It has been 136 Days since Booster Gold last appeared in an in-continuity DCU comic book.

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Wednesday, February 12, 2025
This Day in History: Clarrrrrk Kennnnnnnt
On this date in 2020, in the pages of Superman: Heroes #1, Booster Gold was among the first to tell the world that Superman had always secretly been...
Everyone in the DCU would know that Superman was Clark Kent for almost two full years... until Lex Luthor and Manchester Black forced most to forget that fact in Action Comics #1050. In that issue, Batman makes it clear that "the Justice League, reservists, and the Titans all have psychic defenses set up by Martian Manhunter," so we can be sure that Booster Gold still remembers.
The real question is how he knew something that everyone would forget.
The answer to that, I think, is that the psychic suggestion that forced this forgetfulness influences living minds to ignore any evidence to the contrary that Superman and Clark Kent are the same person, but it does not actually erase that evidence. Considering how widespread the psychic suggestion is, it is probable everyone just stopped talking about it.
Therefore, the historians of the 25th century, unaffected directly by the psychic effect, will learn from primary sources exactly when Superman revealed his identity, and a young Michael "Booster" Carter will be taught exactly when Superman revealed his secret identity without realizing that the information was ever again restricted.
See? No retcon is necessary. There's nothing to see here. Move along.
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Wednesday, January 22, 2025
This Day in History: Cameos Everywhere
New comics released on January 22, 2020:
Booster Gold had small parts in those, and, as you can read in the Boosterrific Blog post for that day, they were mostly unexpected. But at least he had a part.
Turns out that it's easier to make surprise cameo appearances in other characters' books when you actually exist in their shared universe.
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Friday, July 19, 2024
This Day in History: Peak Chromium Age
Released on July 19, 1994: Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #3.
In hindsight, looking at the costume designs in this comic, maybe the reason that time was collapsing on itself in this crisis event was because the DCU had gotten as "Extreme" as any one timeline could stand.
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Wednesday, July 17, 2024
This Day in History: First Responders
Released on July 17, 1986: Booster Gold #9.
In which Booster Gold and Skeets (and the Legion of Super-Heroes) foil an attempted presidential assassination.
UPDATE: Our Hero also makes an appearance in this week's Superman #16, an Absolute Power tie-in. Buy this issue and make Skeets happy!
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Monday, July 15, 2024
This Day in History: Blackest Night
Released on July 15, 2009: Blackest Night #1.
Blackest Night is a story about heroes coming back from the dead, but it would take the "rebirth" of the entire DCU (in 2016's appropriately named DC Universe Rebirth #1) to actually bring Ted Kord back to life.
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