Booster booster Rob is usually the first person to email me each month when the DC solicitations are released. His email this past Friday lamented that according to the newly released May 2026 solicitations, there was a "Big fat nuthin" coming for Booster Gold.

While Rob is correct that none of the solicitations mention "Booster Gold" by name, AIPTComics.com also shows most of the covers. And guess who's on the Ryan Sook cover of Action Comics #1098?

ACTION COMICS #1098
Written by MARK WAID, Art by SKYLAR PATRIDGE and PATRICIO DELPECHE, Cover by RYAN SOOK
$4.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $5.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 5/13/26

The Weapons Master has homed in on the most scientifically advanced tech on Earth, which happens to be hiding the on Kent Farm…Clark's rocket ship. Now the Justice League and Superboy must defend his legacy and save the town of Smallville from Xotar and his cache of malevolent munitions!

When I pointed out to Rob that he missed Booster on the cover (the third consecutive issue of Action Comics that will have a Booster Gold cover), he explained why he missed it: "No beard." Ok. I'll buy it.

As for the issue itself, It sure looks like Booster is saying good-bye on that cover, and the text doesn't give any impression that Booster will have much of anything to do with Superboy's fight with the Weapons Master (although Booster does have experience against Xotar in Justice League America #61 and #62).

At this point I should probably also mention that these solicitations also include Booster's appearances in Action Comics #992 through #1000, plus The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special #1, all as part of the Superman: Action Comics by Dan Jurgens Omnibus Vol. 2 coming in July. Can you believe that Action Comics #1000 came out almost a decade ago? Golly.

And since we're on the subject of Superman's history, may I add that if Mark Waid is going to start mining Superman's history for new Superboy stories, could we see a return of Zigi and Zagi from 1964's Action Comics #315/316? (Asking for a friend.)

Thanks for your support, Rob.

UPDATE 02/27: I think I owe you an apology, Rob. I overlooked Booster's appearance in this week's Superman #35. In his one panel cameo flashback appearance, Booster Gold is erroneously depicted without a beard, which is obviously why I didn't spot it earlier.

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DC Comics recently posted to their social media feeds that "February marks 40 YEARS since the one and only Booster Gold first appeared." While I'm glad that DC is encouraging people to celebrate four decades of Booster Gold, like most things on social media, it's not true.

Yes, Booster Gold #1 has a February cover date, but cover dates are historically two months ahead of release date. Think of cover dates as "off sale" dates: they told newsstand owners when to pare down and return their unsold stock. In fact, despite the fact that newsstands are as old fashioned as pay telephones, if you look at the indicia in the back pages of current comics, DC continues to date their comics two-months ahead of actual release.

For the record, Booster Gold #1 was actually released to discriminating comic buyers in the nascent direct market in October 1985 (specifically October 29) and the general public at newsstands a month later (November 22). And we know that's true because Booster Gold creator Dan Jurgens said so.

Someone at DC might want to read up on their own publishing history.

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The 2026 Winter Olympics officially start today, which means it's time for your biennial reminder that without the Olympics, there would be no Booster Gold.

From Dan Jurgens' introduction to Booster Gold: The Big Fall:

While watching the 1984 Olympics, which took place in Los Angeles, I heard one of the announcers talk about the city as the perfect setting for athletes to display their skills and parlay their successes into massive endorsement deals. I was already toying around with notions of a character that might play in that type of arena, but suddenly, the more recognizable aspects of Booster began to take shape. Within a couple of days, those loose ideas galvanized into the concept of a time-traveler who'd come from the future to leverage his knowledge of the past and be a hero.

It's a good thing we don't give endorsement deals to second-place finishers because "Booster Silver" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

Enjoy your Olympics, everybody.

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Longtime DC letterer Todd Klein has recently started a series of posts on his blog (kleinletters.com/Blog/) detailing the logos he has designed over the years, including one particular logo that should be pretty darn familiar to Booster Gold fans.

As Klein writes in his post "My Logos A-Z: BIZARRO to BRAIN STORM":

Booster Gold. Client: DC Comics. Medium: pen and ink. Date: 1985. I don't recall if creator Dan Jurgens provided any ideas for this, but he probably did. The dollar sign for the S is something I might not have thought of myself. The bevels add depth when they aren't overwhelmed by heavy colors. Appeared on 25 issues.

In addition to the 1985 run, the logo also appeared in several Who's Who entries as well as on the covers of Booster's Convergence mini-series in 2015, which means it's been used for two centuries. So you know it must be pretty good!

Thanks to Todd for creating such a great logo, and thanks again for permitting me to repost his personal blog content. I encourage anyone interested in the history of comics to read much, much more about Klein's incredible body of work and the designers who inspired him at kleinletters.com (especially his Logo Studies).

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Booster booster Steven writes

"Just listened to a podcast interview with Dan Jurgens about Booster Gold. It is the Justice League Revisited podcast with Susan Eisenberg & James Enstall. It is worth a listen."

Steven told me about that last week, and a quick Googling indicates he was talking about the episode released October 21, which they describe thusly:

Susan Eisenberg and James of Geek To Me Radio chat with the creator of Booster Gold, Dan Jurgens, to find out how he liked the Justice League Unlimited's take on his creation as we once again cover "The Greatest Story Never Told"... [which] originally aired on September 1, 2004.

You can find the podcast on several popular sites, including creators.spotify.com.

Despite being a big fan of both Jurgens and "The Greatest Story Never Told," I have to admit that I have not yet listened myself. But don't let my personal inability to find time to listen to an hour of talk radio stop you from tuning in.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention, Steven.

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