I was gonna say ‘haha don’t let me buy these!’ but then I remembered it’s almost my birthday. I’m gonna get my brother to buy them for me
This is from when I was a kid, so there were actually several issues of this series before the cover art changed to the more familiar one with Astro in his classic pose. (I’m not sure if they did other covers for different issues.)
That one was my favorite though – it had Spud and Robotnik on it! There was even an issue where Astro got captured by Robotnik and he needed help saving him because Astro couldn’t use his superpowers or whatever. Anyway you can see that cover at right. It used to be pretty easy to find scans online but then all those sites disappeared for some reason? This particular cover isn’t up anywhere else as far as I know.
Anyway here are some pages:
And … this:
My brother wants me to point out that the way the robot arms work in these early issues (“having no thumbs”) seems like a deliberate decision by Ken Steacy rather than just being a result of drawing them freehand.
Robotnik? Was it an Astro Boy crossover with Sonic, or something?
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