The Silver and Gold podcast is rolling right along. Last week, they released their 5th episode! Where does the time go?

You can find links to the podcast at splittingatomsblog.wordpress.com.

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We haven't looked in a month, so let's just take a peek at our current list of longest spans between in-continuity Booster Gold appearances, shall we?

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. 244 days between All Star Western #21 and All Star Western #28 (June 2013 to Feb. 2014)
4. 238 days between Stormwatch #12 and All-Star Western #19 (Aug. 2012 to Apr. 2013)
5. 212 days between Bat-Mite #4 and now (November 2015 to present)

Yes, that's right. We've cracked the top five! Whoo-hoo?

How high can we go? The number three position looks totally reachable, especially since there was no sign of Booster in May's solicitations. However, To take the top spot, Booster Gold will have to remain out of action until at least July 6. Can that happen? I sure hope not.

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Have you seen this comic?

According to the DC Comics Database wiki, Booster Gold appears in this British reprint of Adventures of Superman #463. Despite that fact, this book does not appear in the Boosterrific database.

While I do make every effort to be complete, there are some things I don't track. Although I do generally include reprints, I limit those to American reprints published by DC Comics.

There are many countries where someone has released licensed reprints of DC Comics' publications. Many of those reprints have been translated into the readers native languages, such as the Italian release of Booster Gold. It's great that DC is expanding their audience across the globe, and I love to know about them. However, those comics are outside the scope of this website.

So if you happen to come across a Booster Gold reprint in a "foreign" language — including The Queens' English — and you're wondering why you don't see it listed here, now you know.

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Gone with the Wind was a huge smash hit in 1939. Adjusting for inflation, it's still the biggest blockbuster of all time — by 200 million dollars! Isn't it ironic that a movie sympathetic to the antebellum South would be the catalyst for the first African-American to win an Academy Award on February 29, 1940?

Back then, the Academy Awards still tended to reward movies that people had actually seen in theaters. The financial success of Gone with the Wind carried over into eight Oscar wins, including Best Supporting Actress for Hattie McDaniel, the movie's delightful "Mammy."

There's a long-standing, unsubstantiated rumor that Mexican actor Emilio "El Indio" Fernandez was the model for the now-familiar Oscar award first introduced in 1929. However, you can't help but notice the similarity between the famous golden statuette and a certain, golden time-traveler ("The Greatest Model You've Never Heard Of").

Given how much attention has been given lately to the Academy's preference for lily-white talent, ask yourself which is more far-fetched: that the Academy Award of Merit was modeled on a white time-traveler or that it was based on a Mexican? You be the judge.

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Big-time Booster backer The Blot has pointed out that I somehow neglected to show off the new Booster Gold figure available this month. Oops. He's right. Somehow, I completely forgot that there was a new Heroclix figure in stores as of February 10.

WizKids Games latest set of DC Comics Heroclix, "World's Finest," focuses on some classic (read: pre-New 52) characters. Included in the set were new figures for Booster Gold and Blue Beetle! As you can see at this preview on Heroclix.com (which I had bookmarked and promptly forgot about in January, d'oh!), the pair are designed to work together as a team. World's Finest, indeed.

You can see the figure being unboxed in this official WizKids Games video.

Sorry, Blot and everyone else. I'll try to do better next time!

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