Rob Snow alerts me that Booster Gold is in today's Justice League Unlimited #18. And if you recall, two weeks ago, Tony alerted us that Booster Gold also appears in a background panel in today's Superman #37 (or "Legacy 879" if you've been collecting since 1939).

Now, I haven't yet seen the panels from JLU #18, but the Superman panel in question is included in the issue preview at BleedingCool.com, but the important part is this:

Hmm. That looks familiar. Where have I seen that before? Ah, yes, Batman/Superman: World's Finest #20, also drawn by Dan Mora.

I hope this means Mora will be sneaking Booster into the background of more comics. Keep your eyes peeled, Booster boosters!

Thanks, Rob and Tony.

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DC's July solicitations came out late last week, and as Rob Snow wrote to me, tongue firmly in cheek, "still no Absolute Booster." Phew.

But there's not much run-of-the-mill Booster Gold, either, except for his inclusion in a couple of collections, including the inevitable Absolute Power Omnibus and another collection featuring selected stories by Keith Giffen, appropriately titled The DC Universe by Keith Giffen.

The Giffen volume will reprint just a small sample of contributions the prolific writer/artist made through the decades, and it is unclear at this time how much Booster Gold will be in it. If the solicitation is accurate, the answer is a little but not much, which also describes how much of our hero will be on the cover reusing Kevin Maguire's art from the "Remembering Keith Giffen" ad that ran in DC Comics in November 2023:

Keep an eye out for that in September.

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Booster Gold plays only bit parts in Justice League America #77 and #78, and is absent from #79 entirely.

So let's skip ahead to Justice League America #80, where the Corporate Crusader is finally back in super-powered action... in arguably the ugliest costume he'll ever wear.

Yes, that ridiculous suit is bulky and ugly, and it makes Booster look considerably less-than-heroic, which was writer Dan Vado's intention as he started Booster's long journey back from Doomsday's destruction of his original power suit. Sometimes to get to the top, you have to start at the bottom.

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