Released on July 19, 1994: Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #3.

In hindsight, looking at the costume designs in this comic, maybe the reason that time was collapsing on itself in this crisis event was because the DCU had gotten as "Extreme" as any one timeline could stand.

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Released on July 17, 1986: Booster Gold #9.

In which Booster Gold and Skeets (and the Legion of Super-Heroes) foil an attempted presidential assassination.

UPDATE: Our Hero also makes an appearance in this week's Superman #16, an Absolute Power tie-in. Buy this issue and make Skeets happy!

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Released on July 15, 2009: Blackest Night #1.

Blackest Night is a story about heroes coming back from the dead, but it would take the "rebirth" of the entire DCU (in 2016's appropriately named DC Universe Rebirth #1) to actually bring Ted Kord back to life.

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Once upon a time, the Doom Patrol were just another low-rent disrespected super hero team made up of society's cast-off misfits. Then Gran Morrison got their hands on them, and things got weird.

Take, for example, the very first page of Doom Patrol #28:

I love the team introduction here where they are contrasted against the "norms" in the Justice League International and presented as outsiders... in their own book!

(Booster Good is a pretty great choice here for contrast between the haves and have-nots, as no one makes more effort to be accepted by the masses than Michael Jon "Booster" Carter.)

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Today's thing that is bothering me: I don't know who drew the art on the front of the blister card for the McFarlane Toys Super Powers Collection Booster Gold action figure.

Do you know? Can you tell me?

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