What I like most about my favorite page from Superman #74 is that for one brief moment, it seems like everything is going to be okay.

Krakadoom! I just love the sound effects in this issue.

Which, of course, will only serve to deepen the horror when, a few pages later, Doomsday beats the living stuffing out of Booster Gold and the rest of the Justice League.

The pacing of Dan Jurgens' "Death of Superman" contributions are exceptionally effective storytelling, which is no small part of why this storyline is still so celebrated all these years later.

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Look, I could beat around the bush, but is there really any suspense about what will be my favorite page of 1992's Justice League America #69?

Uh-oh, Booster.

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For what it's worth, page 9 is probably my favorite full page in 1992's Superman #7. It depicts Waverider taking Superman through the timestream to Vanishing Point. But instead of showing you that page, with nary a Booster Gold in sight, I'm instead going to cheat today and show you my favorite sequence of panels from that issue. Two of them, actually.

First up is this sequence from page 21, in which the Linear Men detail just how important Booster Gold is to DC continuity:

For a long time, that was probably my favorite. But I find I now prefer this sequence on page 3, which in hindsight of how Booster's career has changed over time, reads even better now than it did thirty years ago:

Those are two pretty good sequences for Booster Gold fans in an issue otherwise light on Booster Gold content.

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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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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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