Writes Joe C.:

Another Booster Gold sighting(s)!!!! Upper deck did it again and I believe there are at least 30 different Booster Gold cards. Check out Upper Deck "Inspirations: The World of DC". I also see there is a Booster Gold on the Justice league Homage art card, undoubtedly more in this set.

Joe's right again. The 2026 Upper Deck Inspirations: The World of DC trading card set debuted earlier this month, and Booster (without Skeets) is card 13 in the Base Set of 90 cards.

As you can see, the card reuses Dan Jurgens cover art from Booster Gold Volume 2, #11.

The back of the card credits Jurgens for cover art, though the issue credits both Jurgens and Norm Rapmund, and the signature of colorist Brian Miller of Hi-Fi Designs, clearly visible on the comic, has been erased from the card. Also uncredited on the card is Chuck Dixon, who wrote the issue, including Booster's pulled quote.

(And since I'm picking at nits: "Gold Star" should be one word. Just sayin'.)

As you may recall from the last time Joe called our attention to an Upper Deck Booster Gold card (all the way back in June), it's Upper Deck's practice to make multiple versions of this card. At least 33 versions, in fact.

In order of increasing rarity:

1. Base Set (2 per pack)
2. Bronze Parallel (1 in 2 packs)
3. Silver Parallel (1 in 4 packs)
4. Gold Parallel (1 in 6 packs)
5. Blue Parallel (1 in 12 packs)
6. Pearlescence Parallel (1 in 12 packs)
7. Matte Foil Bronze Parallel (1 in 30 packs)
8. Matte Foil Silver Parallel (1 in 40 packs)
9. Matte Foil Gold Parallel (1 in 60 packs)
10. Creator Autograph Parallel (1 in 60 packs)
11. Matte Foil Blue Parallel (1 in 120 packs)
12. Patterned Foil Purple Parallel (499 per print run)
13. Patterned Foil Green Parallel (399 per print run)
14. Patterned Foil Red Parallel (299 per print run)
15. Matte Foil Bronze Spectrum Parallel (249 per print run)
16. Bronze Spectrum Parallel (199 per print run)
17. Patterned Foil Bronze Spectrum Parallel (199 per print run)
18. Silver Spectrum Parallel (99 per print run)
19. Patterned Foil Silver Spectrum Parallel (99 per print run)
20. Matte Foil Silver Spectrum Parallel (65 per print run)
21. Patterned Foil Gold Spectrum Parallel (49 per print run)
22. Matte Foil Gold Spectrum Parallel (35 per print run)
23. Gold Spectrum Parallel (25 per print run)
24. Creator Autograph Gold Spectrum Parallel (25 per print run)
25. Patterned Foil Blue Spectrum Parallel (15 per print run)
26. Pearlescence Spectrum Silver Parallel (15 per print run)
27. Creator Autograph Blue Spectrum Parallel (15 per print run)
28. Matte Foil Blue Spectrum Parallel (5 per print run)
29. Blue Spectrum Parallel (1 per print run)
30. Printing Plates Parallel Cyan (1 per print run)
31. Printing Plates Parallel Magenta (1 per print run)
32. Printing Plates Parallel Yellow (1 per print run)
33. Printing Plates Parallel Black (1 per print run)

But that's not all! Booster Gold (without Skeets) is also on card HA-4, which features the Dan Jurgens cover of Justice League America #61, and card HA-20, which features the Kevin Maguire cover of Formerly Known as the Justice League #1. Those are each available in the following editions:

1. Homage Art (1 in 10 packs)
2. Homage Art Embossed Parallel (1 in 100 packs)
3. Homage Art Maximum Gloss Parallel (1 in 480 packs)
4. Homage Art Silver Spectrum Parallel (99 per print run)
5. Homage Art Gold Spectrum Parallel (25 per print run)
6. Homage Art Gold Spectrum Parallel (10 per print run)
7. Homage Art Printing Plates Parallel Cyan (1 per print run)
8. Homage Art Printing Plates Parallel Magenta (1 per print run)
9. Homage Art Printing Plates Parallel Yellow (1 per print run)
10. Homage Art Printing Plates Parallel Black (1 per print run)

Thanks again, Joe.

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Once upon a time, the world-famous (and well-named) animation mogul Walter "Walt" Disney had a dream: to build a tourist trap for children that would drain their parent's bank accounts. That dream came true on July 17, 1955.

It was not an easy road from dream to reality. Disney pushed to open his-land exactly one year and one day after construction began, but legend has it that the new park wasn't quite ready for the spotlight. Among Disney fans, the event has long been called "Black Sunday."

