at older children.
• Paramount: A series of movies and television series produced by Paramount in America. These see Sonic and his friends in a live action setting, though with the anthropomorphic animals created using computer generated imagery.
• Sonic & Friends: A series of short, cutesy cartoons produced by Sega and initially broadcast on social media platform TikTok. The cartoons are aimed at a younger audience.