This weekend, Brian Cronin assembled an impressive article detailing five business schemes perpetrated by Blue Beetle and Booster Gold with the intent of supplementing their JLI income.

The list includes run-ins with vampires, the Joker, enraged pin-up models, the Vatican, and, of course, KooeyKooeyKooey.

I don't have much to add other than to say go read it at CBR.com.

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Every Friday for the past ten years, Brian Cronin has run a regular "Comic Book Legends Revealed" post that clarifies some common misconceptions about comic book history. This past Friday, Booster Gold got a turn. Specifically, Superman's appearance in Booster Gold #6.

COMIC LEGEND: The first comic book appearance of the Post-Crisis Superman was in the pages of Booster Gold!

STATUS: I'm Going With True

[I]n the pages of Booster Gold #6 (by Dan Jurgens and Mike DeCarlo), Booster met Superman for the first time. ... Superman doesn't recognize the Legion of Superheroes flight ring, because THAT's the Post-Crisis Superman!

They essentially confirm it in the letter pages of Booster Gold #10, when people wrote in asking why Superman didn't recognize the ring.

Cronin included many great pictures with his article, but not the letter in reference. So here it is:

Read Cronin's whole analysis and reasoning (with many, many pictures) at comicbookresources.com.

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The fans and artists of ComicBookResources.com's "The Line It Is Drawn" column keep giving us more Booster Gold and Blue Beetle than DC has in a long time. Take the latest example from last week's column, "When Superhero Movie Casting Goes Wrong!":

This mash-up based on the Big Lebowski was created by Cynthia "theamat" Rodgers and Amanda Rodgers in response to a request by for "John Goodman and Jeff Bridges as Booster Gold and Blue Beetle." I'm pretty sure we can all abide more cool art like this!

Thanks to Russ Burlingame for forwarding me the link to the work. And thanks to Brian Cronin for running "The Line It Is Drawn" each week at goodcomics.comicbookresources.com

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Think you know Booster Gold? Start your week with a quiz and prove it!

Brian Cronin of Comic Book Resources is running a daily series of articles asking his readers to identify artists for comics containing particular characters. Can you guess the artists drawing Booster Gold?

Think fast: answers will be revealed on Wednesday.

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ComicBookResources.com's prolific Brian Cronin (probably best known for his illuminating and long-running Comic Book Legends Revealed series) published an article on the Space Museum yesterday. (Find it here.) It's completely worth a look if you're interested in the future history of the Booster Gold's origin.

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