Today DC is releasing a comprehensive collection of Chase. This 329-page softcover includes the character's first appearance in Batman #550, the far-too-brief 10-issue series itself, and short stories from 8 different Secret Files comics originally published between the late 1990s and early 2000s.

If you have never read the series, you owe it to yourself to partake of writer Curtis Johnson's paranoid trip behind-the-scenes of the DC Universe and artist J.H. Williams III's delicately intricate panel designs.

And if that's not reason enough, be aware that Booster Gold appears or is referenced in at least four -- Chase #4, Chase #6, Chase #1,000,000, and DC Universe Secret Files 2000 (referenced during dialogue between Chase and Blue Beetle) -- of the issues appearing in this collection. This collection contains almost all of Booster's brief fling with Firehawk!

If there is any weakness to this collection, it's that there is no Skeets. Poor li'l guy. The 90s were not a good time to be a football-shaped sidekick.

UPDATE 12/29/2011: I've just been notified that Booster Gold appears (twice thrice!) in Teen Titans #4. Booster is seen in partial advertisements for toothpaste and the Daily Planet in Times Square. It may be a new DCU, but Booster's the same Shining Salesman.

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This week DC releases the hardcover collection of all 52 first issues of their so-called "New 52" series. This collection will include a reprint of Justice League International, Volume 3, #1, the first appearance of Booster Gold in the DCnU.

If you had bought every issue of the New 52 back in September (and many, many people did), it would have cost you $105. This collection will cost $150. Presumably the collection will include some bonus content as well as hard covers, which means that you won't have to store it in Mylar to keep it pristine on your coffee table. That's got to be worth something, right?

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The DC solicitation for today's Justice League International #4 hints that the team has recently been defeated by the Signalmen and will soon be defeated by Peraxxus, a new interstellar foe bent on the destruction of Earth who looks nothing like the old Mongul. That's a lot of failure at the four-month mark of the new series. Hopefully things will get better soon for our Booster Gold-led JLI!

For the record, Russ Burlingame already confirmed with writer Dan Jurgens that Peraxxus is not Mongul in the second edition of his "International Exchange" column at theouthousers.com. Thanks to Eyz from G33k Life for the Mongul panel above.

Buy this issue and make Skeets happy.

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Booster Gold does not appear in any of the comics DC has scheduled for release today. However, that doesn't mean that DC is not releasing anything worth reading. Specifically, if you have the means, you could do much worse than Wonder Woman Chonicles, Volume 2.

The Golden Age adventures of the Amazon Princess are absurdly entertaining. It's a fanciful, anything-goes style of storytelling alien to the satirical, social-commentary nature of Booster Gold stories.

Maybe they do promote lesbianism and sexual bondage, as Doctor Frederic Wertham once famously wrote. But considering modern fare where the DC women now seem to have an unprecedentedly lewd nature, these comics can seen quaint by comparison.

Buy this collection and show Skeets that we will support our DC characters, whether they get television shows or not.

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According to the solicitation, the Justice League splits up to combat the global menace of the Signalmen in this week's Justice League International #3. The more I read of this story goes, the more familiar it feels.

In the Silver Age origin of the Justice League (Justice League of America, Volume 1, #1), the team was united after combating similar but unique alien menaces across the globe. That origin was also the template for the origin of the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths Justice League. Dan Jurgens is no stranger to DC continuity, and the similarity between these stories cannot be accidental as he develops a new Justice League for the DCnU generation.

Buy this week's contribution to the New DCU to find out if the Justice League International gets turned into trees. Your purchase will make Skeets happy.

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