Over the weekend, I was bagging and boarding some comics I recently acquired, and I discovered a DC house advertisement from 2003 that I had not previously indexed: "DC in Demand 07.03" from July 2003 which includes a "Hot List" of titles specifically including Formerly Known as the Justice League #1.

Honestly, I'd forgotten Empire was ever released by DC.

Now, I'm not particularly surprised that I missed that ad. I was no longer working in a comic shop by July 2003 so I wasn't reading every comic that hit the stands. I wouldn't think to start Boosterrific.com until 2006, and I didn't even begin indexing house advertisements until 2010.

I tell you this not to make excuses but as an admission that I'm fallible. (Just ask J, who has been on a tear lately editing many grammatical errors on this site, some of which have existed for decades.) As complete as I have tried to make Boosterrific.com, there may be — and likely are — many other Booster Gold appearances out that I have overlooked.

So if you happen to spot Booster somewhere unexpected, please don't be shy about bringing it to my attention. I'd rather be told about the same appearance over and over again than miss one.

Thanks in advance, Booster boosters.

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I don't know which page I would have picked as a favorite from Justice League America Annual #7 when I first read it in 1993.

I like the Hitchcockian horror-influenced sequences of Booster Gold's talking head running through pages 5, 6, 7, and 9, but none of those pages quite come together as a whole for me. Gene D'Angelo's garish colors combine with Greg LaRocque's loose layouts to create an almost hallucinogenic environment which bothers me more the longer I look at them.

So instead I think I'll choose page 16, where a powerless, line-swinging Fire saves the JLA's resident idiot, Guy Gardner, on the world's largest jungle gym:

I cannot deny it: I enjoy cheesecake "Good Girl" images of Fire. But I also think this example of lurid, sexually suggestive posing works particularly well, thematically, in this dark horror story in which the alien parasites use lust to manipulate their prey, like a page from Dracula, and the protagonist's runaway id creates monsters, like scenes from Forbidden Planet. Cheesecake images here can inspire similar feelings in the viewer, deepening a connection with the story.

(Unfortunately, this particular issue meanders too much to really take advantage of such atmosphere. Too many subplots, too many pages to fill, too many inkers. But still. It's nice to know that Greg LaRocque was trying.)

Horror and sex, working together since man first discovered Fire.

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Rob Snow alerts me that Booster Gold is in today's Justice League Unlimited #18. And if you recall, two weeks ago, Tony alerted us that Booster Gold also appears in a background panel in today's Superman #37 (or "Legacy 879" if you've been collecting since 1939).

Now, I haven't yet seen the panels from JLU #18, but the Superman panel in question is included in the issue preview at BleedingCool.com, but the important part is this:

Hmm. That looks familiar. Where have I seen that before? Ah, yes, Batman/Superman: World's Finest #20, also drawn by Dan Mora.

I hope this means Mora will be sneaking Booster into the background of more comics. Keep your eyes peeled, Booster boosters!

Thanks, Rob and Tony.

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