Action Comics

Cover Description: This book has multiple covers. Booster Gold and Superboy, drawn by Sklyar Patridge, appears in the cornerbox of Cover A (by Dan Mora), and the same art is featured prominently on Cover E Corner Box Spot Foil Variant.

Brief Synopsis: Superboy struggles with hiccups in time.

Booster Gold's role in this story:
Supporting (Booster Gold plays a lesser role)

Costume Worn: MARK I.v2 power-suit

Page 5, panel 1
The narrative boxes (presumably spoken by an adult Superman) establish that this story takes place "Many Years Ago" at the Metropolis Expo of Tomorrow. Though other context clues indicate that this scene is probably intended to take place in the 1980s, the designs of the Expo are clearly based on the 1964 New York World's Fair in Queens, with an analogs of the Unisphere and New York State Pavilion Observation Towers. This Expo and its exhibits, including the Sun Dome (modeled on the real-world Tent of Tomorrow) and a 20th-century incarnation of the Space Museum, was first seen in Action Comics #1087...

Page 5, panel 3
...where Superboy first appeared, saving the attendees from an attack by Raze. Even the plaque marking the first appearance of "The Boy of Tomorrow" has a real-world equivalent: the 1964 World's Fair was held at the same location as the 1939-40 World's Fair, where a terrorist's bomb killed two New York City Bomb Squad officers. A plaque in their memory was placed at the site during the 1964 World's Fair.

Page 20, panel 3
By interacting—whatever interaction "klik klik" represents—with a device that appears to be a tabletop electronic keyboard with a miniature radio antenna (or an antique wax cylinder phonograph), Superboy somehow rescues Martian Manhunter, Booster Gold, and Mary Marvel from imprisonment in... well, where they were imprisoned is not clear, and, as Booster will say on the next page, now is "no time to explain!" Congratulations to the writer and artists for keeping the reader just as confused as Superboy about what's happening here.

Page 21, panel 1
Chronologically for Superman, this would be his first meeting with Booster Gold.