J has sent me an email that says... well, here, you read it:

I'm writing to report a Booster cameo in an old comic. In Superman #33, cover dated July 1989, Booster appears in a one-panel cameo where Superman imagines what would have happened if he brought Zod from a pocket universe back to Earth. (It is on approximately the fifth page from the end of the comic.) This issue is collected in Superman: The Exile & Other Stories Omnibus.

I conveniently happen to have a copy of Superman #33, so I took a look. As usual, J is correct. This is panel 5 on page 18:

Looks like a bad day for the Justice League International. Fortunately for Booster, who is taking it on the chin from Kryptonian supervillain Quex-Ul (first appearance: Superman #157, 1962), this is all just an Eradicator-enabled visualization of Superman's rationalization for killing three alternate-universe Kryptonians in Superman #22. Let's call it an "imaginary story."

Good catch, J. I've updated the database with this book and the reprint.

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Over the weekend, I was bagging and boarding some comics I recently acquired, and I discovered a DC house advertisement from 2003 that I had not previously indexed: "DC in Demand 07.03" from July 2003 which includes a "Hot List" of titles specifically including Formerly Known as the Justice League #1.

Honestly, I'd forgotten Empire was ever released by DC.

Now, I'm not particularly surprised that I missed that ad. I was no longer working in a comic shop by July 2003 so I wasn't reading every comic that hit the stands. I wouldn't think to start Boosterrific.com until 2006, and I didn't even begin indexing house advertisements until 2010.

I tell you this not to make excuses but as an admission that I'm fallible. (Just ask J, who has been on a tear lately editing many grammatical errors on this site, some of which have existed for decades.) As complete as I have tried to make Boosterrific.com, there may be — and likely are — many other Booster Gold appearances out that I have overlooked.

So if you happen to spot Booster somewhere unexpected, please don't be shy about bringing it to my attention. I'd rather be told about the same appearance over and over again than miss one.

Thanks in advance, Booster boosters.

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Yesterday, I accidently posted here on the Boosterrific! Blog a stub I had left to remind myself that Booster Gold The Complete 2007 Series Book Three was coming out. I was supposed to turn that post into what you're reading now. Oops.

In any event, Booster Gold The Complete 2007 Series Book Three actually is now available now at your Local Comic Shop. Hooray!

This softcover collection reprints Booster Gold Volume 2 issues #32 through #47 plus Time Masters: Vanishing Point #1 through #6.

(You may notice that if you line up the spines for Booster Gold The Complete 2007 Series Books One, Two, and Three, they look a little off center. Could that mean that next year we'll get a companion Booster Gold The Complete 1985 Series to balance? I like to hope so!)

Buy this trade paperback and make Skeets happy.

P.S. Speaking of "oops," all Booster boosters should offer a big thanks to J, who continues to do sterling work ensuring that the Boosterrific! Database is as complete and accurate as possible. Just this weekend, they reported finding several additional instances of house ads as well as catching the omission of Booster's one-panel cameo from Action Comics #664. Thanks, J!

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Booster booster J has alerted me that Booster Gold is in the recently released Taste of Justice #20. But there's a catch:

I'm saying this based on the image on the webpage. I haven't actually read it, since DC stopped making Taste of Justice available for free.

J's right. Taste of Justice, previously a free read in the DC Go! line of webcomics, is now behind a paywall at dcuniverseinfinite.com. Just like Booster Gold's previously reported appearances in DC Go!'s Aquaman: Yo-Ho-Hold onto Your Hook, I can no longer confirm Booster's inclusion in DC's official web comics.

Yes, I could start paying $8 a month for access to these stories, but I'm not going to. For one thing, I've never much cared for comics made only of energy-dependent pixels that I cannot add to my long boxes. For another, has anyone seen the price of gas lately? I already pay too much for comics—I remember when DC raised cover prices to $1, and if young me could see what I'm paying now for an issue of Action Comics, he would have chosen an entirely different hobby. (My dad used to collect shark's teeth. The most expensive part about that was getting them out of the shark's mouths.)

All that said, if any Booster boosters want to send me screenshots confirming any future Booster Gold appearances in DC's digital exclusives, I'll be happy to update the Boosterrific! Database with appropriate information and credit.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, J.

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I'm not seeing any reason in online solicitations for Booster Gold fans to go to our Local Comic Shops tomorrow. I'd rather watch the Olympics anyway.

In the meantime, let me once again thank J for all the hard work editing my typos in the Boosterrific Annotations. J has also been catching books that have been included in reprint collections, most especially Justice League International Book Two: Around the World, which apparently contains a lot of content not clearly indicated on the book cover. Thanks, J!

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