Today marks the negative 417th birthday of Jon Michael "Booster" Carter, born this day in the year 2442.

Congratulations, Booster!

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Writes Eskana:

I have a bit of a Booster Christmas present for you... although not technically a Booster sighting. I have a large pile of to-read books, and the next one was Too Many Curses by A. Lee Martinez. I was just flipping it open when what to my wondr'ing eyes did appear but Booster Gold in the book dedication! The book is a light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek fantasy book, no connection to our Corporate Crusader, but it's nice to know that the author is part of our Booster-loving community. Cheers and Merry Christmas!

Eskana kindly sent a screenshot of the page for reference, and when I looked up the book, originally released in 2013, on Amazon.com, I found the exact page included in the Kindle preview:

Cool! Thanks, Eskana. It just goes to show that we never know where our hero will turn up next.

(If you probably saw this post with a December 29 date in the header, no, you're not going crazy. I accidentally doubled up posts for Dec 29. This was supposed to go out later this week, but since I already released it, I've just back-dated this post one day so that Booster's annual birthday post can stand alone. Because you're only negative 417 once!)

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Look, I could beat around the bush, but is there really any suspense about what will be my favorite page of 1992's Justice League America #69?

Uh-oh, Booster.

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Justice League Task Force #37 (1996)

New year, same old party. (You cannot improve upon perfection.)

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Booster Gold (Darkseid?) is front and center on the Kevin Wada variant cover to tomorrow's Justice League Unlimited #14.

I have no idea if Booster's in that book (UPDATE: one panel!), but there's a pretty good 100% chance that he will be in exactly two pages each of Flash #28 (Flash vs. Green Lantern), Superman #33 (Lex Luthor vs. Demon), and DC K.O.: Red Hood vs. The Joker, respectively rounds six, seven, and eight of the eight-round Kind Omega tournament. (Yes, I'm aware that I just typed "six, seven." I'm sorry. DC made me do it.)

And since tomorrow is Christmas Eve, I'd be remiss not to point out that DC Universe Infinite has adapted yet another Booster Gold story, "The Santa Copies," originally published in the 2023 holiday anthology DC's 'Twas The 'Mite Before Christmas #1, into vertical smartphone scrolling format as DC Go! Holiday Special 2025 #31. You can re-read it now for free at at dcuniverseinfinite.com. Thanks to J for pointing that out.

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