Booster Gold

ARTISTS

Writer: Dan Jurgens
Penciller: Dan Jurgens
Inkers: Norm Rapmund, John Stanisci
Colorist: Hi-Fi Designs
Letterer: Steve Wands
Editor: Michael Siglain
Cover Artists: Dan Jurgens, Norm Rapmund

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CHARACTERS & SETTINGS

hero: Booster Gold
supportinges: Drew, Michelle Carter

Settings: 20th-century Coast City, DCU, USA; 21st-century Unknown Mountains, DCU

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ISSUE SUMMARY

Cover Description: Portraits of Booster Gold and Blue Beetle hang in an abstract space.

Brief Synopsis: Booster Gold works behind the scenes to save his sister from the destruction of Coast City.

Costume Worn: MARK I.v2 power-suit

Issue Notes: The exact chronology of this appearance in the lifetime of Booster Gold is currently impossible to predict. However, based on the apparent age of Rip Hunter, this takes place some 30+ years in the future.

This story has been reprinted in the following issue:
Booster Gold: The Tomorrow Memory (2010)

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ISSUE ANNOTATIONS

Page 3, panel 2
SPOILER WARNING!: "Seventy three years from now," a mysterious figure sabotages the United States government's time travel program, Project Slipshift, by creating a "massive" energy surge. While this surge results in an explosion, it is unclear if anyone is actually killed in the chaos. If so, certainly the mysterious stranger, whose name rhymes with "rooster hold," would be responsible for the deaths of those involved. Reveal

Page 11, panel 5
A mysterious man holding the sign "Coast City is Doomed! Repent!" interrupts an otherwise perfectly romantic moment between Michelle Carter and her new beau, Drew, on a simple street corner in Coast City.

Page 18, panel 2
SPOILER WARNING!: The sign carried by the mysterious figure triggers a memory in Michelle Carter, and she chases him into an alley. It is hard to believe that she wouldn't recognize her own brother, a known time-traveler, but the twins were never particularly close, and Booster Gold is very well disguised. Reveal

For more annotations from this story which occur at a different point in Booster Gold's chronology, click here.

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ISSUE REVIEW

Boosterrific Review: As effectively as Booster juggles his responsibilities, writer Dan Jurgens juggles two seemingly unrelated plots into a story as layered as a Russian nesting doll. Booster's paradox, saving the past to ensure that the future is damaged, is by now familiar to readers of the series. However, Jurgens teases that Booster's actions will have direct but unforeseen consequences for our hero. This dramatic irony is appealing in a series devoted primarily to toying with the artificial history of the DC Universe, and hopefully the suspense that it generates will eventually lead to an injection new life (first life?) into the character of Michelle Carter.

Boosterrific Rating:

• Currently 4.0/5 Stars.

Average Fan Rating:

• Currently 3.5/5 Stars.

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