Alert visitors may have noticed that the database of comic books including Booster Gold appearances has now passed 500 issues. This is due to the addition of various Who's Who series of the late 80s to early 90s in which Booster Gold appeared in the background art. If you aren't thrilled to hear that you can now find Booster's appearances in biographical entries for obscure DC characters like Shockwave and Starbreaker, you can just go about your regular business. Otherwise, you'll find the list of non-continuity appearances here.

If you're still reading this far, please note that Boosterrific is still looking to confirm books containing DC house advertisements with Booster Gold. Booster is known to appear in ads in DC published issues with the following cover dates:

• February 1986 (for Booster Gold, V.1, #1),
• May 1991 (for Armageddon 2001),
• August 1992 (for Eclipso, the Darkness Within),
• February 1993 (in an AIDS awareness PSA),
• February 1994 (in another AIDS awareness PSA),
• December 1996 (for DC subscription orders),
• September 2007 (for Booster Gold, V.2, #1)

Rumor also has it that Booster appears in various Who's Who and Millennium house ads from 1988, though this has yet to be verified. Keep an eye out between the panels for Booster Gold and email your discovery to webmaster at Boosterrific.com. If you find an ad in an issue that no one else has reported, you'll certainly get credit for it here at Boosterrific. Thanks, readers.

P.S.: There have been a few problems with the database today that have affected both the blog and the polls. (And hopefully nothing else.) Everything should now be under control.

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Russ Burlingame's latest interview with Dan Jurgens is up at Newsarama.com. This time around we get the dirt on Booster's "Gladys" prank, at least from the viewpoint of Jurgens, who admittedly has as much right to retcon Booster's past as anybody. We'll just have to say what Giffen and DeMatteis have to say about it once they return to the character that they originally transformed from a selfish soloist into a loveable laughingstock.

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It's the zombie series that just wouldn't die! Blackest Night Director's Cut is released today. Advertised to contain the scenes that didn't make the final cut, this 80-page giant will presumably include the missing sections that make the series readable explain why we didn't see Blue Beetle II resurrected alongside Monarch I. Sorry, I don't mean to be snarky, but, gee whiz, I feel like I wasted a lot of money on this never ending series for so little reward.

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J.M. DeMatteis, once and future writer for Booster Gold, gave a recent interview to iFanboy.com about, among other things, his upcoming return to writing for the character of Booster Gold. Perhaps the most appealing information from the interview is the revelation that the Justice League International will be making a guest appearance in an upcoming episode of Batman: the Brave and the Bold next season on Cartoon Network. Super, super sweet.

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Last week DC sprung the news that Booster would be appearing in a third book this summer: Time Masters: Vanishing Point by writer/artist Dan Jurgens. Though the book is a mini-series tied into the return of Batman, it's great to know that Jurgens will still be involved with the life of Booster Gold even though he is leaving the series. Read what Jurgens has to say about the series at Newsarama.com.

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