"Panic in the Sky" was a storyline running though two month's worth of Superman comics in the spring of 1992. When Brainiac arrived to threaten Metropolis, Superman put together a team of heroes (and a few villains) to stop him.

Booster Gold was one member chosen for this team, and he plays some part in Superman #65, The Adventures of Superman #488, Action Comics #675, Superman: The Man of Steel #10, Superman #66, and The Adventures of Superman #489).

However, because there were so many heroes (and villains), very few got the chance at much of a spotlight, including our hero.

Therefore, rather than pick one favorite page from each of those comics, I'm going to give you just my favorite page for the entire "Panic in the Sky" storyline: page 5 of The Adventures of Superman #488.

Brainiac's skull ship is no match for this super-power collection!

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On this date in 2020, in the pages of Superman: Heroes #1, Booster Gold was among the first to tell the world that Superman had always secretly been...

Everyone in the DCU would know that Superman was Clark Kent for almost two full years... until Lex Luthor and Manchester Black forced most to forget that fact in Action Comics #1050. In that issue, Batman makes it clear that "the Justice League, reservists, and the Titans all have psychic defenses set up by Martian Manhunter," so we can be sure that Booster Gold still remembers.

The real question is how he knew something that everyone would forget.

The answer to that, I think, is that the psychic suggestion that forced this forgetfulness influences living minds to ignore any evidence to the contrary that Superman and Clark Kent are the same person, but it does not actually erase that evidence. Considering how widespread the psychic suggestion is, it is probable everyone just stopped talking about it.

Therefore, the historians of the 25th century, unaffected directly by the psychic effect, will learn from primary sources exactly when Superman revealed his identity, and a young Michael "Booster" Carter will be taught exactly when Superman revealed his secret identity without realizing that the information was ever again restricted.

See? No retcon is necessary. There's nothing to see here. Move along.

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Remember that time Superman killed Booster Gold?

Ask yourself: is Superman mad that he murdered Booster or that Booster called him a m-monsterrr?

Sheesh, 1991 was a rough year for Superman. First Armageddon 2001 suggests he's going to be a murdering tyrant in the future, then Adventures of Superman #479 makes him a murdering tyrant in the present.

Don't worry too much about Booster's death there. He doesn't really die. Or, more accurately, that's not really Booster Gold. It's not even really Superman. Red Kryptonite does some strange things to Kryptonians.

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The Armageddon 2001 storyline ran through the DC annuals in 1991 as Waverider took peeks into potential futures for the heroes of the DCU in search of the one who would become the evil dictator Monarch.

It was Superman's turn in Superman Annual #3, where an increasingly tyrannical Man of Tomorrow is opposed by the freedom-loving Justice League International (with predictable results).

I also really like pages 38 and 44, but neither of those pages manages to work in quite so much delicious cheesecake.

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Preview pages for this week's DC All In Special #1 are all over the web. For example, you can the first few pages of both sides of the flip book, "Alpha" and "Omega" at AIPTcomics.com.

Page 5 of the "Alpha" preview reveals the latest meeting between longtime frenemies Booster Gold and Superman.

words by Joshua Williamson and Scott Snider, art by Daniel Sampere and Alejandro Sanchez

Part of Superman's whole schtick is telling the truth, so I'm not going to call him a liar. At least not to his face. But describing his opinion of Booster as "someone with the best intentions... who sometimes got in his own way" is a very, very polite spin on it.

Remember, this was their first meeting in 1986's Booster Gold #6:

It doesn't look there like Superman thought Booster had "the best intentions," does it?

Ah, but the DC Universe has been rebooted, what, at least 6 six times since then, so I'll give Superman the benefit of the doubt and say that he is speaking his truth... at least from his current point of view.

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