Cooter McGee

Cooter McGee was one of the unwitting passengers of the original 1893 expedition to Mars. A crusty, weathered-looking cowboy, Cooter was the main supplier of Oxium for the trading post run by Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill.



Cooter's Oxium-prospecting had angered Raxachk (still masquerading as Rasputin), who wanted sole control of the element on Mars, so the villain sent warning that unless Cooter handed over the map showing the way to his "motherlode" stash of Oxium, he would have him killed. Refusing, Cooter was left for dead in the labyrinth caves of Noctis.

In Martian Dreams, on a tip from Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill, the Avatar's group rescued Cooter there from nearly being eaten by ammonoids. Grateful, McGee told the Avatar where to find his map, which he'd buried near a marker left by the three explorers Dr. David Yellin, Richard Sherman, and Major Greg Duprey.