Wednesday, February 11, 2026
New Releases: DC K.O. 4
DC K.O. #4 is out today.
And that's all I want to say about that.
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Monday, February 9, 2026
Better Late than Never
DC Comics recently posted to their social media feeds that "February marks 40 YEARS since the one and only Booster Gold first appeared." While I'm glad that DC is encouraging people to celebrate four decades of Booster Gold, like most things on social media, it's not true.
Yes, Booster Gold #1 has a February cover date, but cover dates are historically two months ahead of release date. Think of cover dates as "off sale" dates: they told newsstand owners when to pare down and return their unsold stock. In fact, despite the fact that newsstands are as old fashioned as pay telephones, if you look at the indicia in the back pages of current comics, DC continues to date their comics two-months ahead of actual release.
For the record, Booster Gold #1 was actually released to discriminating comic buyers in the nascent direct market in October 1985 (specifically October 29) and the general public at newsstands a month later (November 22). And we know that's true because Booster Gold creator Dan Jurgens said so.
Someone at DC might want to read up on their own publishing history.
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Friday, February 6, 2026
Welcome Back, Olympics
The 2026 Winter Olympics officially start today, which means it's time for your biennial reminder that without the Olympics, there would be no Booster Gold.
From Dan Jurgens' introduction to Booster Gold: The Big Fall:
While watching the 1984 Olympics, which took place in Los Angeles, I heard one of the announcers talk about the city as the perfect setting for athletes to display their skills and parlay their successes into massive endorsement deals. I was already toying around with notions of a character that might play in that type of arena, but suddenly, the more recognizable aspects of Booster began to take shape. Within a couple of days, those loose ideas galvanized into the concept of a time-traveler who'd come from the future to leverage his knowledge of the past and be a hero.
It's a good thing we don't give endorsement deals to second-place finishers because "Booster Silver" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Enjoy your Olympics, everybody.
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