Writes Joe C.:

Booster gold sighting again! Yes, Upper deck is still at it, adding more Booster Gold cards. This time it's Fleer Throwbacks 1992-93 DC Edition. Card #24 is Booster with several parallels in this set. Check it out.

Joe's right again. Upper Deck, which owns Fleer, has released the Fleer Throwbacks 1992-93 DC Edition exclusively as Upper Deck e-Packs®, which are Upper Deck's registered trademark version of NFTs. (Although US trademark serial number 86843917, registered June 20, 2017, doesn't call them Non-Fungible Tokens. It calls them "digital trading cards in the nature of multimedia software recorded on magnetic media featuring sports and entertainment." So they're that.)

The point being that you can "own" Base Set, Red Parallel, Orange Parallel (limited to 392), Yellow Parallel (limited to 192), Green Parallel (limited to 92), Blue Parallel (limited to 25), Purple Parallel (1-of-1), and Print Plate (1-of-1) variants of card 24 Booster Gold, but you can't hold any of them in your hand.

For those of us who struggle with the concept of "owning" digital assets, there is some good news. Anyone buying a bunch of 3-card e-Pack®s chasing those rarer variants is sure to end up with a bunch of duplicates. Which is great! You can combine 5 copies of the same Base Set card into a single Teal Parallel that you can convert into a physical card that Upper Deck will actually mail you through old-fashioned snail mail. Before you redeem that digital card, you might want to know that 10 identical digital Teal Parallel cards can be converted into a single Black Parallel card which can also be made real.

Thanks to friend of the blog The Blot, I can show you what those cards look like:

Unlike the recent Upper Deck cards, the artists are uncredited. The text would lead you to believe that it was all taken from Justice League America #65, but that's only the source of the attributed quote written by Dan Jurgens. The itself art is actually by Rod Whigham and Jose Marzan from "Time and Chance!" from Justice League Quarterly #10.

As seems to always be the case with these Upper Deck sets, Booster appears on a team card, too. The Golden Moments Achievement card GMA-8 makes a digital asset from the cover of Justice League America #69. You can only get that one by redeeming 1 copy each of the 10-card Rookie Sensations subset (RS-1 through RS-10).

I think that's all the Booster Gold cards, but the only way to be sure is to be one of the first 92 people to collect all 30 cards in the Red Parallel set, all 30 cards in the Teal Parallel set, all 10 cards in the All-Stars subset, all 10 cards in the Team Leaders subset, all 10 cards in the Eclipso: The Darkness Within subset, all 10 cards in the Death of Superman subset, all 10 cards in the Knightfall subset, all 10 cards in the Rookie Sensation subset, all 30 cards in the Orange Parallel set, and all 30 cards in the Yellow Parallel set and redeem them all for a complete 10-card Golden Moments Achievements subset and then redeem those for two sketch cards. There's no telling what characters artists will draw on those sketch cards. Why not a Booster Gold?

Joe, we've got to get you another hobby. You're going to bankrupt yourself chasing all these cards.

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Breaking news! Booster Gold screenwriter/showrunner David Jenkins posted Friday to his account on Threads.com:

"My Booster Gold won't be moving forward.
Can't improve on Mahershala's lovely statement so I'll just apply it here as well."

Jenkins linked to a Mahershala Ali interview with GQ.com in which Ali appears to have specifically called out Marvel Studios for canceling his Blade movie reboot:

"For whatever reason, that project is not for me. If they wanted to do it, we would've done it. So I have to move on … Again, you had me under contract, they have billions of dollars, if they wanted to do the movie, we would’ve done the movie. So we’re not doing the movie … But I feel ready to move on from the Blade questions. Those questions are for them. They didn’t want to do it, so they should answer that question."

We can all read between the lines here: It was the studio's decision to reverse course on the project. I'm in no position to know, but I wouldn't be surprised if either or both of the dismal performance of Supergirl and the contentious (and debt-laden) Warner Bros/Paramount merger were the roadblocks here. Jenkins being a vocal opponent of the merger probably didn't endear him to studio executives, either. Movie-making is a for-profit business, and sometimes the timing is just wrong.

Of course, it's also important to realize that Jenkins is only lamenting the end of "his" Booster Gold. Until Warner Bros firmly closes it, the door remains open that James Gunn and company could yet take our hero in a different direction.

Someone or other has been trying to get Booster Gold into your television set or movie theater since 1991, and this is the closest we've gotten yet. I'd say even considering this setback, we're still making progress.

Thanks to the many of you who made sure we saw the sad news. (Judging by how many emails I got, I may have been the last to know.) Try to enjoy your weekend.

UPDATE:

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The premise of this series of "My Favorite Pages" posts is that I pick the page I like most from each comic book that features a significant appearance by Booster Gold in the chronological order they were published. I started in 2022 with Booster Gold #1, and now, a long four years later, I have reached Justice League America #87.

The very best thing I can say about Justice League America #87 is that it is a comic, and Booster Gold is in it.

And if I have to pick a "favorite" page... oh, how about page 2? It's all downhill from there.

I always say that the "Extreme Justice" era (1994-1996) is one of my favorite Booster Gold runs because of writer Dan Vados. But I always forget about Marc Campos' art. I think my brain tries to protect me with selective amnesia.

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Today is the fifth Wednesday in the month of July, so as is usual for DC Comics, the books being released today are mostly one-shots and annuals. Among them is Superman Annual Year One Thousand #1, which promises to finally spill the beans about what Superman has been up to since wining the King Omega Tournament.

We already learned in last week's Action Comics #1100 that Booster Gold will save Superman at the end of time, so the question this week is whether any of that will be seen in Superman Annual Year One Thousand. Find out by visiting your Local Comic Shop.

UPDATE: Coin comments confirmation that Booster's in there. (Thanks, Coin!) So buy this issue and make Skeets happy.

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