Laika #1 was published by First Second Books on September 1, 2007, as part of a series that began in 2007. Nick Abadzis writes, and art comes from Hilary Sycamore. It features Nikita Khrushchev, Laika, Sergei Korolev, Anatoli Blagonravov and Boris Chertok, among 8 characters cataloged on VerseDB.