If you have read the preview of today's New History of the DC Universe #1 (available at AIPTComics.com, among other places), you may have noticed on the very first panel of the very first page a very familiar... well, "face" is definitely the wrong word:

There, on the left, it's Skeets!

(And many, many other treasures looted from the Justice League trophy room, including Superman's cape, Green Arrow's bow, Jack O'Lantern's lantern, Wild Dog's mask, Zatara's top hat, Blue Beetle's BB Gun, Kanjar Ro's Scepter, the Key's key, the Orb of Ra, Magog's staff, Star Man's Cosmic Rod, the original Red Tornado's helmet, the Guardian's shield, the Red Jar of Calythos, the Green Bell of Utholl, the Silver Wheel of Nyorlath, two Legion Flight Rings, Captain Cold's mask, the Book of Eternity, Elongated Man's Gingold, Batman's batarangs, a couple of other things I don't recognize, and I'm sure that's not all. I mean, the whole history of the DCU has to be in there somewhere.)

Thanks to all who made sure I saw this.

Buy this issue and make Skeets happy.

UPDATE: As you can see from the comments, Booster also makes an unexpected cameo appearance in Superman #27 and Flash #22. So buy those, too.

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Reminder: today's the day that you can get your hands on Trinity: Daughter of Wonder Woman #1 with the previously mentioned Booster Gold corgi on the cover.

While you're at your Local Comic Shop, you might want to consider checking out Action Comics #1087, which features a guest appearance by Booster Gold's 25th-century employer, the Space Museum (as can be seen in the preview available at AIPTcomics.com).

And as if that's not enough excitement for one day, be aware that also out today is Fire and Ice: When Hell Freezes Over #3, which makes it explicitly clear that "I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League" (long treated as an out-of-continuity tale) in JL Classified in 2005 is canon in the modern Rebirth-era DCU.

words by Joanne Starer, pictures by Stephen Byrne, editorial note by (presumably) Andrea Shea

Now if only we could get Booster Gold himself to actually appear in a comic book again...

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In addition to last week's August solicitations, a couple of Booster boosters also made sure I saw a recently revealed variant cover to a comic coming much sooner. Specifically, this $4.99 Lucas Meyer card stock variant cover for Trinity: Daughter of Wonder Woman #1:

See the Blue and Gold corgis there in the top left? SLW calls it a "Booster cameo as a corgi" while pigeon described "a corgi dressed as Booster." So which is it?

You might think that's a stupid question, but in Wonder Woman #9, the Super Sons were turned into corgis by Circe. So is this more of that? Or is this an imaginary story? Or is this just a dog Trick-or-Treating as Booster Gold?

Judging by the preview pages at icv2.com, these corgis are the Justice Leaguers of a doomed alternate Earth during the Crisis on Infinite Earths. Because things like those have to exist somewhere in an infinite Multiverse. (And yeah, although Booster Gold famously didn't exist in the DCU until after Crisis, somewhere in an infinite Multiverse, he did. That's what "infinite" means.)

Thanks to all who brought this to my attention.

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Fall writes:

Hey! Booster makes a quick cameo in the new DC Universe Infinite GO! comic Taste of Justice. While it's not out yet, they put out a holiday preview comic where [Booster Gold] appears in the Watchtower alongside other Justice League members, sporting what looks to be a denim jacket over his suit. I doubt the comic is set in main continuity, but it's still nice to see him.

Fall is one of several people to alert me to this, so I guess a lot of you are reading comics on DC Universe Infinite. Since that seems to be the only place to find new Booster Gold comics these days, maybe I should look into that.

This is the panel with Booster Gold (his only appearance in the entire preview story):

I'm not sure that's denim. Maybe it's his old Conglomerate jacket. (Please, please, please let it be his Conglomerate jacket.)

Will this be Booster's only appearance in this series? I doubt it. If you look real closely at the tiny series cover image, you'll see that Booster is there, too, holding up a hamburger and wearing a "#1 Golden Chef" apron.

Are we going to get a Booster Gold hamburger recipe? I sure hope so.

For the record, Taste of Justice (link: dcuniverseinfinite.com) is being advertised as launching "summer 2025." The title of the preview story is "Cookies in a Flash" credited to Andrew Aydin (writing), Domo (pencils & inks), Nick Filardi (colors), Micah Myers (letterer), Sabrina Futch (Associate Editor), and Katie Kubert (Editor).

Thanks all who let me know about this.

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A preview of Absolute Power #4 is available at aiptcomics.com/2024/09/27/dc-preview-absolute-power-4/.

A preview of DC All In Special #1 is available at aiptcomics.com/2024/09/27/dc-preview-dc-all-in-special-1/.

Booster Gold is in both. Buy these issues and make Skeets happy.

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