52
“Homecoming”
Volume 1, Issue 51, April 2007
Released April 25, 2007
Cover Price: $2.50
Estimated Issue Sales: 94,838
Writers: Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid
Pencillers: Joe Bennett, Keith Giffen
Inkers: Belardino Brabo, Jack Jadson
Colorist: David Baron
Letterer: Rob Leigh
Assistant Editors: Harvey Richards, Jeanine Schaefer
Editor: Michael Siglain
Heroes: Booster Gold, Red Tornado, Rip Hunter
Villains: Mister Mind, T.O. Morrow
Supporting: Skeets II
Setting: T.O. Morrow's Lab, DCU, USA, 21st-century
Cover Description: Gears depicting the earth fall from Red Tornado's head. (No Booster Gold.)
Brief Synopsis: The final secrets behind "52" begin to unravel.
Booster Gold's role in this story:
Featured (Booster Gold plays a prominent role)
Costume Worn: MARK I.v2 power-suit
Issue Notes: Booster Gold's battle against the rogue Skeets II nears an end.
This story has been reprinted in:
52 Omnibus (2012)
52 Volume 4 (2007)
Page 18, panel 2
FASHION ALERT: "Week 51, Day 7." Booster Gold and Rip Hunter return to T.O. Morrow's Rocky Mountain laboratory to save Morrow from Skeets II, who seeks that head of Red Tornado. Booster Gold's costume, for the last time, is shown to include advertising patches. In future appearances, Booster's costume will have reverted to the clean look seen when the Mark I.v2 costume debuted in Infinite Crisis #2.
Page 19, panel 3
SPOILER WARNING!: Reveal
Page 20, panel 4
Booster enters Rip Hunter's latest Time Bubble as the pair travel "back to where it all started." Throughout Booster's history in the DC Universe, it has long been held that no human could survive travel through time via the same means more than once due to overwhelming stress on the body. Since Booster and Hunter certainly arrived in Morrow's laboratory via the Time Bubble, either Rip Hunter has devised a means to constantly modify his method of travel so that each trip occurs through different means, or that restriction on time travel is no longer relevant in the post-Infinite Crisis DC Universe.
Boosterrific Review: In this penultimate chapter of 52, World War III is over and the world (worlds?) can relax again. Or so everyone thinks. At long last the secret of evil Skeets is revealed (in the final pages of this issue, unsettling the blissful denouement that occupies the first two-thirds of the book in much the same way as a final surprise attack lurks at the end of most horror movies).
Boosterrific Rating: Worth Its Weight In Gold.
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