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Boosterrific.com: The Complete, Annotated Adventures of Booster Gold

It has been 65 Days since Booster Gold last appeared in an in-continuity DCU comic book.

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Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Not Another Booster Gold Appearance

Booster booster Logan wrote me last week to ask if I'd seen the latest (and final) issue of Justice League 3001. He wanted to know if I'd seen this:

© DC Comics

That sure looks like Booster Gold's body in the rubble beside Ice. However, it doesn't make any sense for Booster to be there.

Booster and his pal, Blue Beetle, disappeared from the series after the evil Lady Styx took over the universe in issue #7. The climactic battle, which Booster didn't participate in, took place on Paradise Island, a secret location Booster couldn't have reached. So how could that be him on the ground?

© DC Comics

My theory is that's not Booster, but the body of the evil clone of Wildfire of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Wildfire also has a star on his chest, and appears throughout the issue. (You can see him at the bottom center of the cover above.) I suspect that the issue inker or colorist saw Wildfire's body on the ground surrounded by the reincarnated JLI and mistakenly detailed it as Booster Gold.

I reached out on Twitter to issue writer J.M. DeMatteis to ask if he'd intended to show a dead Booster Gold. This was his response:

I didn't even know it was in there.  (By the way:  I know exactly where Beetle & Booster are. At least in our universe.) @JMDeMatteis

So there we have it. It may look like Booster Gold's costume, but it's not Booster Gold.

Whew.

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