Billy Bonney

Billy Bonney is Charlton's comic-book take on the legendary Old West outlaw Billy the Kid, a notorious frontier gunfighter whose daring exploits made him one of the most infamous figures of the American West.

Few Golden Age characters carry a name as loaded with frontier legend as Billy Bonney, who rode onto the page in Charlton Comics' Outlaws of the Wild West #1 back in 1952. What's remarkable is the staying power this character has shown — a publishing span stretching all the way to 2019 means Billy Bonney has kept galloping across comics history for the better part of seven decades. His appearances span titles like Billy the Kid, Great American Western, and the archival-minded Gwandanaland Comics, suggesting a character with genuine Western appeal who found a home wherever the frontier genre thrived. If you love the dust-and-gunsmoke atmosphere of classic Western comics at their Golden Age best, Billy Bonney is a name worth tracking down.