After four years of teases that there's a live-action Booster Gold project in the works somewhere in Hollywood, we still don't know who might actually play our hero on screen.

This past weekend, Russ Burlingame made a list of potentials for ComicBook.com. Burlingame rightly points out that most of the actors we fans would like to see in the role are actually much older than the character himself.

Hollywood has never had a problem with old actors in young parts. Gary Cooper and John Wayne almost always played characters meant to be ten or more years younger than their real-world ages. This is largely a matter of logistics: where are you going to find an actor that has time to both hone his craft and build a widespread fan following by the age of 24?

That said, I have no idea who will be playing Booster Gold. I don't even know who should be playing Booster Gold. I trust most casting directors to be able to find someone I'd never think of. So long as the role doesn't go to Shaquille O'Neal, I think I'll be okay.

Skeets, on the other hand, has to be Martin Freeman.

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Most of you are probably unaware, but Blue Beetle Dan Garrett had his own radio show in 1940. That makes him the Blue Beetle most qualified to participate in a "buddy cop" movie.

That said, I voted for Ted.

Last week's poll question: Which character should costar in the Booster Gold movie? (66 votes)

Today's question isn't data mining. (I've got other systems for that. Bwah-ha-ha!) I just wondered how old Booster Gold's fan base was. And remember, this is for posterity so be honest.

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If you visit your Local Comic Shop today, you'll see that tradition holds true, with releases of books like Grayson Annual and Wonder Woman '77 Special. That's because today is the fifth comic-book release day in the month of September. DC has traditionally reserved these "fifth week" dates for the release of annuals and specials.

One such example is JLA In Crisis Secret Files, released on this date in 1998. Booster Gold doesn't play a very big part of this special. The late '90s were a fallow period for our hero. But any retrospective of Justice League history cannot help but include some Gold, even if only in a background role.

See anything funny about that panel? Booster looks like he's wearing swim briefs!

It's common for characters appearing in one-shot issues to look a little off-model. After all, the artists on these things wouldn't always be familiar with the characters they were drawing.

Prior to this panel, Darryl Banks had only drawn Booster as part of the large crowd attending the funeral of Green Lantern Hal Jordan. In that issue, Booster wore his Mark X armored power-suit.

We'll give Banks a pass for this snafu. Besides, the inker he was working with certainly had no idea what he was doing. It was the first time he'd ever worked on Booster Gold for DC Comics. His name was Norm Rapmund. I wonder whatever happened to that guy?

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Found by Morgenstern on Youtube: New World Comics presents the Death and Resurrection of Superman. Booster Gold shows up at about the 1:36 mark because you can't call it Doomsday without Booster Gold.

I love it. Who needs big budgets when you've got such great story and characters? ("You better get out of here before I mess up the me part of your face.")

Thanks to Morgenstern for passing it along. Bigger thanks to all involved at New World Comics for making it happen in the first place.

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Between Rip Hunter and Michelle Carter, if there's any hero who knows the power of family, it's Booster Gold. So you know when brothers can work together to create some art, it's going to be special.

This Booster Gold commission was created by brothers Brandon and Brian Fraim. You can see more of their work on their website, Fraimworks. (And if you're interested in seeing more of the JLI by the Brothers Fraim, visit Artfully DC, where I first spotted this image.)

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