Soon after, the dog found two people who had been trapped in a bomb shelter for a month following Superman's fight with Doomsday. However, the engraver of the dog tag (knowing that Bibbo had recently won the lottery) intentionally dropped the letter "n" ("Six letters or less for 1 dollar"), so he was trying to extort more money from Bibbo an angry Bibbo refused to comply and renamed the dog as Krypto. Originally, Bibbo had wanted to name the dog Krypton after Superman's home planet. The second modern Krypto was a small white pet dog, rescued, and later named by Bibbo Bibbowski. This was the same pocket reality from which the "Matrix" Supergirl originated. Combating the genocidal forces of the three Phantom Zone criminals, this alternate Superboy had an intelligent Krypto counterpart as well, who heroically sacrificed his powers for his master. In this early Post-Crisis storyline, Superman found himself in this pocket universe in which, similar to the Pre-Crisis Earth-Prime of Superboy Prime, his teenage counterpart was the only superhuman on Earth. This rewrite has in fact been dubbed by some as "krypto-revisionism".Įventually, however, Krypto (in several forms) was reintroduced to the Superman mythos, the first being as essentially an exact copy of the pre-crisis Krypto existing in a pocket universe created by the Time Trapper. In Superboy #126 (Jan 1966) "Krypto's Family Tree", Krypto's father's name was given as Zypto, his grandfather as Nypto and his great-grandfather as Vypto.įollowing the 1985-1986 Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series, Superman's history was extensively rewritten, initially eliminating all other survivors of Krypton in the revised version of his origin, including Krypto, so as to once again make the premise that Superman was truly the "Last Son of Krypton" a valid one. The villain died, but Krypto was irradiated by him and died as well. In the final (noncanonical) pre-Crisis Superman story, Alan Moore's Whatever Happened To The Man of Tomorrow?, Krypto sacrificed his life to save Superman by biting the throat out of the Kryptonite Man. Krypto had the distinction of belonging to not one but two organizations of super-animals the 30th century Legion of Super-Pets, and the Space Canine Patrol Agency. In that identity, his guardians applied a brown dye patch on his back for a disguise which Krypto could burn off with his heat vision when he went into costume. When not accompanying Superboy/Superman, Krypto spent much of his time romping through space while on Earth, however, he stayed with the Kent family, posing as their pet dog, "Skip". When fighting crime, he usually wore a gold collar, a miniature facsimile of the famed Superman-"S" symbol for a dog tag, and a dog-sized version of Superman's cape. Krypto was drawn as a white dog of generic pedigree. Krypto also had super-canine intelligence (approximately human level, though with his canine traits and interests still present) the comics expressed this via the use of thought balloons indicating what Krypto was thinking. Krypton's red sun and heavy gravity), Krypto possessed the same powers and abilities as his master, although his physical abilities were proportionate to his smaller size and species, similar to an ordinary dog vs. Like all descendants of Krypton under a yellow sun and lower gravity environment (vs. However, Krypto's rocket was knocked off-course the rocket drifted through space for years until it eventually landed on Earth, where Krypto was reunited with the now-teenaged superhero, Superboy. Jor-El, testing prototypes for the rocket that would eventually send Kal-El to Earth, decided to use Krypto as a test subject. As explained in his first appearance, Krypto was originally the toddler Kal-El's dog while they were on Krypton.
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