Battle Beasts #1 was published by IDW Publishing on December 1, 2012, as part of a series that began in 2012. Bobby Curnow writes, and art comes from Dan Brereton, Ulises Fariñas and Valerio Schiti. It features Merk, Gruntos, Vorin, Bliss and Tate, among 6 characters cataloged on VerseDB.