Superman: Action Comics by Dan Jurgens Omnibus Vol. 2 is now available at, well, I'm not sure exactly. Maybe your Local Comic Shop. More probably your Local Book Store. I mean, the thing is big, 736 pages big. With a $100 cover price, that comes out to just over 13¢ per page.

You'll be getting a lot of Booster Gold for your buck. This hardcover is advertised to reprint 29 comic books between Action Comics #976 and #1053 plus The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special.* Booster Gold appears in 9 of those. That's about 31% pure Gold. Enjoy!

*Technically, The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special isn't an Action comic. The "death" actually occurs in Superman #75, so if it was up to me, I'd have titled this Superman and Action Comics by Dan Jurgens Omnibus Vol. 2. But I'm sure they had their reasons; DC does love their colons.

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Noah has pointed us towards an x.com post from @homeofdcu that writes

David Jenkins has been attached to Booster Gold as a showrunner and executive producer. This would indicate that DC Studios picked up his pilot script for the series.

To substantiate their report, Home of DCU directs readers to the website of the Writers Guild of America (directories.wga.org), where I grabbed this screenshot:

Looks like one step closer. That's pretty cool. Thanks for the good word, Noah.

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Flipping through some issues of 2007's Countdown earlier this week made me think about Daniel Carter, who was teased in a "DC Nation" column as joining the cast of the soon-to-be-launched second Booster Gold series. So I sat down to write a character bio spotlight for Booster Gold's ancestor, but when I looked back at my archive, it turns out I already had one.

Here it is again, as originally presented in February 2019:

The life of any comic book hero would be a lonely one if not for the many characters who have made up their supporting cast. Just as Superman has Lois Lane and Batman has Alfred, Booster Gold has also shared his adventures with quite a few people over the years. Today we look at one of those, Daniel Carter.

After a gruesome injury ruined his promising football career, Daniel Carter had became stuck in an unfulfilling job as Evergreen Insurance Company's fifth-best term-life salesman. He dreamed of being a super hero and reclaiming his lost glory. Perhaps it was that dream — or maybe it was fate — that lured him to Booster Gold's sparsely attended funeral in 52 #18.

Daniel was completely unaware that Michael Jon "Booster Gold" Carter was his descendant until Skeets told him the truth. Unfortunately for Daniel, that was the only truth Skeets told him (52 #19).

Skeets wasn't Skeets at all, but the villainous Mr. Mind in disguise. Fortunately for Daniel, Rip Hunter was already aware of Mr. Mind's schemes. Hunter enlisted Daniel to become the second Carter to don the mask of Supernova, world-famous super hero. Together with faked-his-own-death Booster Gold, Daniel defeated Mr. Mind and saved the multiverse (52 #52). Daniel Carter's dreams had come true!

Afterwards, Booster and Daniel became roommates (Booster Gold Volume 2, #1). Though Daniel meant well, he was also rather stupid. He was often left behind while Booster was out adventuring. This made it easy for Booster's ne'er-do-well father to steal the Supernova costume and use it for evil (Booster Gold Volume 2, #2). It would also present the opportunity for Daniel to meet his future wife, reporter Rose Levin, when she came snooping into Booster Gold's personal life (Booster Gold, Volume 2, #3).

Rip Hunter would eventually recover the Supernova costume, and Daniel would continue to play the role of hero for Rose. He traveled through time to find his wife the perfect gift — and only accidentally gave longtime Justice League foe Starro the Conqueror the ability to conquer all history (Booster Gold, Volume 2, #13). He would redeem himself by protecting Rose from a maurading Black Lantern Blue Beetle in Booster Gold, Volume 2, #27.

Supernova hasn't been seen since Flashpoint, but so long as Booster Gold is still around, Daniel and Rose have to be out there somewhere.

Other People in Booster Gold's Neighborhood:

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