Pecos Bill

Pecos Bill is the legendary American tall-tale folk hero — a larger-than-life frontiersman of frontier mythology — who made his comics debut in Charlton's Tim McCoy #16, sharing pages with other Western and frontier legends like Paul Bunyan and Sunset Carson.

Few figures capture the wild, tall-tale spirit of the American frontier quite like Pecos Bill, the legendary folk hero who rode into comics during the Golden Age with his 1948 debut in Tim McCoy #16 from Charlton. Sharing pages with the likes of Sunset Carson, Paul Bunyan, and Tim McCoy himself, he kept genuinely mythic company — a roster that reads like a who's who of Western and frontier legend. His appearances across Tim McCoy, Cowboy Western Comics, and Western Hero through the late 1950s place him squarely in that golden era of cowboy comics when the American West ruled the spinner rack. With only nine catalogued appearances, Pecos Bill is a rare find for the Golden Age collector with a taste for frontier folklore done in four-color style.