Once upon a time, the world-famous (and well-named) animation mogul Walter "Walt" Disney had a dream: to build a tourist trap for children that would drain their parent's bank accounts. That dream came true on July 17, 1955.

It was not an easy road from dream to reality. Disney pushed to open his-land exactly one year and one day after construction began, but legend has it that the new park wasn't quite ready for the spotlight. Among Disney fans, the event has long been called "Black Sunday."

What was supposed to be an invitation-only affair was crashed by thousands of guests with counterfeit $1 tickets. Fresh asphalt melted in the blistering heat, rides broke down, the park ran out of food and water, and the riverboat started to sink. (It's probably a good thing that audio-animatronic figures weren't added to the park until 1963 or Disney may have been looking at a real Westworld scenario.)

Disney's authorized ABC broadcast from the day's events did its best to hide the flaws from the historical record, so to really separate truth from legend, you probably had to be there to see for yourself.

While that photo from the Los Angeles Examiner makes the new park look, um, mickey mouse, it definitely could have been worse. According to yesterland.com, that "boat" was the not-yet-open Chicken of the Sea® Pirate Ship Restaurant attraction. By August, it would be selling tuna salads, tuna sandwiches, and tunaburgers. One can only imagine the smell of tuna wafting over the spinning tea cups in the adjacent Mad Tea Party during a long, hot Fantasyland summer.

Definitely not everything was better in the good ol' days.

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Superman: Action Comics by Dan Jurgens Omnibus Vol. 2 is now available at, well, I'm not sure exactly. Maybe your Local Comic Shop. More probably your Local Book Store. I mean, the thing is big, 736 pages big. With a $100 cover price, that comes out to just over 13¢ per page.

You'll be getting a lot of Booster Gold for your buck. This hardcover is advertised to reprint 29 comic books between Action Comics #976 and #1053 plus The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special.* Booster Gold appears in 9 of those. That's about 31% pure Gold. Enjoy!

*Technically, The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special isn't an Action comic. The "death" actually occurs in Superman #75, so if it was up to me, I'd have titled this Superman and Action Comics by Dan Jurgens Omnibus Vol. 2. But I'm sure they had their reasons; DC does love their colons.

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Noah has pointed us towards an x.com post from @homeofdcu that writes

David Jenkins has been attached to Booster Gold as a showrunner and executive producer. This would indicate that DC Studios picked up his pilot script for the series.

To substantiate their report, Home of DCU directs readers to the website of the Writers Guild of America (directories.wga.org), where I grabbed this screenshot:

Looks like one step closer. That's pretty cool. Thanks for the good word, Noah.

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