Cole Younger

Cole Younger is a fictionalized comics version of the real-life Old West outlaw, depicted riding alongside Jesse James, Frank James, and Bob Younger as part of the notorious James-Younger gang in Avon's Western crime titles.

Riding straight out of the Golden Age, Cole Younger made his comics debut in Avon's Jesse James #1 in 1950, stepping onto the page as part of one of the most notorious casts in Western comics history. Sharing adventures with the likes of Jesse James, Frank James, and Bob Younger, Cole found himself in rough and storied company across titles like Badmen of the West — a real who's who of frontier outlawry. What's remarkable is that this character's presence in the catalog stretches across roughly four decades, from 1950 all the way to 1990, giving him a quiet longevity that most Golden Age Western figures never managed. For collectors with a taste for the Wild West pulp tradition and Avon's gritty, action-packed storytelling, Cole Younger is a name worth tracking down.