52

ARTISTS

Writers: Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid
Pencillers: Joe Bennett, Keith Giffen
Inkers: Belardino Brabo, Jack Jadson
Colorist: David Baron
Letterer: Rob Leigh
Editor: Michael Siglain

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CHARACTERS & SETTINGS

heroes: Booster Gold, Red Tornado, Rip Hunter
villaines: Mister Mind, T.O. Morrow
supporting: Skeets II

Setting: 21st-century T.O. Morrow's Lab, DCU, USA

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ISSUE SUMMARY

Cover Description: Gears depicting the earth fall from Red Tornado's head. (No Booster Gold.)

Brief Synopsis: The final secrets behind "52" begin to unravel.

Costume Worn: MARK I.v2 power-suit

Issue Notes: Booster Gold's battle against the rogue Skeets II nears an end.

This story has been reprinted in the following issues:
52 Omnibus (2012)
52 Volume 4 (2007)

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ISSUE ANNOTATIONS

Page 18, panel 2
FASHION ALERT: "Week 51, Day 7." Booster Gold and Rip Hunter return to T.O. Morrow's Rocky Mountain laboratory to save Morrow from Skeets II, who seeks that head of Red Tornado. Booster Gold's costume, for the last time, is shown to include advertising patches. In future appearances, Booster's costume will have reverted to the clean look seen when the Mark I.v2 costume debuted in Infinite Crisis #2.

Page 19, panel 3
SPOILER WARNING!: Much to Booster's surprise, Skeets II is revealed to have been destroyed and his body used as a shell for the gestation of Mr. Mind. Mr. Mind is a member of the evil insect race of the planet Venus who has long plagued Captain Marvel. He was seen early in the series 52 among the possessions of Dr. Sivana, another of Captain Marvel's foes. Reveal

Page 20, panel 4
Booster enters Rip Hunter's latest Time Bubble as the pair travel "back to where it all started." Throughout Booster's history in the DC Universe, it has long been held that no human could survive travel through time via the same means more than once due to overwhelming stress on the body. Since Booster and Hunter certainly arrived in Morrow's laboratory via the Time Bubble, either Rip Hunter has devised a means to constantly modify his method of travel so that each trip occurs through different means, or that restriction on time travel is no longer relevant in the post-Infinite Crisis DC Universe.

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ISSUE REVIEW

Boosterrific Review: In this penultimate chapter of 52, World War III is over and the world (worlds?) can relax again. Or so everyone thinks. At long last the secret of evil Skeets is revealed (in the final pages of this issue, unsettling the blissful denouement that occupies the first two-thirds of the book in much the same way as a final surprise attack lurks at the end of most horror movies).

Boosterrific Rating:

• Currently 4.0/5 Stars.

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