Who Is Buffalo Bill? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Buffalo Bill is a Non-Fictional comic book character, the alter ego of William Frederick Cody, with over 1,852 comic issue appearances. An American bison hunter and showman best known for his portrayal of the Wild West

Who is Buffalo Bill?

Origin William Cody was born into a Quaker family in 1846. As Quakers, his family were abolitionists. When he was 7 the family moved from Iowa to Kansas , where the family remained vocally anti-slavery. His father was attacked and stabbed by slavery proponents during a speech, and the family was continually harassed. His father died in 1857, when Cody was 11, and the young Cody had to take a job delivering messages on a freight carrier to help support the family. Soon afterwards he joined Johnston's Army, where he travelled to Utah to aid in putting down a rumoured, and ultimately non-existent, Mormon uprising. During this time he also allegedly took his first life, that of a Sioux warrior. At 14 he became involved in the gold rush, but while heading to the gold fields he encountered a member of the Pony Express.

Key facts

Buffalo Bill is of human origin. The character is published by Non-Fictional. With 1,852 recorded issue appearances, Buffalo Bill ranks among the most featured characters in comics.