DC X AEW
“The Forbidden Door Saga”
Volume 1, Issue 1, April 2026
Released February 4, 2026
Cover Price: $4.99
Writer: Steve Orlando
Artist: Travis Mercer
Colorist: Andrew Dalhouse
Letterer: Josh Reed
Editor: Michael McCalister
Cover Description: This book has multiple covers; none features Booster Gold.
Brief Synopsis: The Justice League and the AEW wrestlers team-up to recover the shattered and scattered fragments of the Big Galactic Belt.
Booster Gold's role in this story:
Supporting (Booster Gold plays a lesser role)
Costume Worn: MARK I.v2 power-suit
Story Notes: This story contains characters inhabiting universes owned by corporate rivals of publisher DC Comics. The AEW logo and all AEW characters and storylines are copyright All Elite Wrestling, LLC.
Page 1, panel 2
Booster Gold, Skeets, and former All Elite Wrestling (AEW) wrestler Excalibur are in Gotham Square Garden in Gotham City working as the ringside commentators for the AEW Forbidden Door Wresting Across the Multiverse (W.A.M.) Intergalactic Championship match between AEW's Mercedes Mone and reigning WAM champion Deceilia Starshame. Starshame lost the match, but rather than turn over the Intergalactic Championship Belt trophy, she shattered it, setting off an explosion that damaged the arena. This panel is the only on-panel appearance in this issue for either Booster Gold or Skeets (or Excalibur, for that matter).
Page 4, panel 1
When the Justice League and AEW wrestlers create two-person teams to hunt down the reality-altering "X Shards" of the shattered Intergalactic Championship Belt, Booster Gold and Excalibur continue their running commentary as Skeets' records the action from around the globe and the DC Multiverse. The first shard is in the hidden city of Nanda Parbat in the Himalayan mountains...
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...the second is in Vanity, Oregon, former home of Aztek and the Ray...
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...the third is in magical Limbo Town beneath New York City,...
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...the fourth is on Dinosaur Island in the South Pacific Ocean,...
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...the fifth is in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where Booster's old adversaries the Royal Flush Gang have opened a casino command center,...
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...the sixth is in Staten Island, New York,...
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...the seventh is in the Underworld (where Skeets has apparently gone to literal Hell),...
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...the eighth is in "Gotham's Tomb" beneath Gotham City,...
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...the ninth is in Metropolis,...
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..and the tenth X Shard is under the Atlantic Ocean.
Boosterrific Review: The need to squeeze so much intellectual property into one 24-page comic leaves the impression of a corporate marketing exercise, which this definitely is. It's fine for what it is.
Boosterrific Rating: Gold Standard.
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