Action Comics
“Mission Failure”
Volume 1, Issue 1100, September 2026
Released July 22, 2026
Cover Price: $5.99
Writer: Mark Waid
Artists: Skylar Patridge, Ryan Sook
Colorists: Ivan Plascencia, Ryan Sook
Letterer: Steve Wands
Assistant Editor: Jillian Grant
Editor: Brittany Holzherr
Heroes: Booster Gold, Bruce Gordon, Martian Manhunter, Mary Marvel, Superboy
Villain: Epoch
Supporting: Jonathan Kent, Martha Kent
Setting: Smallville, KS, USA, 20th-century
Cover Description: This book has multiple covers; none features Booster Gold.
Brief Synopsis: Superboy has a showdown with Epoch.
Booster Gold's role in this story:
Featured (Booster Gold plays a prominent role)
Costume Worn: MARK I.v2 power-suit
Page 8, panel 1
Picking up where the previous issue left off, Superboy corrects Epoch's changes to his timeline and in doing so restores Martian Manhunter, Mary Marvel, and Booster Gold to existence.
Page 8, panel 3
SOLIDIFIED TIME: While the others deal with Epoch, Booster Gold saves Bruce Gordon. This is more than an act of altruism: having just survived a timeline paradox himself, Booster knows Gordon must survive for their meeting in Justice League America Annual #6.
Page 12, panel 3
POWER UP: Using Epoch's armor and "paradox engine" and his own Legion of Super-Heroes Flight Ring as a power source, Booster Gold re-configures the Kent family tractor into a new Time Sphere to replace the one destroyed in Justice League Unlimited #18. He needed Ted Kord to fix the previous Time Bubble, but this one he built himself from parts? Great job! (Booster always works best under pressure.)
Page 13, panel 1
Booster Gold pilots the new Time Sphere through the time stream in the continuing search for Superman, who has been missing since DC K.O. #5. Despite Manhunter's repeated warnings, Booster shows Superboy glimpses of his future in the timestream, including...
Page 13, panel 4
...his first meeting with Krypto the Superdog (Adventure Comics #210, 1955),...
Page 14, panel 3
...his first meeting with the Legion of Super-Heroes (Adventure Comics #247, 1958),...
Page 16, panel 1
...his girlfriend Lois Lane, his pal Jimmy Olsen, and his The Daily Planet co-workers Perry White, Cat Grant, Ron Troupe, and Steve Lombard,...
Page 16, panel 2
...his crystal Fortress of Solitude,...
Page 17, panel 1
...his World's Finest teammate, Batman,...
Page 18, panel 1
...a selection of his greatest enemies, including Lex Luthor, Braniac, Bizarro, Mxyzptlk, Parasite, and General Zod...
Page 18, panel 2
...his first meeting with Supergirl (Action Comics #252, 1959),...
Page 19, panel 2
...and his membership in the Justice League Unlimited.
Page 20, panel 1
Manhunter distracts Superboy from seeing images of his own death (Superman #75, 1993) and his son, Jonathan Samuel Kent, flying into action.
Boosterrific Review: I found this anniversary issue to be incredibly satisfying, both for its required primer of select highlights of Superman's history as well as the emotional reunion of Booster Gold and Superman. It doesn't redeem the "All In" era, but at least it remembers that when the DC Universe works, it's because the characters are written like real people, not action figure plot devices. Congratulations to all for sticking the landing.
Boosterrific Rating: Boosterrific!
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