The following entry was originally posted on the Boosterrific! Blog as the very first in the series of "secret history" posts on July 2, 2013, when a youthfully naive USA was preparing to celebrate her 237th birthday and you could still trust everything you saw on the Internet.

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress passed Virginian Richard Henry Lee's resolution for independence from Great Britain, and thus was born the United States of America.

The adoption of the declaration of that new-found independence two days later is what we now celebrate, but the real secret of America's independence is the role that Booster Gold played in ensuring it ever happened.

What really happened in Independence Hall in the summer of 1776? The world may never know.

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On this date in 2020, in the pages of Superman: Heroes #1, Booster Gold was among the first to tell the world that Superman had always secretly been...

Everyone in the DCU would know that Superman was Clark Kent for almost two full years... until Lex Luthor and Manchester Black forced most to forget that fact in Action Comics #1050. In that issue, Batman makes it clear that "the Justice League, reservists, and the Titans all have psychic defenses set up by Martian Manhunter," so we can be sure that Booster Gold still remembers.

The real question is how he knew something that everyone would forget.

The answer to that, I think, is that the psychic suggestion that forced this forgetfulness influences living minds to ignore any evidence to the contrary that Superman and Clark Kent are the same person, but it does not actually erase that evidence. Considering how widespread the psychic suggestion is, it is probable everyone just stopped talking about it.

Therefore, the historians of the 25th century, unaffected directly by the psychic effect, will learn from primary sources exactly when Superman revealed his identity, and a young Michael "Booster" Carter will be taught exactly when Superman revealed his secret identity without realizing that the information was ever again restricted.

See? No retcon is necessary. There's nothing to see here. Move along.

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New comics released on January 22, 2020:

Superman, Vol. 5, #19

Batman Superman, Vol. 1, #6

Year of the Villain: Hell Arisen, Vol. 1, #2

Booster Gold had small parts in those, and, as you can read in the Boosterrific Blog post for that day, they were mostly unexpected. But at least he had a part.

Turns out that it's easier to make surprise cameo appearances in other characters' books when you actually exist in their shared universe.

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Released on July 19, 1994: Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #3.

In hindsight, looking at the costume designs in this comic, maybe the reason that time was collapsing on itself in this crisis event was because the DCU had gotten as "Extreme" as any one timeline could stand.

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Released on July 17, 1986: Booster Gold #9.

In which Booster Gold and Skeets (and the Legion of Super-Heroes) foil an attempted presidential assassination.

UPDATE: Our Hero also makes an appearance in this week's Superman #16, an Absolute Power tie-in. Buy this issue and make Skeets happy!

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