The unexpected Booster Gold appearances just keep coming! Pigeon has alerted me to a Booster Gold shirt found on eBay that uses the final splash page of Dan Jurgens/Rick Burchett art from Justice League America #69 for a whole t-shirt.

Yeah, that's not a great picture, but I was trying to grab a snap from boostergoldirl via instagram.com that I could horizontally flip. (Why is everything backwards on social media these days? Cameras aren't mirrors.) There are better pics on the original eBay listing, so long as eBay keeps them up.

Sublimation t-shirts were all the rage in the early 90s, but I've seen no indication that DC Comics ever authorized such a thing as this. Googling and image searching the label reveal nothing, and no copyright info appears on the shirt itself, so I'm currently categorizing it as a bootleg. A very, very cool bootleg.

Congrats on the find, Pigeon.

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While reading some recently acquired 1997 back issues, I came across a DC Comics house ad for DC Comics Online via AOL. ("Keyword: Chat DC" because that's how the World Wide Web worked back in your parent's day, kids!) The ad includes the cover of Adventures in the DC Universe #1 showcasing the animated Justice League, including Booster Gold. (He's obscured, but he's there.) So I added the ad to the Boosterrific! Advertisements page here.

That wasn't the only ad I spotted while reading back issues. I'd long been aware of this 40-year-old one for subscriptions (featuring Jose Garcia-Lopez art) but had never added it to Boosterrific.com before because it only mentions Booster Gold (twice!) without ever showing him.

from Super Powers Volume 3, #3, November 1986

Oversight corrected.

What do you think, Booster boosters? Should I add this one to the rest of the house ads, even though Booster is unseen? I'm not as opposed to that idea as I once was, but I still think that comics where Booster is mentioned shouldn't be cataloged with the rest. (Who collects books for mere mentions of other characters?) Maybe it's right that I still only include ads where Booster is seen.

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I'm not going to try to convince you that DC's 1993 "Bloodlines" event is great. I'm not even going to try to convince you that it's worth reading. But even the bad events have their fun moments, like this one from Bloodbath #1:

There's no wrong time to quote Star Wars. Though, next time, Booster, you might want to quote someone who doesn't fail at his job.

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As if there was any doubt after the last two issues, today's Action Comics #1098 definitely has plenty of Booster Gold in it, as proven by the issue preview at AIPTComics.com.

Buy this issue and make Skeets happy.

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"Real random Booster sighting." That's how Rob Snow described this screenshot he sent me taken from an Argentine cartoon titled La Huella Del Oro.

"Random" certainly seems to be the right word.

Although the show is not yet available to American audiences (it debuted in Argentina on April 13), there's a trailer for it on the YouTube channel of HBO Max Latinoamérica and Adult Swim LA, which gives no indication that it has anything to do with DC Comics (other than that HBO Max, Adult Swim, and DC are all sister companies). It seems like Booster and Beetle are just in the crowd as easter eggs for viewers in the know.

I don't speak Spanish, so I have to rely on Google to translate the series plot as described on the Latin America version of cartoonnetwork.fandom.com:

Fafner is a mercenary who arrives in a city under attack as its population is being decimated. Amidst a battle of fire and ice, Fafner relentlessly pursues his reward. On his quest to recover fragments of his past, he crosses the lines between good and evil in encounters with sea monsters, bar fights, and gladiators.

That sounds like more sword-and-sandals fantasy than superheroics to me.

While Booster and Beetle might seem to be an obscure choice for background easter eggs outside the DC Universe, it may be that the animators just like the duo. Several years ago Booster booster Ariel Justel let us know that the Justice League International made a big impression in Argentina, leaving a lasting affinity for Blue and Gold among Argentine comic book fans.

Whatever the reason, it's just another example of how you really never know where Booster Gold might turn up next. Thanks, Rob!

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