The cover is by Richard Elson, who always provided dynamic images and was perfect for being the main artist on the Sonic the Hedgehog lead strip.
STC (as it was often abbreviated as) had four stories of five to seven pages each in every 32 page issue. Some were serials, some were complete stories. This gave us plenty of room to build a story and develop the characters. The lead story was always Sonic the Hedgehog of course, usually written by Nigel Kitching, and drawn by Richard Elson.
For some reason, some of the strips in this issue carried the wrong credits. This story I wrote, Dream On, was drawn by Carl Flint, but it's credited to Bob Corona. Carl did a great job on this, producing some eerie, nightmarish visuals, perfectly suited to the story. Just to give you a bit of back story, every issue, Amy and Tekno were travelling to different worlds and dimensions, thanks to the mysterious Ring of Eternity...
The third story, Captain Christmas, is credited to Nigel Kitching and Nigel Dobbyn, but it's actually written by me with art by Bob Corona. Here's page one of the five page story...
The fourth story was a reprint, and not Christmas related.
Sonic the Comic was a great comic to work on and it was considered by many to be a perfect middle ground between comics like The Beano and 2000AD. It's a pity there's nothing like it on the newsstands today.
Another Christmas comic tomorrow!
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