Hoot was a British comic that ran from (issues dates) 26 October 1985 to 25 October 1986, when it merged with The Dandy. Its cover price was 20p, represented by a stylized graphic depiction of a 20p coin. Throughout its run, it billed itself as "Britain's bubbling new comic!", a reference to the title masthead being made up of steam-billowing pipes (hence the title). Strips throughout its 53 issue run included:
The comic also featured short, three-frame strips featuring pre-existng DC Thomson characters, but, as noted in Graham Kibble-White's Ultimate Book of British Comics, few of these strips seemed to have been drawn by their "proper" artists, hence a rather odd-looking Lord Snooty.
Polar Blair and Spotted Dick later continued in The Dandy, with Cuddles joining another Dandy strip (Dimples) and becoming Cuddles and Dimples. Revised reprints of Piggles appeared for about half a year in 2004.