Gone with the Wind was a huge smash hit in 1939. Adjusting for inflation, it's still the biggest blockbuster of all time — by 200 million dollars! Isn't it ironic that a movie sympathetic to the antebellum South would be the catalyst for the first African-American to win an Academy Award on February 29, 1940?

Back then, the Academy Awards still tended to reward movies that people had actually seen in theaters. The financial success of Gone with the Wind carried over into eight Oscar wins, including Best Supporting Actress for Hattie McDaniel, the movie's delightful "Mammy."

There's a long-standing, unsubstantiated rumor that Mexican actor Emilio "El Indio" Fernandez was the model for the now-familiar Oscar award first introduced in 1929. However, you can't help but notice the similarity between the famous golden statuette and a certain, golden time-traveler ("The Greatest Model You've Never Heard Of").

Given how much attention has been given lately to the Academy's preference for lily-white talent, ask yourself which is more far-fetched: that the Academy Award of Merit was modeled on a white time-traveler or that it was based on a Mexican? You be the judge.

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Big-time Booster backer The Blot has pointed out that I somehow neglected to show off the new Booster Gold figure available this month. Oops. He's right. Somehow, I completely forgot that there was a new Heroclix figure in stores as of February 10.

WizKids Games latest set of DC Comics Heroclix, "World's Finest," focuses on some classic (read: pre-New 52) characters. Included in the set were new figures for Booster Gold and Blue Beetle! As you can see at this preview on Heroclix.com (which I had bookmarked and promptly forgot about in January, d'oh!), the pair are designed to work together as a team. World's Finest, indeed.

You can see the figure being unboxed in this official WizKids Games video.

Sorry, Blot and everyone else. I'll try to do better next time!

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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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Booster Gold isn't the sort to sit idly by and wait for DC to get around to promoting him again. He'll take matters into his own hands as he tells you who the best character in comics is: this guy!

This commission was drawn by Darren Roche. Despite publishing own his independent comic, Roche still has time to take commissions of Booster Gold doing Booster Gold-y things. Like giving us a thumbs up and giving us a thumbs up while dressed as BatDad. (If you don't know what BatDad is, take a gander at Youtube.com.)

You can find more of Roche's art on DeviantArt.com under the pseudonym cerebraleye.

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Did you pick up the Bat-Mite trade on Wednesday? If not, what are you saving your money for? It certainly isn't for Booster Gold comics, because DC isn't making those.

May solicitations were revealed earlier this week. If you read the previous paragraph, you can guess what that means: no new Gold in sight.

While Booster doesn't look to be having any new adventures in May, he will be returning in reprints of some of our old favorites. DC will be re-releasing trades of 52 Book One and Superman: Panic in the Sky, both collecting comics published about 10 or 24 years ago, respectively.

Maybe DC has a point. Why should they work on making new Booster Gold comics when they already have a back catalog of great stories to sell to today's kids too young to remember the good old days? Kids still read comics, right?

You can find the whole list of DC's solicitations at Newsarama.com.

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