Pat Boyette

Aaron P. "Pat" Boyette (July 27, 1923 – January 14, 2000)

Biography

Broadcast career Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, He also wrote, produced and directed the science-fiction comedy The Weird Ones a.k.a. The Weird One (1962), and co-directed the Korean War picture No Man's Land (1964).

Boyette drew, and often wrote, hundreds of stories for Charlton through to at least 1976, for such supernatural series as Ghost Manor, Ghostly Tales, and The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves; science fiction series like Outer Space, Strange Suspense Stories, Space: 1999 and Space Adventures; Western series such as Billy the Kid, Cheyenne Kid, and Outlaws of the West; romance comics such as Love Diary and Secret Romance; war comics like Attack and Fightin' Marines; and the licensed-character series Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim and The Phantom from King Features, the prehistoric adventure series Korg: 70,000 B.C. and The Six Million Dollar Man. Boyette also took on the writing and art for the superhero series Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt, succeeding creator Pete Morisi. His work continued to be published at Charlton as reprints through to at least 1986. Some of his Charlton work was reprinted as late as 2002 in Avalon Communications' Enemies and Aces #1.

Other comics work For a brief period in 1968, Boyette drew issues of the DC Comics aviator series Blackhawk. That same year, his friend and Charlton colleague Rocke Mastroserio helped Boyette join the stable of artists freelancing for Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror-comics magazines, initially having him ghost-pencil, uncredited, "The Rescue of the Morning Maid" in Creepy #18 (Jan. 1968), which credited artist Mastroserio inked. Boyette would go on to do credited work for such other Warren titles as Eerie occasionally through 1970

His last known comics work was penciling and inking the three-page story "The Head of Joaquin Murieta" in The Big Book of the Weird Wild West (Aug. 1998), one of DC Comics/Paradox Press's The Big Book of... trade paperback series.