What is "h.e.r.o."

H.E.R.O. (standing for Helicopter Emergency Rescue Operation) is a video game published by Activision for the Atari 2600 in March 1984. The game was ported to many contemporary consoles and home computers. In the game, the player uses a helicopter backpack and other tools to rescue victims trapped deep in a mine.

H.E.R.O. is an American comic book series published by DC Comics that started in 2003 and ran for 22 issues. The series was written by Will Pfeifer. Artists included Kano, Leonard Kirk and Dale Eaglesham.

The series' focus was the "H-Dial" that DC had first introduced in " Dial H for Hero" in House of Mystery in the 1960s. For this series the Dial was depicted as an object with buttons instead of a dial and was referred to as the H-Device.