Wild Joe

During his living days, Joe favored a pale overcoat layered over a brown shirt, with a black bandana knotted at his throat. A brown cowboy hat sat on his head, and he rounded out the look with light trousers and matching footwear.

Death reshaped his form entirely. The phantom version of him shrank in size, and where his legs had been there was now a wispy tail. He drifted about in a white robe, the cowboy hat nowhere to be found.

Vengeance defined Joe once Gill Bastar took his life. Bent on settling the score from beyond the grave, he sought to seize hold of his killer's body. That thirst for payback never fully cooled, clinging to him right up until the moment he finally moved on in the afterlife.

Joe boasted that no bounty hunter could match him, yet Gill Bastar, a man carrying a steep price on his head for the lives he had taken, dispatched him without much trouble when Joe attempted to claim the kill. Reduced to a phantom, Joe assumed nobody could see him and dogged Gill's steps while hurling insults. To his shock, Gill wheeled around and snapped at him to be quiet. Stunned that he had been noticed, Joe swore vengeance and tagged along into the desert.

The two traded notes about Sino Phoenix as they traveled, eventually stopping at a town bar for a drink. Hovering between Gill and a stranger he recognized as Sino, Joe tipped off his companion, who slipped away before Sino could spot him. Still hungry for payback, Joe seized control of Gill, steering the gunman into a duel against Sino. With that opponent struck down, Joe's lingering spirit faded and crossed over at last. He holds the distinction of being the earliest undead figure Oda ever created.