Blue Beetle and Booster Gold. They don't exist as a team in comics anymore, so it's a good thing we've got them in the real world now.

Check out heffbrew.com to see more of Cameron Heffernan's pics of WonderCon 2013 cosplayers, including a shockingly good Guy Gardner costume. JLI forever!

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Booster Gold may be missing in action in the DCnU, but he's still attending comic book conventions!

The photo of the unknown cosplayer above was taken by Tony "G-Man" Guerrero at Emerald City Comicon 2013 this past weekend. It is but one of his many great pics of great cosplayers you can find online at comicvine.com.

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I hadn't meant to make this a week of fan art, but when preparing yesterday's pic, I found this one that I had prepared but never posted. Today, I'll correct that oversight.

My apologies to artist More979 of Uruguay. This was, I think, among the earliest fan art pieces I found of Booster in his New 52 costume. I think this drawing does a fine job of (unintentionally) demonstrating how bad an idea those extra gold bands on the upper arms and neck are. In More979's loose, cartoon style, the bands read as tiger stripes, not technology. Obviously, that's something I blame on Booster's New 52 costume design, not More979.

You can find more of More979's super-hero sketches on DeviantArt.com.

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No, I don't normally run Boostle posts, but this isn't a bromance, it's a fusion.

Artist Stark-liverbird at Deviant Art combined the costumes of Booster and Beetle (and Skeets and the Bug!) to create this "Booster Gold + Blue Beetle fusion." Could this be the Beetle Gold of Earth-2? Maybe I'm old-school, but I think those gold boy shorts are quintessentially super heroic.

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All week, we've been looking at Booster Gold costumes found hanging in the JLA Trophy Rooms. On Monday we saw the Mark II. On Tuesday it was the Mark XI. Today, we return to the classics.

As seen in this panel from JLA Secret Files #2, Zauriel introduces us to the prize possession of the JLA Trophy Room: Booster Gold's original armor.

Booster Gold's original Mark I powersuit, cobbled together from items stolen from the Space Museum in 2462, was destroyed by Doomsday, the same creature that "killed" Superman. Though the torn fabric could be repaired, 20th-century technology could not restore the suit's functions. Although Booster bravely wore the de-powered costume in one last adventure (seen in Justice League Europe #49 and #50), it was soon replaced with inferior and bulky 20th-century technology.

So there you have it. Booster Gold has 3 costumes hanging in the JLA Trophy Room. (How many Superman costumes do you think it has?) If anyone asks you why the JLA built a headquarters on the moon, tell them it is because they needed more closet space.

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