Thing 1: For the last two months, Google Analytics has been telling me that the Boosterrific! Timeline, which is essentially an objective chronological timeline of significant events in the history of Booster Gold's time-traveling adventures, has become one of the site's most popular pages. That page has been part of this site for nearly two decades, and it surprises me that it's just now getting so much traffic (if Google Analytics can be trusted, which isn't always the case). I'm happy that someone is finding value in it, but seeing so many people (or web-crawling spiders) using it makes me wonder if I could improve it. If you have any ideas, let me know.

Thing 2: Over the weekend I noticed that over on Reddit, a user named Saboscrivner has posted a pair of postcard-sized sketches they recently acquired from Steve Lieber featuring the two inarguably best Justice League members:

via Reddit.com

This is actually the third Booster Gold headshot sketch I've featured by Steve Lieber since 2018 but the first not in Cort Carpenter's Booster Gold sketchbook. Thanks for sharing, Saboscrivner.

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Thing 1: Regarding my conundrum of removing non-unique appearances from the Boosterrific! Database, Booster boosters seem to generally prefer that Boosterrific.com lists only comics with distinct Booster Gold appearances (option B). Rather than throw away that data forever, I've tried to ensure that there are now only two places on the site where you'll find links to those issues (the lists of books for specific advertisements accessible via the Advertisements page and the dropdown to select issues on the Comic Books landing page). Hopefully that will satisfy the largest number of critics, including the annoying little voice in the back of my mind that continues to complain about choices made by younger me.

Thing 2: As you're probably aware, Supergirl, um, underpeformed at the box office on its opening weekend. As the always-worth-reading ProgressiveRuin.com points out, there's probably more than one reason for that. (I'm part of the problem; I didn't see it either. Widely advertising that it's based on the work of my least favorite writer is a pretty good way to make sure I stay away.) Whatever the exact cause(s), there's no way the end result at the box office helps the development of the forever-in-the-works Booster Gold television show. Maybe people will respond better to Lanterns.

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I have a dilemma, and I could use your feedback, Booster boosters. Let me explain.

When I first started the Boosterrific! Database in 2007, I intended it to track every Booster Gold appearance in a DC Comics comic book. At that time, I made no allowance for non-unique Booster Gold appearances, by which I mean advertisements, mostly DC house ads and other promotional backmatter.

Eventually figuring that few people ever collect every instance of an advertisement (and realizing that it's impractical for me to track down and buy hundreds of comics just so I can look through them for ads), I decided about a decade ago that it would be this site's policy going forward to not track non-unique appearances in the database but to indicate them, when known, as part of the Boosterrific! Advertisements page. That system works well enough, and I'm happy with it.

However, as a result of my original oversight and prior to my decision to intentional exclude them, some comics which contain only non-unique appearances have been included in the Boosterrific! Database, most visibly in cases featuring the 1985 advertisements of Booster Gold's debut appearance such as DC Challenge #4.

And now I find that discrepancy bothering me.

The solution seems binary. Either A) I change my position again and add books with just non-unique appearances to the database, or B) I remove the existing books with only non-unique appearances from the database.

Which brings me to you, the loyal Boosterrific visitor. Before I make my decision and make some pretty big changes to the database, which do you think I should do? A or B?

Please let me know in the comments below or via the Boosterrific! Contact page.

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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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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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