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Wednesday, February 24, 2016
While trying to think up something to post here today (given the ongoing lack of new news about our favorite super hero, this keeps getting harder and harder), I discovered that Booster Gold has never appeared in a comic book released on February 24.
That seemed odd to me. So I looked a little further. It turns out there are 44 dates in a calendar year that have never seen a Booster Gold release. Trivia: February 29 has seen the release of a Booster Gold comic, but February 28 has not.
Calendar dates don't fall on the same day of the week every year. A quick visit to Google tells me that it takes 28 years for a leap year calendar to rematch dates to days of the week (though non-leap years repeat sooner). Given that new comics only come out on Wednesday, that's a long time to go to get Booster a shot at every date on the calendar. I guess it's a good thing he's already got February 29 covered.
As for no Booster Gold comic being released on February 24, that doesn't look like it will be changing today. The next opportunity will arrive in 2021. Maybe by then, Booster Gold will have gotten his shot at a "rebirth" of his own.
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Xylob posted on Feb. 24, 2016 at 7:46 PM
Comic book Wednesday is a relatively "new" thing though. That didn't start until the mid-90s.
I can't for the life of me remember what day used to be comic day, but I want to say Thursday.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 24, 2016 at 9:03 PM
Booster's first issue was released to direct market comic book shops on a Tuesday. It wasn't released to newsstands until November 22, a Friday. It's possible that your newsstand put them out earlier. The release date was not standardized as Wednesdays until Diamond Comic Distributors became the monopoly for North American comic book distribution in the mid-late 90s. (While that might be "relatively new" to long time readers like us, 20 years is a long time. That's 2/3 of the history of Booster Gold!)
Herb posted on Feb. 25, 2016 at 12:13 PM
Well the industry pretty much has Marvel to thank for Diamond's monopoly.
It all started when Marvel acquired Heroes World and became their own exclusive distributor.
That left all the other distributors scrambling to get exclusive distribution rights from remaining publishers mainly Diamond and Capital City which squeezed out the small distributors. But even Capital folded eventually.
Due to financial mismanagement by Ron Perelman at Marvel which pushed them into bankruptcy protection, they dumped Heroes World, and by this time Diamond was the only game in town.
Tinuvial posted on Feb. 25, 2016 at 3:10 PM
Sounds like another bit of historical trivia that, in spite of technically being 'trivia', is really quite interesting. I wonder how Diamond managed to get a monopoly. Do they still have that today? Also: how'd they get 'round the anti-trust/monopoly laws?
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 25, 2016 at 6:30 PM
Yes, Diamond still has a functional monopoly. After complaints by some smaller publishers, a U.S. Department of Justice investigation in the late 1990s determined that since Diamond only distributed comic books, they had no monopoly on publishing periodicals (even though by 2000, Diamond controlled the distribution of ALL comic books in the United States). DC and Marvel are apparently satisfied with the current arrangement, so Diamond continues its monopoly, checked only by the rise of digital distribution.
If you're really interested in the history, Tinuvial, you may enjoy this: http://www.delusionalhonesty.com/2011/06/brief-history-of-comics-distribution.html
with a brief timeline here
http://www.comichron.com/comicstimeline.html
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
I swear I found this by accident while surfing ComicsAlliance.com this week:
This image is one of very many risque fanboy-friendly wallpaper calendars downloadable from PortalComic.com. It appears to be a comics-related site, and a little poking around reveals some pretty impressive (and largely NSFW) bad girl art. The site is entirely in Spanish, and I don't speak or read Spanish so I have no idea what is going on over there. However, you'll note that their Booster costume has an old-school high collar, so clearly their heart is in the right place.
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tiggerpete posted on Mar. 10, 2010 at 2:02 PM
which Earth is it that has the gender roles reversed? isn't it like Earth-48 or something?
tiggerpete posted on Mar. 10, 2010 at 2:14 PM
having reviewed a few of the other calenders, they range from interesting to just wrong (see "Iron Woman" for what IMO is the worst)
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Mar. 10, 2010 at 2:47 PM
I thought the same thing about Iron Woman when I first saw her, but then I thought about it. In the right context, it's perfectly reasonable to replace the Uni-beam with Headlights. (And the gender roles reversed world is Earth-11 in the modern 52-verse.)
tiggerpete posted on Mar. 11, 2010 at 4:38 AM
so this is a pinup from Earth-11 that somehow got crossed over to our world (considering heroes in the comic world would probably get stylized drawings made of them, and knowing our Blue and Gold in the JLI days, who's to say one or the other in this world wouldn't come up with the idea of posing together for some crazy scheme?)
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Mar. 11, 2010 at 2:40 PM
Oh, I'm sure that if Booster thought there was money in pin-up calendars featuring Booster Gold, he'd pose non-stop. I don't know how he would get Ted-ette involved, but note how she turns away to hide her belly. Even on Earth-11, Kord is sensitive about her weight.
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