The complete list of DC Comics December 2026 solicitations was released late last week, and it doesn't look like it's going to be a very merry Christmas for Booster Gold fans. Our hero was neither seen nor mentioned anywhere in the coming attractions list as posted at AIPTComics.com.

For what it's worth, Booster will be making a cameo appearance in several trade collections coming in January and February:

• JLA Book Four (reprinting JLA #27)
• Superman Vol. 7: Reign of the Superboys — Prime Time (reprinting "Kingdom of Zod," including Action Comics #1101)
• Superman by Phillip Kennedy Johnson Omnibus Vol. 2 (reprinting Superman: Kal-El Returns Special #1)
• Welcome to Hollywood, Green Lantern! (reprinting Green Lantern #37).

I'm disappointed, but after DC K.O. and "Kingdom of Zod," Booster Gold deserves a winter break. Kick back and enjoy the R&R, Booster.

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DC's November solicitations came out at the end of last week. You can see them at AIPTComics.com. Beware that if you do go looking, you're not going to find any clear evidence of new Booster Gold adventures.

Booster will certainly be in a couple of reprint collections (Dark Knights: Death Metal Compendium, Superman: Panic in the Sky 2027 Edition). Otherwise, it's possible that our hero could put an appearance in Justice League Unlimited #25, a 40-page anniversary issue focused on ongoing DC K.O. fallout. I guess we'll find out on November 25.

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I haven't seen a single piece of reporting from the Comic-Con International panels that even tangentially relates to Booster Gold, but that doesn't mean there was no Booster Gold news this weekend.

DC released their October 2026 solicitations Saturday, and Booster Gold can be seen as just one of about two dozen heroes on the back cover of the announced Superman: The Wedding Album 30th Anniversary Special.

It's strange to see Booster on the cover of this thing. Unlike the "Death of Superman," Booster Gold played no role in the original Wedding Album one-shot. Not that there was anything wrong with that. Lois Lane didn't marry Superman; she married Clark Kent. It would have been kind of hard to explain the Justice League sitting in the pews. Maybe some time travel is involved this time around?

It's strange to see this thing at all. The Wedding Album one-shot only came to exist because DC Comics was trying to build some synergy between Superman comics and the Lois & Clark television show. (Comic book historian Brian Cronan chronicled that whole story in his 2019 CBR.com article "How the Lois & Clark TV Series Sped Up Lois and Clark's Comic Wedding.") Sure, the book made a splash at the time of its release (becoming the top selling comic of November 1996 according to Comichron.com), but although the marriage has lasting effects, the story itself hasn't been particularly influential.

I guess everyone just loves anniversaries.

Will Booster play a bigger role than just the cover? We'll find out when the book releases on October 28.

You can see all the solicitations at AIPTComics.com.

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DC released August solicitations last week, and other than Booster's one-panel cameo from Animal Man #1 being reprinted in the latest re-issue of Animal Man by Grant Morrison Book One, I don't see much to excite Booster boosters.

On a similar note, don't expect too much Booster Gold at your Local Comic Shop tomorrow, either. Booster has been seen in ten of the last eleven issues of Superman, so maybe we'll see him (or a poster of him) again in Superman #38, but the preview at AIPTComics.com doesn't give any indication. We'll see.

UPDATE: We have seen. Superman #38 takes us back to Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman-Prime with a whole bunch of heroes against Superboy-Prime Superman-Prime Just-Plain-Prime. But no Booster Gold. Maybe next month.

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DC's July solicitations came out late last week, and as Rob Snow wrote to me, tongue firmly in cheek, "still no Absolute Booster." Phew.

But there's not much run-of-the-mill Booster Gold, either, except for his inclusion in a couple of collections, including the inevitable Absolute Power Omnibus and another collection featuring selected stories by Keith Giffen, appropriately titled The DC Universe by Keith Giffen.

The Giffen volume will reprint just a small sample of contributions the prolific writer/artist made through the decades, and it is unclear at this time how much Booster Gold will be in it. If the solicitation is accurate, the answer is a little but not much, which also describes how much of our hero will be on the cover reusing Kevin Maguire's art from the "Remembering Keith Giffen" ad that ran in DC Comics in November 2023:

Keep an eye out for that in September.

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