Been busy behind the scenes here at Boosterrific lately.

Booster booster J writes in to note that I had missed Booster's feature appearance in DC Universe Infinite's DC GO Edition of Taste of Justice #15. J is right. I had missed that. If you also missed it, know that you can go right now and read it for free right now at dcuniverseinfinite.com.

J also pointed out that I had missed Booster's appearance in June's Superman: The Ultimate Guide New Edition from DK Books. Again, J is right. (J usually is.) I have corrected oversight by adding the book to the Boosterrific! Other Media: Books list.

What J failed to notice (or was perhaps too polite to mention) was that I had also been omitting the Secret Six by Gail Simone Omnibus Volumes 1 and 2 from the Boosterrific! list of reprints. (To be fair to myself, volume 2 was just released yesterday.) These collections reprint a single Booster Gold cameo appearance apiece. But no matter how small, a Booster Gold appearance is still a Booster Gold appearance, and these books are now appropriately in the Boosterrific! database.

Thanks, J. Keep reading and let me know when you find more.

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When I went looking at the lists of new comics coming out this week, I was surprised to see so few books from DC. I didn't realize it was the 5th week of the month. DC has lately been releasing anthology books during "skip" weeks, but this year's Halloween special with a punny name, DC's Zatannic Panic, was released at the start of the month instead. I guess they were being helpful by ensuring we wouldn't get chocolate fingerprints all over our near mint comics. How thoughtful of them.

That's not to say that no Booster Gold comics were released this week. Yesterday saw the release of (count 'em!) three trades reprinting previous Booster Gold stories. In alphabetical order, they are

1. Batman: The Brave and the Bold Across the Universe
Collects the complete 2024 "Time Jerks" Booster Gold/Jurassic League story by Mark Russell told across three issues beginning in Batman: The Brave and the Bold #13.

2. Jonah Hex All-Star Western Omnibus
Reprints the entire third volume of All-Star Western, which is one of the few books unimpacted directly by the New 52 reboot in 2011. Of interest to Booster Gold fans are the issues spanning All-Star Western #19 through #21, which reintroduced Booster Gold to the DCnU eight months after he appeared to be erased from continuity in Justice League International Annual #1. (If you recall, issue #19 was part of DC's "WTF" month event and the Internet was rife with supposition that Booster Gold was the character hidden on its surprise fold-out cover. I have no idea if that cover is reprinted as a fold out in this omnibus, and I'm not paying $125 to find out.)

3. Justice League by Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV Omnibus Volume 2
Among other things, this reprints the complete 2020 Year of the Villain: Hell Arisen mini-series, which sees a mute Booster Gold temporarily turned into an evil zombie. Just in time for Halloween.

Trick or treat? You decide, Booster boosters.

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If you're out to collect every Booster Gold comic book, DC is out to squeeze every possible penny out of you.

Case in point: this week's Superman #31. Excuse me. I mean the "Superman #31 Cover E Jorge Fornes Card Stock Variant (DC K.O.)." The standard cover is $4.99, but this variant's cover price is $5.99.

Booster Gold in a poncho? Is this a reference to A Fistful of Dollars or Back to the Future III? ("What idiot dressed you in that outfit?") We can at least be sure that Booster is in the book, at least as a mute background character, thanks to the preview at AIPTComics.com, but do we really think anything like this happens between the covers?

Second case in point: New History of the DC Universe #4. Excuse me. I mean the "New History of the DC Universe #4 (of 4) Cover E Ryan Sook Foil Variant." The standard cover is $5.99, but this variant's cover price is $9.99.

The preview for that issue does not show Booster Gold, so buyer beware.

To be clear: Although, yes, I will buy comics just because Booster Gold is in them and Booster Gold is on them, I do not make a habit of buying variants, especially ones with higher cover prices, and I cannot endorse such behavior in others. ("A man's got to know his limitations.") But if you've got enough money to cover your other needs and spending that money will not harm you, I trust you to judge for yourself whether to buy some commercially produced Booster Gold artwork. ("Go ahead, make your day.")

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DC's latest event book, DC K.O. #1, arrives at your Local Comic Shop today. According to preview pages at BleedingCool.com, Booster Gold is in it.

He is also on it. He can be seen fighting Jaime Reyes on the back of Scott Koblish's wraparound cover.

The bad news is this cover, officially "Cover L Scott Koblish DC Showcase Wraparound Foil Variant," just one of 45 that I am aware of, has a cover price of $24.99, the highest of all the non-incentive variant covers. (Technically, the incentive variants have no price on their covers, so I guess you could say they are all "priceless.")

And lest you think that you can circumvent that price point by gambling on getting the Cover N Scott Koblish Blind Bag Foil Variant in a $9.99 polybagged "Blind Bag," beware that the Blind Bag version is the Booster Gold-free front cover only. So $25 or bust if you're collecting Booster Gold covers.

Buy this issue and make Skeets happy (if only because it gets us one step closer to finding out where Skeets is).

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Booster booster J points out that Booster Gold has a one panel cameo in the most recent issue of the free DC Universe Taste of Justice vertical scrolling webcomic that combines Justice League superheroics and cooking demonstrations.

Specifically, Booster is in panel (page?) 7:

Booster doesn't stick around until the end to taste the Atom's dish resulting from a combination of onions, carrots, water, bullion cubes, mulberries, and "chicken of the woods." I can't say I blame him.

You read the issue yourself (it's free!) at dcuniverseinfinite.com.

Thanks for calling this to our attention, J.

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