Billy Jo

Riding into the Bronze Age on the pages of DC's All-Star Western, Billy Jo made their debut in 1971 courtesy of the legendary Gil Kane, a creator whose dynamic linework gave the Western genre a real shot of adrenaline. It's a compact but colorful corner of the DC universe, where Billy Jo shares the range with some of the most storied names in frontier comics — Billy the Kid, Buffalo Bill Cody, Davy Crockett, and the mysterious El Diablo among them. With appearances also in Bumper Western Album, this character is a genuine artifact of DC's Bronze Age love affair with the Western, a genre the publisher championed with real gusto through the 1970s. Rare and specific, Billy Jo is exactly the kind of discovery that makes digging through back-issue bins so rewarding.