What was supposed to be an invitation-only affair was crashed by thousands of guests with counterfeit $1 tickets. Fresh asphalt melted in the blistering heat, rides broke down, the park ran out of food and water, and the riverboat started to sink. (It's probably a good thing that audio-animatronic figures weren't added to the park until 1963 or Disney may have been looking at a real Westworld scenario.)

Disney's authorized ABC broadcast from the day's events did its best to hide the flaws from the historical record, so to really separate truth from legend, you probably had to be there to see for yourself.

While that photo from the Los Angeles Examiner makes the new park look, um, mickey mouse, it definitely could have been worse. According to yesterland.com, that "boat" was the not-yet-open Chicken of the Sea® Pirate Ship Restaurant attraction. By August, it would be selling tuna salads, tuna sandwiches, and tunaburgers. One can only imagine the smell of tuna wafting over the spinning tea cups in the adjacent Mad Tea Party during a long, hot Fantasyland summer.

Definitely not everything was better in the good ol' days.

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Superman: Action Comics by Dan Jurgens Omnibus Vol. 2 is now available at, well, I'm not sure exactly. Maybe your Local Comic Shop. More probably your Local Book Store. I mean, the thing is big, 736 pages big. With a $100 cover price, that comes out to just over 13¢ per page.

You'll be getting a lot of Booster Gold for your buck. This hardcover is advertised to reprint 29 comic books between Action Comics #976 and #1053 plus The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special.* Booster Gold appears in 9 of those. That's about 31% pure Gold. Enjoy!

*Technically, The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special isn't an Action comic. The "death" actually occurs in Superman #75, so if it was up to me, I'd have titled this Superman and Action Comics by Dan Jurgens Omnibus Vol. 2. But I'm sure they had their reasons; DC does love their colons.

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Noah has pointed us towards an x.com post from @homeofdcu that writes

David Jenkins has been attached to Booster Gold as a showrunner and executive producer. This would indicate that DC Studios picked up his pilot script for the series.

To substantiate their report, Home of DCU directs readers to the website of the Writers Guild of America (directories.wga.org), where I grabbed this screenshot:

Looks like one step closer. That's pretty cool. Thanks for the good word, Noah.

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Flipping through some issues of 2007's Countdown earlier this week made me think about Daniel Carter, who was teased in a "DC Nation" column as joining the cast of the soon-to-be-launched second Booster Gold series. So I sat down to write a character bio spotlight for Booster Gold's ancestor, but when I looked back at my archive, it turns out I already had one.

Here it is again, as originally presented in February 2019:

The life of any comic book hero would be a lonely one if not for the many characters who have made up their supporting cast. Just as Superman has Lois Lane and Batman has Alfred, Booster Gold has also shared his adventures with quite a few people over the years. Today we look at one of those, Daniel Carter.

After a gruesome injury ruined his promising football career, Daniel Carter had became stuck in an unfulfilling job as Evergreen Insurance Company's fifth-best term-life salesman. He dreamed of being a super hero and reclaiming his lost glory. Perhaps it was that dream — or maybe it was fate — that lured him to Booster Gold's sparsely attended funeral in 52 #18.

Daniel was completely unaware that Michael Jon "Booster Gold" Carter was his descendant until Skeets told him the truth. Unfortunately for Daniel, that was the only truth Skeets told him (52 #19).

Skeets wasn't Skeets at all, but the villainous Mr. Mind in disguise. Fortunately for Daniel, Rip Hunter was already aware of Mr. Mind's schemes. Hunter enlisted Daniel to become the second Carter to don the mask of Supernova, world-famous super hero. Together with faked-his-own-death Booster Gold, Daniel defeated Mr. Mind and saved the multiverse (52 #52). Daniel Carter's dreams had come true!

Afterwards, Booster and Daniel became roommates (Booster Gold Volume 2, #1). Though Daniel meant well, he was also rather stupid. He was often left behind while Booster was out adventuring. This made it easy for Booster's ne'er-do-well father to steal the Supernova costume and use it for evil (Booster Gold Volume 2, #2). It would also present the opportunity for Daniel to meet his future wife, reporter Rose Levin, when she came snooping into Booster Gold's personal life (Booster Gold, Volume 2, #3).

Rip Hunter would eventually recover the Supernova costume, and Daniel would continue to play the role of hero for Rose. He traveled through time to find his wife the perfect gift — and only accidentally gave longtime Justice League foe Starro the Conqueror the ability to conquer all history (Booster Gold, Volume 2, #13). He would redeem himself by protecting Rose from a maurading Black Lantern Blue Beetle in Booster Gold, Volume 2, #27.

Supernova hasn't been seen since Flashpoint, but so long as Booster Gold is still around, Daniel and Rose have to be out there somewhere.

Other People in Booster Gold's Neighborhood:

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