In honor of escaping the unhappy old year, here's our annual presentation of the 5 most-seen Boosterrific.com blog posts of 2025!

You might notice something strange this year: three out of five of the posts with top hits were in November. Even after accounting for the dramatic increase in bot traffic from China and Singapore, the November hits were aberrantly strong. Personally, I'm guessing DC K.O. drove new readers to search out more info about Booster Gold. If so, I won't say this event is all bad. Just mostly bad.

On with the countdown!

5. Monday, October 6: Another New Release: Taste of Justice 13
In which we make note of Booster Gold's very brief appearance in the free-to-read digital Taste of Justice #13 at dcuniverseinfinite.com.

4. Tuesday, November 11: Fan Mail
In which we add a letter column to Boosteriffic.com for our one piece of fan mail, crediting me for helping to restore faith in humanity. (I'm not saying I did. I'm saying they said I did.)

3. Friday, November 7: My Favorite Pages: Eclipso Darkness Within 2
In which we wax nostalgic about a crossover event story of yesteryear, specifically the one running through summer annuals of 1992, and more specifically its blockbuster conclusion in Eclipso: The Darkness Within #2!

2. Monday, November 3: So This Is Why Superman Wears Trunks
In which we first discover evidence that Booster Gold will be in what we now know is DC X AEW #1, coming to your Local Comic Shop on February 2, 2026.

1. Friday, July 11: My Favorite Pages: Justice League America 65
In which we celebrate the enduring teamwork of comics' greatest team: Booster Gold and Blue Beetle!

Here's to another Boosterrific year in 2026!

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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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I should probably warn you up front: my favorite page from Justice League Quarterly #9 is the last page of the story, and therefore contains spoilers.

Sure, I could have chosen a different page. Booster Gold is in two of the stories in that anthology, though I definitely prefer the second, "Tomorrow Belongs to Geralyn," especially in light of how Booster's career will change in the wake of 52 over a decade later.

It begins with a street urchin picking Booster's pocket in a diner, the discovery that the urchin is key to Booster's personal past, and ends with, well, this page. It's heartwarming, really.

Not that we should be surprised by that. It's written by Elliot S! Maggin, one of DC's premier Bronze Age scribes.

So if you don't want to be spoiled by the "twist" ending of a 12-page short story from 1992, turn away!

...

You have been warned.

See? So spoilery. (It's even better with context. Trust me.)

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For what it's worth, page 9 is probably my favorite full page in 1992's Superman #7. It depicts Waverider taking Superman through the timestream to Vanishing Point. But instead of showing you that page, with nary a Booster Gold in sight, I'm instead going to cheat today and show you my favorite sequence of panels from that issue. Two of them, actually.

First up is this sequence from page 21, in which the Linear Men detail just how important Booster Gold is to DC continuity:

For a long time, that was probably my favorite. But I find I now prefer this sequence on page 3, which in hindsight of how Booster's career has changed over time, reads even better now than it did thirty years ago:

Those are two pretty good sequences for Booster Gold fans in an issue otherwise light on Booster Gold content.

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After being captured by an alien who claims to own the entire Earth (a plot device that probably sounds familiar to readers of Blue and Gold #5), Booster Gold doesn't have much to do in Justice League America #68 but serve as a background wall decoration.

Fun fact: The Matrix was released 7 years after this comic!

To be honest, the H.R. Giger-inspired page 12, above, is not really my favorite page in the issue. I prefer both the giant Guy Gardner taking up all of page 1 and the sequence of lonely, heartbroken Ice wandering an abandoned Edwards Air Force Base on page 9. But Booster isn't on those pages.

In fact, Booster isn't on most of the pages in this issue. I even considered skipping this issue entirely, and I would have if Booster hadn't played such a significant role in the first half of this story. After the big build up in the previous issue, it would have felt wrong to leave Booster's storyline just... hanging.

(Sorry. Not sorry.)

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