corner box
menu button
Boosterrific.com: The Complete, Annotated Adventures of Booster Gold
Boosterrific.com: The Complete, Annotated Adventures of Booster Gold

Buy Booster Gold

Justice League America

“Lifeboat”

Volume 1, Issue 35, February 1990
Released December 12, 1989

Cover Price: $1.00
Guide Price: $2.00 (as of 2011)

Boosterrific.com Rating
  • Currently 5.0/5 Stars.

Justice League America, Vol. 1, #35. Image © DC Comics

 

ARTISTS

return to top

CHARACTERS & SETTINGS

return to top

ISSUE DETAILS

Cover Description: As Maxwell Lord stands watch, Oberon and Huntress kneel over the limp body of Ice as all drift in the ocean on an iceberg. (No Booster Gold.)

Brief Synopsis: While Aquaman leads an attempt to anchor the runaway island of KooeyKooeyKooey, Ice lies dying on a block of ice in the Pacific Ocean.

Booster Gold's role in this story:
Featured (Booster Gold plays a prominent role)

Costume Worn: MARK I power-suit

Story Notes: The title to this story is also the title of an Alfred Hitchcock directed movie.

This story has been reprinted in:
Justice League International Omnibus (2020)
Justice League International Volume 6 (2011)

return to top

ANNOTATIONS

Page 5, panel 4
FIRST APPEARANCE: First appearance of reporter Wally Tortolini. Tortolini's future is tied to the trash of the Justice League.

Page 7, panel 6
FIRST APPEARANCE: First appearance of the yellow cat in the trashcan behind the New York JLI Embassy. Like Tortolini, the cat will be featured in future issues.

Page 10, panel 2
BUSTER GOLD: An angry customer of the now defunct Club JLI calls Booster Gold "Buster." Booster shrugs it off.

Image Copyright DC Comics

Page 18, panel 5
While Blue Beetle and Booster discuss the potential fallout over the Club JLI fiasco, Booster speculates that an angry Maxwell Lord will "put a bullet through my head." Beetle's response? "Oh, come on, Booster - Max'd never do that." How wrong you are, Beetle.

Page 22, panel 5
Lord's punishment for Beetle and Booster is to force them to become the maid service for the New York JLI Embassy. This humiliating punishment will not sit well with Booster as it draws out into the future.

return to top

REVIEWS

Boosterrific Review: A string of incredible comic books remains unbroken with this taut nautical drama that manages a rare appearance by former Justice League leader Aquaman. Truly a joy to read.

Boosterrific Rating:

  • Currently 5.0/5 Stars.
Boosterrific!

return to top

YOUR OPINION

Show Terms and Instructions

Name

Email

Website

Rating
  • Currently 0/5 Stars.
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Review [leaving this field blank will result in no review being displayed]



JUMP TO PAGE



SITE SEARCH


return to top

SPOILER WARNING: The content at Boosterrific.com may contain story spoilers for DC Comics publications.