DC Comics surprised yesterday with a Thursday announcement of books to be released in two months, and I'm happy to report that Booster Gold was indeed seen in the mix, specifically on the A cover of Action Comics #1102.

The remaining question is whether, as a Booster Gold collector, you can consider your comic collection complete if that's the only issue you buy in September.

See, in addition to Action Comics #1102, Artist Lucas Meyer also provides the A covers of Supergirl #17, Superman #42, and Superman Unlimited #17. They're all part of the "Kingdom of Zod" storyline, and those all link together to form a single quadriptych:

Does that mean they all count as a single image? If I buy only Action Comics #1102, am I'm missing 3/4 of what will likely be a single fold-out cover in the inevitable collected edition? Better to be safe than sorry, I guess.

Speaking of collected editions, the solicitations also announce that Superman: Action Comics: Vol. 2: Reign of the Superboys – Future Shock, collecting Action #1096 through #1100, should arrive in your Local Comic Shop just in time for your Black Friday shopping this November. Plan accordingly.

You can find more details for all the above issues as well as larger cover images at AIPTComics.com.

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Attention, die-hard Booster Gold collectors! In addition to the three (three!) comics we got on Wednesday, two other Superman comic books were added to the Boosterrific! Database this week.

The older of the two is The Superman Gallery #1. Capitalizing on the "Death of Superman" craze from 1993, this issue reprints a bunch of Superman artwork from prominent artists. Booster Gold appears by way of Todd McFarlane's "Chapter 2" splash page from Invasion! #2.

A marginally bigger deal is Booster Gold's cameo appearance in Superman Villains Secret Files #1 from 1998. Yes, it's also just one panel, but it's a unique panel suitable for a time-traveling hero as its drawn by Stuart Immonen in the style of Windsor McKay's Little Nemo in Slumberland newspaper strip from 1905!

Every time I think I know every Booster Gold comic, I find a new one — or two (or five)! Isn't comic collecting fun?

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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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Do you know what "the best selling graphic novel of all time" is? According to the cover of the 2011 fourteenth printing, it's The Death of Superman, specifically the collection reprinting the complete 1992 "The Death of Superman" storyline.

I don't know if that was true in 2011. I have my doubts. I'm pretty sure it's not true in 2026, especially if you don't restrict eligibility to just North American graphic novels, much less if you don't qualify what your definition of "graphic novel" is. If you're just talking reprint collections, there's some pretty good evidence that the worldwide title goes to one of the volumes of One Piece. But I digress.

Whether best seller ever or just a really great seller, that still means a whole bunch of people have seen Booster Gold on the cover of that book. At least, they've seen him if they turned the book over. Booster is on the back.

And now, for the first time at Boosterrific.com, you can see him too.

Why didn't I have the back cover of a reprint collection released in 1993 on this website already? Answer: because I just bought it. So whatever the previous sales numbers were, I guess you can add one more.

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While reading some recently acquired 1997 back issues, I came across a DC Comics house ad for DC Comics Online via AOL. ("Keyword: Chat DC" because that's how the World Wide Web worked back in your parent's day, kids!) The ad includes the cover of Adventures in the DC Universe #1 showcasing the animated Justice League, including Booster Gold. (He's obscured, but he's there.) So I added the ad to the Boosterrific! Advertisements page here.

That wasn't the only ad I spotted while reading back issues. I'd long been aware of this 40-year-old one for subscriptions (featuring Jose Garcia-Lopez art) but had never added it to Boosterrific.com before because it only mentions Booster Gold (twice!) without ever showing him.

from Super Powers Volume 3, #3, November 1986

Oversight corrected.

What do you think, Booster boosters? Should I add this one to the rest of the house ads, even though Booster is unseen? I'm not as opposed to that idea as I once was, but I still think that comics where Booster is mentioned shouldn't be cataloged with the rest. (Who collects books for mere mentions of other characters?) Maybe it's right that I still only include ads where Booster is seen.

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