Davy Crockett

Charlton's comic-book take on the real-life American frontier hero Davy Crockett, depicted as a rugged backwoodsman and folk legend of the Tennessee wilderness, arriving during the peak of America's mid-1950s coonskin-cap craze popularized by the Disney television series.

Bursting onto the page in 1956 courtesy of creator Charles Nicholas, this Davy Crockett is a frontier legend rendered in four-color glory during the Golden Age of comics — arriving right in the thick of America's coonskin-cap craze. Across a remarkable span stretching all the way to 2017, he's kept rugged company with the likes of Lash LaRue and Daniel Boone, rubbing elbows with some of the Western genre's most beloved figures. His appearances are concentrated in the Gwandanaland Comics world, a publisher with a passion for preserving classic Western comics heritage. Six catalog appearances may sound modest, but for collectors who love the wild, wide-open spirit of Golden Age Westerns, tracking down this frontier icon is absolutely worth the ride.