The Combat Heroes line is the GI Joe entry into Hasbro's "Heroes-scale" series of adorable, little-kid-friendly lines of characters from popular franchises. It was preceded by Star Wars Galactic Heroes, Marvel Superhero Squad, Transformers Robot Heroes, Indiana Jones Adventure Heroes and Toy Story Toy Chest Heroes. At New York Comic-Con 2009, IDW Publishing announced a comic based around the Combat Heroes toyline, slated for publication starting in May 2009. It will be written by Andy Schmidt, and published alongside a Robot Heroes comic, also by Schmidt.