Over the weekend, I was bagging and boarding some comics I recently acquired, and I discovered a DC house advertisement from 2003 that I had not previously indexed: "DC in Demand 07.03" from July 2003 which includes a "Hot List" of titles specifically including Formerly Known as the Justice League #1.

Honestly, I'd forgotten Empire was ever released by DC.

Now, I'm not particularly surprised that I missed that ad. I was no longer working in a comic shop by July 2003 so I wasn't reading every comic that hit the stands. I wouldn't think to start Boosterrific.com until 2006, and I didn't even begin indexing house advertisements until 2010.

I tell you this not to make excuses but as an admission that I'm fallible. (Just ask J, who has been on a tear lately editing many grammatical errors on this site, some of which have existed for decades.) As complete as I have tried to make Boosterrific.com, there may be — and likely are — many other Booster Gold appearances out that I have overlooked.

So if you happen to spot Booster somewhere unexpected, please don't be shy about bringing it to my attention. I'd rather be told about the same appearance over and over again than miss one.

Thanks in advance, Booster boosters.

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Yesterday, I accidently posted here on the Boosterrific! Blog a stub I had left to remind myself that Booster Gold The Complete 2007 Series Book Three was coming out. I was supposed to turn that post into what you're reading now. Oops.

In any event, Booster Gold The Complete 2007 Series Book Three actually is now available now at your Local Comic Shop. Hooray!

This softcover collection reprints Booster Gold Volume 2 issues #32 through #47 plus Time Masters: Vanishing Point #1 through #6.

(You may notice that if you line up the spines for Booster Gold The Complete 2007 Series Books One, Two, and Three, they look a little off center. Could that mean that next year we'll get a companion Booster Gold The Complete 1985 Series to balance? I like to hope so!)

Buy this trade paperback and make Skeets happy.

P.S. Speaking of "oops," all Booster boosters should offer a big thanks to J, who continues to do sterling work ensuring that the Boosterrific! Database is as complete and accurate as possible. Just this weekend, they reported finding several additional instances of house ads as well as catching the omission of Booster's one-panel cameo from Action Comics #664. Thanks, J!

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Booster booster J has alerted me that Booster Gold is in the recently released Taste of Justice #20. But there's a catch:

I'm saying this based on the image on the webpage. I haven't actually read it, since DC stopped making Taste of Justice available for free.

J's right. Taste of Justice, previously a free read in the DC Go! line of webcomics, is now behind a paywall at dcuniverseinfinite.com. Just like Booster Gold's previously reported appearances in DC Go!'s Aquaman: Yo-Ho-Hold onto Your Hook, I can no longer confirm Booster's inclusion in DC's official web comics.

Yes, I could start paying $8 a month for access to these stories, but I'm not going to. For one thing, I've never much cared for comics made only of energy-dependent pixels that I cannot add to my long boxes. For another, has anyone seen the price of gas lately? I already pay too much for comics—I remember when DC raised cover prices to $1, and if young me could see what I'm paying now for an issue of Action Comics, he would have chosen an entirely different hobby. (My dad used to collect shark's teeth. The most expensive part about that was getting them out of the shark's mouths.)

All that said, if any Booster boosters want to send me screenshots confirming any future Booster Gold appearances in DC's digital exclusives, I'll be happy to update the Boosterrific! Database with appropriate information and credit.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, J.

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I regret to say that my friend Michael Foster, longtime supporter of Boosterrific.com, has died.

Over the past decade, "michael foster" has been tagged in blog posts over a dozen times, but that was the tip of the iceberg for how much help he has been to this site. In the earliest days of Boosterrific.com, long before fandom.com was a thing, Mike helped me compile lists of Booster Gold comic book appearances and identify characters encountered. He more than earned his permanent place among the special thanks section of the Boosterrific.com FAQ.

But none of that was because Michael was a particular fan of Booster Gold. Yes, Michael bought a lot of comic books, many with Booster Gold in them. But Michael was first and foremost a Hal Jordan fan. A serious Hal Jordan fan. The kind of fan that makes you worry about their mental health.

I first met Michael when I worked in a comic book store in the 1990s. He was the store's resident Green Lantern superfan, buying anything—it would be more accurate to say everything— that was even peripherally relating to Hal Jordan, standing by his hero even when Jordan was turned into a mass murderer. (The 90s were rough on Mike.)

When he wasn't hunting Green Lantern action figures and Underoos, Mike might tell you that his second favorite things were Krull, Battlestar Galactica, or Battle of the Planets, but our decades-long friendship was built on the back of our shared appreciation of Star Trek, Glen Larson-produced television shows, Xanadu, and most especially DC Comics. If it seems like Mike liked a lot of things, he did. That was part of his charm. Mike had a great enthusiasm for the many things he liked, an enthusiasm he gregariously and generously shared with his friends, even grumpy sticks-in-the-mud like me.

When Michael broke the news to me of his terminal cancer diagnosis, I asked if there was anything I could do for him. His only request was for me to "swear to accept Hal Jordan as your lord and master." That guy was dedicated.

I'll miss you, bud.

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When I first started Boosterrific.com, DC hadn't rebooted its continuity in about two decades. At the time, volume number was a pretty useful way to tell what era a particular run of comics belonged to.

Obviously, times have changed. Publishers now restart numbering all the time—the current Superman title is volume 6!—for a variety of reasons (mostly to goose sales), and telling the volumes apart isn't as easy or as useful as it once was. So I'm thinking about changing the way this site handles volumes, eliminating the descriptor from the lists and simply going by year of publication instead, which is how I track my personal collection (which for some reason contains more than just comics with Booster Gold in them).

Don't worry too much: I'm certainly not planning to eliminate volume numbers from individual comics pages or URLs. Most visitors will never notice a difference.

Which raises the question of why I'm telling you this. Maybe it's to spur me into action. Maybe it's to warn you that what you see in the Boosterrific! comics lists might be changing as I tinker with formats. Maybe it's a request for suggestions for other usability improvements.

Maybe I'm just looking for something to talk about other than today's DC K.O. #5.

In any event, even though I don't say it often enough, thank you for visiting Boosterrific.com.

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