Pat Boyette
| Pat Boyette | |
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| Born | Aaron P. Boyette July 23, 1923 San Antonio, Texas |
| Died | January 14, 2000 (aged 76) Fort Worth, Texas |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Artist, Writer, Broadcasting personality |
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Notable works
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The Peacemaker |
Aaron P. "Pat" Boyette (July 27, 1923 – January 14, 2000) was an American broadcasting personality and news producer, and later a comic book artist best known for two decades of work for Charlton Comics, where he co-created the character the Peacemaker. He sometimes used the pen names Sam Swell, Bruce Lovelace, and Alexander Barnes.
Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, Pat Boyette entered radio drama as a youngster, performing on a local soap opera. He became a broadcast journalist at WOAI-AM, and returned to this career following his World War II military service as a cryptographer. He later segued into television, becoming a TV news anchor in San Antonio, Texas. Additionally, Boyette became the producer of a daytime talk show, a puppet show, and TV commercials.
Boyette directed and co-wrote the low-budget horror movie Dungeon of Harrow (1962). He also wrote, produced and directed the science-fiction comedy The Weird Ones a.k.a. The Weird One (1962), co-directed the war picture No Man's Land (1964).
While continuing to work in television, he wrote and drew the short-lived Western comic strip Captain Flame for a syndicate owned by Charlie Plumm. He returned to comics after first leaving broadcasting and spending most of the 1960s shooting movies in San Antonio.
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