Today is the fifth Wednesday in the month of July, so as is usual for DC Comics, the books being released today are mostly one-shots and annuals. Among them is Superman Annual Year One Thousand #1, which promises to finally spill the beans about what Superman has been up to since wining the King Omega Tournament.

We already learned in last week's Action Comics #1100 that Booster Gold will save Superman at the end of time, so the question this week is whether any of that will be seen in Superman Annual Year One Thousand. Find out by visiting your Local Comic Shop.

UPDATE: Coin comments confirmation that Booster's in there. (Thanks, Coin!) So buy this issue and make Skeets happy.

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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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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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The online preview of today's "landmark issue" Action Comics #1100 doesn't give any indication whether Booster Gold will be in this issue. I'll be buying it anyway, so I'll keep you posted.

The online preview also gives no indication whether Booster will be in today's Superman #40. Given how often he's sneaked his way into the background of recent issues, it's not impossible he'll show up there again sooner or later.

However, the online preview of today's Green Lantern #37 reveals that Booster Gold is definitely making an appearance in that issue, at least for a few panels:

Er, to be clear, that's Booster in the poster advertising Booster Boost energy drink, not the guy going to the door. Which is good. That guy isn't going to be around much longer. To see what I mean, read the preview at AIPTComics.com.

Buy one or more of these issues and make Skeets happy.

UPDATE: Break out your wallets, Booster boosters! Booster Gold appears in all 3 of these issues!

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Justice League America #86 from 1994 is the first issue by artist Dan Campos, whose style herein presents as an obvious attempt by DC Comics to ape the more, uh, "dynamic" styles of some of the more famous artists of the era. I consider this the dawn of the very-hard-to-look-at EXTREME era of the Justice League, which, perhaps not-so-coincidentally, coincides with the collapse of the 1990s speculation market.

(I'm not saying Extreme Justice single-handedly killed the 90s comics boom, but I might be suggesting that when staid, old DC Comics tries to get hip with what the cool kids are into, that bubble might be past ready to burst.)

All of which may be contributing to why my favorite page in this issue is the one that sees a resurrected Superman politely declining to rejoin the league.

Get out while the getting's good, Supes. Even Guy Gardner knows you're better than this.

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