IDW Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 39

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* Cover A
* Cover B
* Retail Incentive

## Production Staff

### Cover Artist

* Abby Bulmer
(Cover A)
* Brigitte Dutreix
(Cover B)
* Nathalie Fourdraine
(Retail Incentive Cover)

### Cover Colorist

* Joana Lafuente
(Cover A)

### Colors

Matt Herms

**IDW Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 39** is the thirty-ninth issue in the *Sonic the Hedgehog* comic series published by IDW Publishing.

## Official solicitation

**Report: Test subjects S, A, and T are responding very well to experiments. Proceeding to phase three.**
*Sonic, Amy, and Tails are still stuck in Eggman's evil tower and being subjected to his increasingly crazy tests. It doesn't help that Tangle and Belle have unknowingly begun controlling the tower and are making it impossible for their friends to escape! Everyone's limits are pushed as they try to make it out in time in "Test Run," part three!.*
## Featured stories

### Test Run, Part 3

* **Story**: Evan Stanley
* **Art**: Evan Stanley (p. 1-3, 16-20), Bracardi Curry (p. 4-15)
* **Additional Inks**: Maria Keane
* **Colors**: Matt Herms
* **Letters**: Shawn Lee
* **Assistant Editor**: Riley Farmer
* **Editor**: David Mariotte
* **Special thanks to**: Mai Kiyotaki, Michael Cisneros, Sandra Jo, Sonic Team, and everyone at Sega for their invaluable assistance

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#### Appearances

**Characters**:

* Amy Rose
* Badniks
	+ Bubbles ***(First appearance)*** ***(Cameo)***
	+ Buzz Bomber ***(Cameo)***
	+ Caterkiller ***(Cameo)***
	+ Egg Pawn ***(Mentioned)***
	+ Kiki ***(First appearance)*** ***(Cameo)***
	+ Rhinotank ***(Cameo)***
	+ Piko-Piko ***(First appearance)*** ***(Cameo)***
	+ Quasi-Badniks
		- Crabber
		- Motochop
	+ Slicer ***(First appearance)*** ***(Cameo)***
* Cubot
* Dr. Eggman
* Miles "Tails" Prower
* Orbot
* Restoration
	+ Belle the Tinkerer
	+ Tangle the Lemur
* Sonic the Hedgehog

**Races and species**:

* Human

**Locations**:

* Sonic's dimension
	+ Sonic's world
		- Weather-controlling Tower

**Items**:

* Miles Electric
* Piko Piko Hammer
* Test Dummies

**Vehicles**:

* Egg Viper (x4)

**Misc.**:

* Eggman Empire
* Spin Attack

## Other features

* **Story so far**: "Story so far" is a summary of the current plotline for the comic.
* **Roll Call**: Roll Call acts as a quick reference guide to new readers about the characters. This issue provides data files on Sonic, Amy, Tails, Tangle and Belle.
* **Sonic Letters Squad**: Sonic Letters Squad is a section where the comic staff can post fan artwork and fan letters that have been sent in to them. The other pages showcase raw artwork of the variant covers for the issue. Only one page is featured in this issue. The other pages showcase raw artwork of the variant covers for the issue.
* **Creator Corner**: Creator Corner is a section where one of the staff that works on the *Sonic the Hedgehog* comic series is interviewed. In this case, the section is dedicated to Nathalie Fourdraine.

## Gallery

### Early covers

Cover A. Art by Abby Bulmer. Colors by Joana Lafuente.Cover B. Art by Gigi Dutreix.

## References

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