Do you remember January, 1991? The New York Giants won Super Bowl XXV. Operation Desert Storm began. Vanilla Ice won Favorite New Hip Hop Artist at the American Music Awards. Ah, those were good times. Unless you were Booster Gold.

On this date in 1991, Booster Gold was hunted by the Linear Man, the first of what would come to be recognized as the policemen of history in the DC Universe. Desperate to make Booster pay for his crime of stealing a time machine and returning to the past, the original Linear Man kidnapped and tortured Skeets. Bad cop!

Fortunately for Booster, this attack took place in The Adventures of Superman #476 — that's not a typo, kids: back in the day books kept consecutive numbering for years instead of resetting every few months — so of course Superman got involved and was displaced in time instead of our hero.

The story played out in the "Time and Time Again" storyline over the following month, but Booster Gold had already been rescued by Superman and was too busy leading the Conglomerate and watching Tonya Harding win the U.S. Figure Skating Championships to return the favor. Oh, Booster!

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Last year, I showed you a Booster Gold stuffed bunny available on Etsy.com. It must have been an offer to good to refuse for Booster Gold fan The Blot. He showed off his new purchase last week on Twitter:

It's even more adorable when accompanied by a li'l Skeets bunny!

If you like what you see, you too can order a custom bunny from Catherine Boucher on her Etsy.com site, The Stitchy Button.

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Here's something we haven't seen in a long time: Booster Gold in action by Dan Jurgens and Norm Rapmund.

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Russ Burlingame received this piece of original art — page 6 from Booster Gold, Volume 2, #21, to be specific — as a Christmas present. That's what he gets for being the hardest-working Booster Gold reporter on the Internet! Thanks for sharing, Russ.

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Updating our list of long Booster Gold absences, today marks the 212th day since Booster Gold was last seen in a DCnU comic book. That means the current run has broken into the top 4!

1. 336 days between Superman #124 and Chase #4 (Apr. 1997 to Mar. 1998)
2. 302 days between Martian Manhunter #24 and JLA: Our Worlds At War (Sept. 2000 to July 2001)
3. 238 days between Stormwatch #12 and All-Star Western #19 (Aug. 2012 to Apr. 2013)
4. 212 days between All Star Western #21 and now (June 2013 to present)

It's been a long, long time since we last saw Ted Kord — well over 1,100 days by my count — but as we've heard, he'll be coming back in April. Maybe he'll bring our Booster back with him.

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The final issue of Forever Evil comes out in April. April is three months away. Is there any chance we'll see a particular golden hero in that book?

Last week's poll question: When do you think we will see Booster Gold reappear in a DC comic book? (52 votes)

By now you've no doubt heard that Ted Kord is coming to the DCnU in Future's End #7 (as Vaneta Rogers reported at Newsarama.com last week). If Ted Kord is coming, could Booster Gold be far behind?

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