Aaron P "Pat" Boyette was an American broadcasting personality and news producer, and later a comic book artist best known for two decades of work for Charlton Comics, where he co-created the character the Peacemaker.
12 Facts About Pat Boyette
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Pat Boyette sometimes used the pen names Sam Swell, Bruce Lovelace, and Alexander Barnes.
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Pat Boyette became a broadcast journalist at radio station WOAI, and returned to this career following his World War II military service as a cryptographer.
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Pat Boyette later segued into television, becoming a TV news anchor in San Antonio, Texas.
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Additionally, Boyette became the producer of a daytime talk show, a puppet show, and TV commercials.
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Pat Boyette directed, co-wrote, scored and narrated the low-budget 1962 horror movie The Dungeon of Harrow, which was reminiscent of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe cycle of films.
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Pat Boyette returned to comics after first leaving broadcasting and spending most of the 1960s shooting movies in San Antonio.
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Pat Boyette took on the writing and art for the superhero series Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt, succeeding creator Pete Morisi.
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Pat Boyette's work continued to be published at Charlton as reprints through to at least 1986.
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Pat Boyette would go on to do credited work for such other Warren titles as Eerie occasionally through 1970 before making Charlton his base.
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Pat Boyette died in Fort Worth, Texas, of cancer of the esophagus.
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Pat Boyette was predeceased by his wife, Betty or Bette.