For decades, you could pick up a copy of Booster Gold, Volume 1, #1 for nominally more than its 75¢ cover price. However, ever since SyFy announced that they would be making a Booster Gold television show in 2011, the price of his first appearance has skyrocketed.

I frequently see sellers offering slabbed copies for about $400, although you can acquire one in great condition for much closer to $40 if you are patient and don't care to have your comic trapped inside a plastic cocoon. (Booster Gold, Volume 2, #1, on the other hand, is still readily available for about $4!)

Recent confirmation that Warner Brothers is working on a movie about our hero is likely to make these prices keep climbing. Silver Age Marvel comics — always desirable — have gone through the roof since the Marvel Cinematic Universe became all the rage. Although Booster Gold #1 is unlikely to ever be as valuable as Amazing Fantasy #15, Booster would certainly be pleased to learn that his own comics are becoming sought-after collectibles in their own right.

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There can be no more doubt about whether Warner Brothers is working on a Booster Gold movie. Yesterday, in an interview with Lacey Rose of the Hollywood Reporter, Legends of Tomorrow executive producer Greg Berlanti had this to say:

I'm attached to a few films [at Warner Bros.] now, and one, Booster Gold, is a DC property. Zack Stentz, who wrote an episode of Flash last year, just got the job, so he's writing the script now. I'd probably direct that, or I would want to.

Zack Stentz is perhaps better known as the writer of Thor and the new Power Rangers movie. I'm disappointed that Berlanti's associate Andrew Kreisberg, writer of Justice League Unlimited's "The Greatest Story Never Told" and SyFy's 2011 undeveloped Booster Gold television show, appears to be off the project, but I look forward to Stentz's take on our favorite hero.

(This interview confirms information first revealed earlier this week by birthmoviesdeath.com.)

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This past weekend, I discovered that Booster Gold appeared on the cover of the June 2007 issue of Previews.

In case you're unaware, Previews is Diamond Comics Distributors in-house catalog of upcoming comic releases. Diamond distributes the magazine to comic specialty shops so that shop owners can place orders. Many shops make the catalog available to their customers, but it's really an industry tool.

Should this be in the Boosterrific database as a cover appearance? It's really just an ad for Booster Gold Volume 2 #1, and I cover that on the Advertisements page. I must have been aware of this when it was released, and I'm sure I didn't consider it a "cover appearance" then. I'm not sure my opinion has changed.

What do you think? Advertisement or cover appearance?

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Have you been listening to the Silver and Gold Podcast? Their latest is episode 10, covering Booster Gold #5 (in which Booster is nearly killed by someone who stole his name from a Teen Titans villain). You can find links to the podcast at splittingatomsblog.wordpress.com.

(And don't forget that I'm still looking for someone to cosplay Booster Gold and others for the Boosterrific "Meet Booster Gold" video. If you or someone you know could help me spread the word about the many ways in which Booster Gold is the awesomest, please get in touch. More details here.)

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Okay. I've completed my first draft of the "Meet Booster Gold" script. It's more ambitious than I first thought, and I'll need help from some talented cosplayers to get it done right. (I can edit video and sound, but I'll need performers.)

Here's the introduction:

FADE IN

INT. NONDESCRIPT ROOM

BOOSTER GOLD directly addresses the camera in a confessional style. This could be a webcam or a cell phone selfie.

BOOSTER
Are you recording now?

SKEETS
(voice over)
Yes, sir. You may begin when ready.

BOOSTER
Hi, I'm Booster Gold. You may recognize me from my commercials for Soder Cola and Brysler Motors, but I'm not just another pretty face. I'm a bona fide super hero!

CUT TO EXT. STREET CORNER

This begins a series of "man on the street" style interviews as seen on the evenings news. Like Booster, interviewees look directly into camera. These can be shot in any environment.

INTERVIEWEE 1
Booster Gold? He saved my mom from the Royal Flush Gang.

CUT TO DIFFERENT INTERVIEWEE

INTERVIEWEE 2
Yeah, I know him. He was in the Justice League. Good guy.

CUT TO DIFFERENT INTERVIEWEE

INTERVIEWEE 3
He's no Green Lantern.

Of course I go on to cover Booster's mischievous past and time traveling present. I've posted the whole script in the Boosterrific Forum.

My readings have clocked the whole script in at about 2 minutes, but I'm reasonably satisfied that I've covered all the key elements of Booster Gold's character and adventures. Once you've read it, let me know what you think either here, the Forum, or via email at webmaster at Boosterrific.com.

(Especially get in touch if you're interested in being on camera for this. As you can see, I'll need several cosplayers and "actors." Personally, I've always been a behind the scenes person myself.)

Thanks for your support!

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