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Imagine: a website that promotes a market-driven comic book character selling out to promote a third property, taking cash in exchange for becoming mouthpiece to Madison Avenue copywriters. Booster Gold would jump at the chance!

While I'm thinking over this offer, you can find me enjoying the The Casino at the Empire in London. They really do have the loosest slots!

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Whenever Mr. Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite get together, things have a tendency to get out of hand. For instance, take their meeting in Superman and Batman: World's Funnest, released 13 years ago today.

When Mxy accidentally kills Batman, Bat-Mite retaliates by killing Superman. Things only go downhill from there. Soon they've destroyed the Phantom Zone, Earth-2, Earth-C-Minus, the World Trade Center (seriously), Jack Kirby's Fourth World, and Rip Hunter's Time Sphere and the Blue Beetle's Bug (both on the same page!). Even Booster Gold can't avoid the destruction.

That tiny panel behind Mxy's hat above is Booster's (and Skeet's) only appearance in this issue, but don't let that deter you from enjoying this parody of traditional DC Comics stories throughout the ages, assuming you can find it in the back-issue bin of your Local Comic Shop.

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If you ring the doorbell of Rip Hunter's Arizona lab while trick-or-treating tonight, Skeets will answer the door wearing Charlie Brown's It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown ghost costume with too many eye-holes. Skeets will then politely complement you on the originality of your costume and let you grab as many Smarties as you like from its plastic pumpkin bucket. Skeets doesn't care how many you take because it doesn't eat candy.

Last week's poll question: What kind of candy would Booster Gold give out to trick-or-treaters? (44 votes)

I don't dress up for Halloween anymore, but I am wearing my Booster Gold t-shirt today. Does that count as dressing as Booster Gold for Halloween?

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Yesterday on Twitter, Adam Stacks (@stax1138) stood up and spoke truth to power!

125 days since #BoosterGold has appeared in @DCComics and I am not okay with that! @boosterrific @jgilbertjr @friendhero #WeWantBoosterGold

— Adam Stacks (@Stax1138) October 29, 2013

Tell it like it is, Adam! Four months with no Booster Gold? Who is okay with that?

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Eighty-four years ago today, the New York Stock Exchange experienced a then-record volume of transactions (16,410,030 shares traded). The aftermath of the market crash launched the world into the Great Depression.

While the Black Tuesday crash did mean the ruin of many a fortune, anyone who knew their history and had access to a time machine could make quite a few bucks by buying while the market was historically low. Does that sound like any Corporate Crusaders we know?

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