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

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personality and news producer, and later a

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artist best known for two decades of work for

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, where he co-created the character the

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. He sometimes used the

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Sam Swell, Bruce Lovelace, and Alexander Barnes.Pat Boyette
at the

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. October 18, 2011.

Biography

Broadcast career

Born and raised in

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, Pat Boyette entered

radio drama Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine ...

as a youngster, performing on a local

soap opera A soap opera, or ''soap'' for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored ...

. He became a broadcast journalist at radio station WOAI, and returned to this career following his

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

military service as a

cryptographer Cryptography, or cryptology (from grc, , translit=kryptós "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or ''-logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adver ...

. He later segued into

television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...

, becoming a TV

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. Additionally, Boyette became the producer of a daytime

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, a puppet show, and TV commercials.

Films

Boyette

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, co-wrote, scored and narrated the low-budget 1962 horror movie ''The Dungeon of Harrow'', which was reminiscent of

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cycle of films. He also wrote, produced and directed the

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comedy Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term o ...

''The Weird Ones'' a.k.a. ''The Weird One'' (1962), and co-directed the Korean War picture ''No Man's Land'' (1964). All the films were shot in Texas. In 1970 he wrote the screenplay for

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's girl moonshiners vs. bikers film ''

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''.

Comics

While continuing to work in television, he wrote and drew the short-lived

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''Captain Flame'' for a

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owned by Charlie Plumm. He returned to comics after first leaving broadcasting and spending most of the 1960s shooting movies in San Antonio.

Charlton

Turning to comic books, Boyette began a two-decade stint as a freelance artist for the

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-based, low-budget

. His first known work for the company is the nine-page story "'Spacious' Rooms for Rent" in the

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'' Shadows from Beyond'' #50 (Oct. 1966). The Grand Comics Database also tentatively identifies an additional nine-page story that issue, "Reprieve!", as being penciled by Boyette. On his next assignment, Boyette co-created with staff writer

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the non-superpowered

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The Peacemaker in the backup story in ''

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'' #40 (Nov. 1966). The Peacemaker was Christopher Smith, a

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so committed to

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that he was willing to use force to advance the cause, employing an array of special

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s, and also founding the Pax Institute. Most of his antagonists were dictators and warlords. The Peacemaker received his own title which lasted five issues, cover-dated March to November 1967, with the Fightin' 5 as a backup series.

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acquired the character following Charlton's demise in the mid-1980s, and the Peacemaker became the basis for the character the

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in writer

Alan Moore Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English author known primarily for his work in comic books including ''Watchmen'', ''V for Vendetta'', ''The Ballad of Halo Jones'', ''Swamp Thing'', ''Batman:'' ''The Killing Joke'', and ''From Hell' ...

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''.The Peacemaker
at

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. October 25, 2011. Boyette drew, and often wrote, hundreds of stories for Charlton through to at least 1976, for such supernatural series as ''

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'', ''

Ghostly Tales ''Ghostly Tales'' was a horror-suspense anthology comic book series published by Charlton Comics from 1966 to 1984 (though it was primarily a reprint title from 1978 onward). The book was "hosted" by Mr. L. Dedd (later changed to I. M. Dedd), a m ...

,'' and ''

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'';

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

series like ''Outer Space'', ''

Strange Suspense Stories ''Strange Suspense Stories'' was a comic book published in two volumes by Fawcett Comics and Charlton Comics in the 1950s and 1960s. Starting out as a horror/suspense title, the first volume gradually moved toward eerie fantasy and weird science f ...

,'' '' Space: 1999'' and ''Space Adventures''; Western series such as ''

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'', '' Cheyenne Kid,'' and ''Outlaws of the West'';

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such as ''Love Diary'' and ''Secret Romance'';

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like ''Attack'' and ''Fightin' Marines''; and the licensed-character series ''

Flash Gordon Flash Gordon is the protagonist of a space adventure comic strip created and originally drawn by Alex Raymond. First published January 7, 1934, the strip was inspired by, and created to compete with, the already established ''Buck Rogers'' adve ...

'', ''

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'' and ''

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'' from

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, the

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adventure series '' Korg: 70,000 B.C.'' and ''

The Six Million Dollar Man ''The Six Million Dollar Man'' is an American science fiction and action television series, running from 1973 to 1978, about a former astronaut, USAF Colonel Steve Austin, portrayed by Lee Majors. After a NASA test flight accident, Austin is reb ...

''. Boyette also took on the writing and art for the superhero series ''

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'', succeeding creator

Pete Morisi Peter A. Morisi (January 7, 1928 – October 12, 2003),Peter A. Morisi
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. 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

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' ''Enemies and Aces'' #1.

Other comics work

For a brief period in 1968, Boyette drew issues of the DC Comics aviator series ''

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''. That same year, his friend and Charlton colleague

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helped Boyette join the stable of artists freelancing for

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's black-and-white horror-comics magazines, initially having him ghost-pencil, uncredited, "The Rescue of the Morning Maid" in ''

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'' #18 (Jan. 1968), which credited artist Mastroserio inked.Arndt, Richard J
"The Warren Magazines"
(2005 version with five interviews). . Boyette would go on to do credited work for such other Warren titles as ''

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'' occasionally through 1970 before making Charlton his base. In the mid-1970s, he drew the feature "The Tarantula" in Atlas Comics' ''Weird Suspense''. Boyette's other comic work includes a

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story for

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in 1986; his self-published SF/

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anthology ''The Cosmic Book'' #1 (Dec. 1986), under the imprint Wandering Star Press; issues of ''Blood of

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'' for Apple Press in 1988 and 1989; and inking penciler Howard Simpson on the 21-page story "White Men Speak with Forked Tongue (Jurassic Politics part 2)" in

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' '' Turok, Dinosaur Hunter'' #18 (Dec. 1994).Pat Boyette
at the

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. 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

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... trade paperback series.

Death

Boyette died in

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, of cancer of the

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. He was predeceased by his wife, Betty or Bette (sources differ). The couple had a daughter, Melissa.

References

External links

* * * Evanier, Mark. ''Superheroes in My Pants!'' (TwoMorrows Publishing, 2004, ), "Pat Boyette", pp. 126+ * Additiona
WebCitation archive
June 15, 2010. * *Baumann, Marty. , IComics.com, June 10, 1998

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