Thursday, May 15, 2025
New Release: Fire and Ice When Hell Freezes
I hadn't expected to see Booster Gold in my Local Comic Shop this week, so imagine my surprise when SLW dropped into the comments of Monday's post to alert us that Booster can be seen in Fire and Ice: When Hell Freezes Over #2. Kinda.
I wonder if that Booster Gold doll is made by the same manufacturer as the one we saw in Booster Gold Volume 2 #17:
And like SLW, I also wonder how anyone could be making Booster Gold plushies in a continuity that doesn't remember Booster Gold ever existed? Oh, well. Probably best not to think too much about it.
Thanks, SLW.
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Monday, May 12, 2025
Cheesed Off
Spotted on Reddit: this custom Booster Gold action figure with flat top!
I love the hair style. It's got a comic book precedent, too; Booster did indeed have a flat top-adjacent crew cut in the original Booster Gold #13 (perhaps not so coincidentally while the original Top Gun was in theaters).
You can see a few more pictures at r/customactionfigures
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Friday, May 9, 2025
Buried in the Substacks
I'm on record as no fan of social media, but without reddit, I never would have discovered that Superman scribe Joshua Williamson has a substack.com account, "Joshua Williamson's Super Scary Newsletter," where on "Superman Day" April 18 he posted the following:
I've thought about All In Special waaay too much, and I wish I had a clue about what he thinks I should think is a clue. That the logo has changed on the 30th-century Legion Flight Ring? That the Justice League forgets Booster exists? That Skeets has gone missing? That in one story Booster Gold is wearing his 1980s collar and in the other story he isn't? A little less ambiguity would be helpful, please; I can only think so much.
You'll note that this doesn't actually say that Booster Gold will be in Superman #28, but it almost does. So I think Booster boosters should be prepared to pick up Superman #28 when it comes out on July 23.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2025
New Old Release: DC Events Zero Hour
Are you too young to remember 1994? If so, DC has the book for you this week! DC Finest: Events: Zero Hour: Crisis in Time, Part Two collects the second half of that summer's giant crossover event that reset the timeline of the DC Universe. Most importantly for Booster boosters, that includes Zero Hour #2, #1, and #0. (Yes, the five-issue series counted backwards, a gimmick DC would reuse a decade later for Countdown / Countdown to Final Crisis.)
Also, Booster Gold was in an ad for All In Saga in the print edition (but not the digital release) of this past weekend's DC All In 2025 FCBD Special Edition. I did not pick up a copy for myself (oops), so I'm hoping it will show up again in this week's books. (Otherwise, if any Booster booster can get me a scan of that page, please get in touch.)
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Tuesday, May 6, 2025
My Mistake: Call Her by Her Name
I have an apology to make: Boosterrific.com has had some data about Booster Gold wrong for years. Specifically, I have failed to identify Booster's mother's first name as "Ellen."
Mrs. Carter has never been named in any story, so I had always acted as though she had never been given a name. But somehow I totally overlooked the "Known Relatives" section of the loose-leaf format Who's Who in the DC Universe #2, which clearly says "Ellen."
I cannot explain why I've overlooked that all these years. I've certainly had this volume since, well, probably since it came out in 1990. (I didn't buy all every loose-leaf Who's Who at the time; some I picked up some later. Maybe this was one of the latter.) Its text is attributed to the character's creator Dan Jurgens, who I would certainly trust to give her a name.
I can only guess that once upon a time I decided that Who's Who entries weren't canon. That seems an antiquated notion in this modern era of "everything is in continuity somewhere." In any event, it's well past time I recognized it throughout Boosterrific.com.
Big thanks to Pigeon for drawing my attention to this mistake so that I could correct it.
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