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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Thing 1: Regarding my conundrum of removing non-unique appearances from the Boosterrific! Database, Booster boosters seem to generally prefer that Boosterrific.com lists only comics with distinct Booster Gold appearances (option B). Rather than throw away that data forever, I've tried to ensure that there are now only two places on the site where you'll find links to those issues (the lists of books for specific advertisements accessible via the Advertisements page and the dropdown to select issues on the Comic Books landing page). Hopefully that will satisfy the largest number of critics, including the annoying little voice in the back of my mind that continues to complain about choices made by younger me.

Thing 2: As you're probably aware, Supergirl, um, underpeformed at the box office on its opening weekend. As the always-worth-reading ProgressiveRuin.com points out, there's probably more than one reason for that. (I'm part of the problem; I didn't see it either. Widely advertising that it's based on the work of my least favorite writer is a pretty good way to make sure I stay away.) Whatever the exact cause(s), there's no way the end result at the box office helps the development of the forever-in-the-works Booster Gold television show. Maybe people will respond better to Lanterns.

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Justice League America #86 from 1994 is the first issue by artist Dan Campos, whose style herein presents as an obvious attempt by DC Comics to ape the more, uh, "dynamic" styles of some of the more famous artists of the era. I consider this the dawn of the very-hard-to-look-at EXTREME era of the Justice League, which, perhaps not-so-coincidentally, coincides with the collapse of the 1990s speculation market.

(I'm not saying Extreme Justice single-handedly killed the 90s comics boom, but I might be suggesting that when staid, old DC Comics tries to get hip with what the cool kids are into, that bubble might be past ready to burst.)

All of which may be contributing to why my favorite page in this issue is the one that sees a resurrected Superman politely declining to rejoin the league.

Get out while the getting's good, Supes. Even Guy Gardner knows you're better than this.

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