Looking back through some old copies of the DC newsletter, Direct Currents, I re-discovered the original solicitation for the following poster by Dan Jurgens and Rick Burchett.

The poster was solicited to promote the first 1990s overhaul of the Justice League in Justice League Spectacular. The 22" x 28" poster carried a suggested retail price of $5.95. (That's the cost of 2 comic books in 2010! What a bargain!)

Does anyone have a copy of this poster in color? Was it ever released? If you have, please let Boosterrific know.

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I've watched this short video posted by rob52xbhs a dozen times since I discovered it on YouTube. Odette, I know just you feel. Booster just left me for the DCnU. Oh, Booster, how could you?

The video is taken from the movie The Swan Princess and the television series Justice League Unlimited episode "The Greatest Story Never Told" (an episode that just keeps on giving). The music is a stanza from song "Just a Dream" as performed by Sam Tsui and Christina Grimmie (as seen in another video also viewable on YouTube). The sentiment is pure Booster Gold.

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Did you ever play that game where you look at two images and try to find what has been changed between them? DC has.

The internet's inability to identify the girl on the bottom left of the originally released cover for Justice League International, Volume 3, #1 (seen on the left) seems to have inspired a change in the "final cover" (seen on the right). We know from other sources that she's not Wonder Woman, Donna Troy, or Black Canary. Given the fact that she's now invisible, maybe she's Gypsy. The solicitation text provides no hints:

With the growing presence of super beings around the world, the United Nations resolves to create a new group called Justice League International. Batman, Booster Gold, Green Lantern Guy Gardner, August General in Iron, Fire, Ice, Vixen and Rocket Red are charged with promoting unity and trust — but can they reach that goal without killing each other first?

I guess we'll find out when the issue is released on September 7, 2011.

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Russ Burlingame's latest "Gold Exchange" column with Dan Jurgens was posted late last week on Comic Related.com. Unfortunately, this month's column doesn't touch on the biggest Booster Gold news of the month: the impending demise of Booster Gold Volume 2, but it's not without its value.

GX: If he can track chronal energy using the defense department computers, I've got to wonder: can he see the Speed Force? And if so, does the fact that he didn't cross-reference that with chronal residue to find Zoom indicate that the Speed Force maybe doesn't work the same way here?

DJ: Booster has the equipment that can certainly detect and isolate the chronal residue within the speed force, particularly if someone isn't working to hide it.

Booster Gold can see un-obfuscated evidence of time travel in the Speed Force? That's certainly a new and cool (if apparently useless) power.

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Remember 3 weeks ago, when I wrote that mistake-filled blog post about the issue of Booster Gold that tied-into Flashpoint? Well, welcome back. DC appears to have really hit a home run with the Flashpoint event.

DC announced via The Source on Friday that Booster Gold #45 has sold out and would be going back to press in coming weeks. Flashpoint #2 was released a week earlier and also sold out of its initial printing. Does all of this sound familiar? It should, as the exact same scenario happened last month with Booster Gold #44 and Flashpoint #2.

I think I've made my disdain for alternate history stories perfectly clear, but I am going to have to accept that I am in the minority on this. Flashpoint and its tie-ins are doing exceptionally well. No doubt they will make a great springboard for DC's second Explosion or first Heroes Reborn or whatever shenanigans DC is planning to roll out at the Flashpoint conclusion.

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