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Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton

Author Ryan North
Illustrated by Mike Norton
Paperback
$17.99 US
6.64"W x 10.16"H x 0.23"D   | 8 oz | 60 per carton
On sale Feb 10, 2026 | 120 Pages | 9781799505907

A heartfelt and moving view of humanity, good and bad, through the empathic eyes of the ultimate outsider—a poor, lost dog, who just happens to have superpowers.

Krypto the Superdog is a heartfelt and moving origin story for Superman’s beloved dog. We start with Krypto’s origins, seeing his life with Kal-El on Krypton, before he is sent into space and crash-lands on Earth. From there, we follow Krypto as he faces a new world for the first time. He travels from town to town, meeting and befriending people and working to solve their problems. In the end, he finds, and is found by, Superman.
Ryan North is a New York Times–bestselling author whose books include How to Invent Everything, Romeo and/or Juliet, and To Be or Not To Be. He’s the creator of Dinosaur Comics and the Eisner Award–winning writer of Adventure Time, Jughead, and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl for Marvel Comics, and he has a master’s in computational linguistics from the University of Toronto. Ryan lives in Toronto with his wife, Jenn, and their dog, Noam Chompsky.

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A heartfelt and moving view of humanity, good and bad, through the empathic eyes of the ultimate outsider—a poor, lost dog, who just happens to have superpowers.

Krypto the Superdog is a heartfelt and moving origin story for Superman’s beloved dog. We start with Krypto’s origins, seeing his life with Kal-El on Krypton, before he is sent into space and crash-lands on Earth. From there, we follow Krypto as he faces a new world for the first time. He travels from town to town, meeting and befriending people and working to solve their problems. In the end, he finds, and is found by, Superman.

Author

Ryan North is a New York Times–bestselling author whose books include How to Invent Everything, Romeo and/or Juliet, and To Be or Not To Be. He’s the creator of Dinosaur Comics and the Eisner Award–winning writer of Adventure Time, Jughead, and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl for Marvel Comics, and he has a master’s in computational linguistics from the University of Toronto. Ryan lives in Toronto with his wife, Jenn, and their dog, Noam Chompsky.

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