Speed Force

Cover Description: Kid Flash (Wallace West) and Flash (Avery Ho) run through the Speed Force. (No Booster Gold.)

Brief Synopsis: Flash and Kid Flash continue to investigate sinister goings on seemingly related to the Symphonee music app.

Booster Gold's role in this story:
Supporting (Booster Gold plays a lesser role)

Costume Worn: MARK I.v2 power-suit

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MEET THE PRESS: Booster Gold crashes a televised business news report to announce his tie-in sponsorship with the Symphonee Music Fest (a music festival sponsored by the Symphonee music app). The interrupted news report detailed the potential buyout of Ticketsorcerer, presumably a ticket sales and distribution company akin to Ticketmaster, by Stellmoor Industries, a corporation that buys other companies then dismantles them, selling the parts for a greater profit. Stellmoor Industries' most famous acquisition was Queen Industries, purchased in Green Arrow volume 5 #17 (2013).

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Teen Titan Roundhouse is revealed to be an enthusiastic Booster Gold fan. (Previously unknown, this revelation is coincidentally convenient to the plot. More on that on the next page.)

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PRODUCT PLACEMENT: Booster promotes a "one-of-a-kind collector's cup" will be available exclusively to attendees of Symphonee Music Fest. As shown, the large cup has the initials "BG" on its side and a tiny statue of Booster standing beside the Symphonee logo on the lid. The cup also comes with a code to unlock a "rare" digital fighter in the Beastly Biohazard fighting video game. (DC Comics has used this promotional strategy to much success, selling out printings of 2021's Batman/Fortnite: Zero Point to buyers eager to unlock characters in the Fortnite video game.)

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Roundhouse's newly revealed desire for Booster's cup (or, more specifically, the digital code sticker on the cup — hence the title of this story) will motivate him to get caught up in the action of the main story. That elevates Booster's brief appearance in this issue from a simple cameo to a supporting role (and makes the "collector's cup" a genuine Hitchcockian McGuffin, or an object whose only intrinsic value is as a plot device).