Yesterday, Dan Jurgens tweeted some solemn news:

Since 1985? That means that pencil did the work on all 115 comic books penciled by Jurgens that featured Booster Gold, including the entire volume 1 and most of volume 2 of the character's self-titled series. That's also the same pencil that created Doomsday and killed Superman! (And created and killed Waverider!)

Someone save that pen: the Space Museum is getting a whole new exhibit!

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There's no Booster Gold schedule this week, but that won't come as a surprise to longtime comic book readers. Today is the rare "fifth week" of the month, a calendar oddity once ignored by the publishers and their precious four week schedules. For a time in the 90s, this week would have been filled with theme "fifth week event" one-shots and mini-series like "The Kingdom" and "New Years Evil." Now it seems that the fifth week is simply treated as just any other week, with whatever books might happen to come due about now seeing their regular publication.

Not that I'm complaining. The only bad week for comic books is a week with no comics. I hope I never live to see that day.

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