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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Keeping with the team-up theme established with Monday's post, Booster Gold is in two comics today in which the DC Comics universe crosses over with other "universes" of content.

DC K.O. Boss Battle #1 one-shot has 8 covers, most of which feature some kind of team-up between different universes. The preview at AIPTComics.com makes clear that Booster Gold is certainly in the issue; he's being controlled by Darkseid, so that's a kind of a team-up.

And, as we already knew from recent DC house ads, Booster teams up with professional commentator Excalibur in DC x AEW #1 (also available for preview at AIPTComics.com) for the first issue of the 2-part crossover between a bunch of larger-than-life characters wearing spandex and the DC Comics universe.

That's a lot of crossing over. Surely it's no accident that this week is also seeing the re-release of 1981's Marvel Treasury Edition #28, better known as DC and Marvel Present: Superman and Spider-Man! Must be something in the water.

Anyway, DC K.O. Boss Battle #1 and DC x AEW #1 combine for 13 different covers and somehow Booster Gold is on none of them. So buyer's choice! Pick up the cover you like best of either of those issues, Booster boosters, and make Skeets (and his cross-company counterparts) happy.

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I'm beginning to wonder if anyone loves comics books as much as Ross Pearsall, whose Super-Team Family cross-company team-up covers continue to amaze and delight.

Sometimes, I think Ross is making covers just for my personal amusement. Take, for example, these three consecutive covers he released late in January (click on any of the images to visit the original, with Ross's notes, at braveandboldlost.blogspot.com):

I sure hope that the recently announced Superman/Spider-Man crossover is a huge success. I could really use a comic in which Booster Gold tries to straighten out the history of the Marvel Universe.

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