58 days before the destruction of Krypton-One, its leading scientist Jor-El used his family's pet as a test subject for his experimental prototype rocketship. After orbiting the world below, the vessel was struck by a stray meteor, causing its engine to engage. After a month and a half of circling around the planet, Krypto's ship was pulled along through the spacewarp created by his young master Kal-El's rocketship, just as Krypton exploded.
Eventually, the puppy grew into a full grown dog, trapped within the vessel yet preserved alive thanks to yellow sun radiation which gave it super-abilities. Crashing on Earth-One years later, Krypto was finally freed from the ship and sought out his master, no longer a toddler but Superboy. As the Boy of Steel trained the Dog of Steel how to use its new powers with the help of the canine's increased intellect, Superboy enlisted Krypto's help in several adventures. In his civilian identity as Clark Kent, Superboy disguised Krypto and gave him a new alter ego as his dog Skip. After several years together, Krypto left to journey through space, although years later reunited with Kal... who was now Superman... on Earth-One. Krypto tried to romantically draw his master and Lois Lane together, to become husband and wife with him as their dutiful pet. Sadly, his scheme didn't succeed.
On Krypto-Two, Jor-L had less time to devise a test rocketship, and so sent his son Kal-L in an untested rocketship. Like his counterpart, Kal-L arrived on his new home world successfully. He grew up as Clark Kent and, in his teen years, as the Masked Wonder. Clark eventually became Superman, and married Lois Lane. Decades later, the Kents invited a new member into their family unit, although this dog was of Earth and so did not have superpowers. This dog, Krypto or Skip (?), traveled to another world... that of Telos... with Clark, Lois and the city of Metropolis.
Krypto had at least one and perhaps other robot duplicates built by his master, as Superboy had done with himself as well. On Earth-Two, a robot canine named Thor the Thunder Dog built by the alien Manhunters joined his master Dan Richard in his crimefighting crusade. It and its "kin" were secretly malevolent, as was Krypto's archfoe Kryptonite Dog.
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