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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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:

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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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The following entry was originally posted on the Boosterrific! Blog as the very first in the series of "secret history" posts on July 2, 2013, when a youthfully naive USA was preparing to celebrate her 237th birthday and you could still trust everything you saw on the Internet.

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress passed Virginian Richard Henry Lee's resolution for independence from Great Britain, and thus was born the United States of America.

The adoption of the declaration of that new-found independence two days later is what we now celebrate, but the real secret of America's independence is the role that Booster Gold played in ensuring it ever happened.

What really happened in Independence Hall in the summer of 1776? The world may never know.

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