[3] Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas,[4] Pat Boyette entered radio drama as a youngster, performing on a local soap opera.
He became a broadcast journalist at radio station WOAI, and returned to this career following his World War II military service as a cryptographer.
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.
On his next assignment, Boyette co-created with staff writer Joe Gill the non-superpowered superhero The Peacemaker in the backup story in Fightin' 5 #40 (Nov. 1966).
The Peacemaker was Christopher Smith, a pacifist diplomat so committed to peace that he was willing to use force to advance the cause, employing an array of special non-lethal weapons, and also founding the Pax Institute.
The Peacemaker received his own title which lasted five issues, cover-dated March to November 1967, with the Fightin' 5 as a backup series.
Boyette also took on the writing and art for the superhero series Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt, succeeding creator Pete Morisi.