Mario's Picross (comic)

Mario's Picross is the name of an 8-page comic in two parts, published in the 4/1995 and 5/1995 issues of the German Club Nintendo magazine. After "Donkey Kong Country", it is the second comic in the magazine to be directly based on an actual game, in this case Mario's Picross.

Part One (4/1995)


Mario is travelling to Egypt, planning an adventure holiday. Obviously not having learned from his experiences in "Super Mario: Erholung? Nein, danke!", he has booked the flight with KoopAir again. He is already able to see pyramids from inside the plane, when Bowser the steward is coming toward him, pushing him out of the plane. Mario is able to grab onto a rock spur not far from the ground. The spur, however, turns out to be the nose of the Sphinx, and breaks off. After falling down, Mario changes his clothes to an archaeologist-like outfit. Suddenly he notices some Egyptians with rapiers running towards him, complaining about Mario's "mutilation" of the Sphinx. Trying to flee, he jumps onto a nearby Dromedary. However, it runs away with high speed, which causes Mario to get caught and arrested by the Egyptians. They put him into a pyramid.

Mario tries to find the way out of the maze-like building. However, he comes to a dead end. With his Hammer, he smashes the wall and finds a sarcophagus behind. Out comes a mummy, looking for an archaeologist to eat. Mario, however, has wrapped himself in toilet paper, making the mummy take him for a fellow and go away. When going further, Mario comes across three buttons on a wall (showing a Game Boy, an SNES controller, and an SNES mouse). Thinking that it is his task to push the buttons in the correct order, he presses them all. Instead of opening a door for him, however, the mechanism makes Mario fall into a pitfall.

Trivia

 * Mario is breaking the Fourth Wall twice by speaking about the comic.