Buffalo Bill Cody

Straight out of the Golden Age, Buffalo Bill Cody rode onto the four-color range in 1949, brought to life by artist Mario DeMarco in the pages of Cowboy Western Comics for Youthful — one of that era's scrappy, spirited publishers keeping the Western genre alive for young readers. Rooted in the legend of one of America's most iconic frontier figures, this comics incarnation spread across titles like Buffalo Bill and Cody of the Pony Express through the mid-1950s, when cowboy comics ruled the spinner racks. A rare slice of Golden Age Western publishing, his handful of catalog appearances make him a genuine find for collectors with a soft spot for that sun-baked, sagebrush-and-saddle era of comics history.