Dates
- Cover date
- January 1990
- On sale
- October 24, 1989
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition$1.00 cover
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition$1.00 cover
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 07189646794901 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page - Canadian price edition1.20 CAD cover
Canadian
Printed cover price 1.20 CAD.
Barcode 07189646794901 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page
Creators
Stories
- Just a Pooch Named Hot Dog · 2 pages
Hot Dog gives a brief introduction to his life.
- Home, Strange Home · 4 pages
When Jughead's mom decides Hot Dog can't live in the house anymore, Jughead and Dilton build him a doghouse with all kinds of special enhancements, but Hot Dog isn't impressed.
- The Mousers of the Universe, Part 1 · 5 pages
Disgruntled over his new doghouse, Hot Dog agrees to accompany the Astro-Mutts on a space mission against the evil Galacti-Cats and their ally, Drak Batfang.
- There's No Place (in Outer Space) Like Home, Part 2 · 6 pages
Hot Dog decides that he is not really cut out for adventures in space and asks to be returned to Earth. In gratitude for his help, the Astro-Mutts renovate his doghouse, installing loads of super-scientific equipment and a robot butler.
- Bully for You · 5 pages
With the help of his new doghouse full of inventions, Hot Dog protects his friend Pablito from the bully dog Dobie.
Characters
Reprinted in
Jughead's Double Digest (1989), Laugh Comics Digest / Laugh Comics Digest Magazine / Laugh Digest Magazine (1974)