Friday, August 19, 2016
Klein Strikes Gold in the DC Comics Offices
For the purposes of this website, Todd Klein is known as the man who created the original Booster Gold title logo. In addition to being a great letterer — he's perhaps best known for his work on Neil Gaiman's Sandman — Klein is also a comics fan and historian.
Over on his blog, kleinletters.com, Klein's latest history project involves the 1980s occupants of the DC Comics offices at 666 5th Avenue, New York. This was the time period that Booster Gold was born, and our hero makes an occasional cameo appearance as Klein discusses many of the editors staff artists involved in the production of comics of the era.
In the photo above, you'll see Booster Gold #25 on the shelf behind DC editor Barbara Kesel. Other photos in the 6-part article identify the offices of Booster Gold editors Janice Race and Alan Gold. You'll even find a pic of young Dan Jurgens with his fellow Superman writers.
If you have any interest in the history of DC Comics, you'll find the whole article at kleinletters.com.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Booster Gold Commission by Paris Cullins
Paris Cullins is a fantastic artist who penciled most of the first two years of Blue Beetle's eponymous 1980s adventures. That was prior to the Justice League International, but now we can see what a Cullins' penciled Blue and Gold (and Skeets!) might have looked like thanks to this 2015 sketch commission.
Booster looks to be giving Ted a hand against his rogues gallery. If you like what you see, you can own it! It's currently listed on eBay.com for USD $75.
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Monday, August 15, 2016
Germ Warfare
The latest installment of The Justice League International: Bwah-Ha-Ha Podcast covers Booster Gold's first adventure as a member of the JLI as seen in Justice League Annual #1. This issue notably includes Booster Gold getting to know his new teammate, Black Canary.
You can find the podcast at FireAndWaterPodcast.com.
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Friday, August 12, 2016
I Don't Know If You're Meant to Read into It
Comic fans love a good Easter egg. There has been a lot of speculation why Rip Hunter's real name was revealed to be "Michael" on DC's Legends of Tomorrow. Is that a Booster Gold reference? Inquiring minds want to know!
Fast forward to the 2:48 mark in the video below to hear Andy Behbackht of TVOVermind.com put that question to Darvill himself at Comic Con.
Darvill's reaction to the question reminds me of William Shatner's response to the question "What was the combination?" on a rather in famous Saturday Night Live skit. That's what Comic Con is all about. Gotta love it.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Silver and Gold at Home
The Silver and Gold Podcast has a new home: sngpodcast.wordpress.com. It's there you will find the latest episode discussing Booster Gold Volume 1, #8.
It's important that you don't confuse this new location with sngpodcast.tumblr.com, home of the Sawdust and Gin Podcast, or twitter.com/sngpodcast, which is devoted to the Silver and Gold podcast for discussing NFL football franchises of Oakland and San Francisco. Those would be the sorts of embarrassing mistakes that only a novice time traveler would make.
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