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Booster Gold Trivia | 70 facts about the comic book character

Booster Gold is a fictional superhero appearing in comic books published by DC Comics.

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Booster Gold (Michael Jon Carter) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics
Created by Dan Jurgens
The character first appeared in Booster Gold #1 (February 1986)
He has been a member of the Justice League
He is initially depicted as a glory-seeking showboat from the future, staging high-publicity heroics through his knowledge of historical events and futuristic technology
Carter develops over the course of his publication history and through personal tragedies to become a hero weighed down by his reputation
The character has been portrayed in live action television by Eric Martsolf in Smallville
Αnd by Donald Faison in the seventh season of the Arrowverse series Legends of Tomorrow
The character will appear in an upcoming self-titled television series on Max
The series will be set in the DC Universe (DCU) media franchise
Booster Gold first appeared in Booster Gold #1 (February 1986), being the first significant new character introduced into DC Universe continuity after Crisis on Infinite Earths
The next year, he began to appear regularly in the Justice League series remaining a team member until the group disbanded in 1996
He and his former Leaguers subsequently appeared as the “Superbuddies” in the Formerly Known as the Justice League miniseries and its JLA: Classified sequel “I Can’t Believe It’s Not the Justice League”
At Wizard World Los Angeles in March 2007, Dan DiDio announced a new ongoing series titled All-New Booster Gold
The series follows the events of 52 and was initially co-written by Geoff Johns and Jeff Katz, with art by creator Jurgens and Norm Rapmund
Yhe series focuses primarily on Booster Gold’s clandestine time travel within the DC Universe
The series also features Rip Hunter, Skeets, and Booster’s ancestors Daniel Carter and Rose Levin as supporting characters
Katz and Johns left the book after 12 issues (#1-10, #0, and a One Million issue)
Jurgens and Rapmund stayed
Jurgens assumed writing duties following four issues by guests Chuck Dixon and Rick Remender
In May 2010, Keith Giffen took over the Booster Gold title, linking it with the 26-week miniseries Justice League: Generation Lost
In which Booster united with Fire, Ice and Captain Atom to defeat the resurrected Maxwell Lord
From July 2010 through February 2011, Booster starred alongside Rip Hunter, Green Lantern, and Superman in the six-issue miniseries Time Masters: Vanishing Point
This was part of the “Return of Bruce Wayne” arc
The arc also reintroduced the Reverse-Flash and established the background for the 2011 DC crossover event Flashpoint
Jurgens returned to the main Booster Gold title with issue #44
Jurgens’s 1984 series proposal for Booster Gold compared the hero to U.S. Olympic Gold athletes such as Dorothy Hamill, Peggy Fleming, and Caitlyn Jenner
He claimed that these athletes had turned “Olympic gold into commercial gold”, selling multiple products based on their fame and past accomplishments
Booster’s origin as a security guard at a future Superman museum was altered when writer/artist John Byrne was brought to DC to reboot Superman’s origin in The Man of Steel
Booster Gold was ranked as the 173rd greatest comic book character of all time by Wizard magazine
IGN also ranked him as the 59th greatest comic book hero
Booster Gold and Skeets appear in Justice League Unlimited, voiced by Tom Everett Scott and Billy West respectively
This version of the duo are members of the Justice League, with Booster Gold originating from the year 2462
Booster Gold and Skeets make a cameo appearance in the Legion of Super-Heroes episode “Man of Tomorrow” as janitors in a Superman museum
Booster Gold and Skeets appear in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced again by Tom Everett Scott and Billy West respectively
This version of the duo are members of Justice League International
Booster Gold appear in Teen Titans Go!, voiced by Fred Tatasciore
This version is in a relationship with Ted Kord
Booster Gold appears in the Mad segment “That’s What Super Friends Are For”
Booster Gold appears in Robot Chicken DC Comics Special as a member of the Justice League
Booster Gold appears in Justice League Action, voiced by Diedrich Bader
Booster Gold and Skeets appear in the Smallville episode “Booster”, portrayed by Eric Martsolf and voiced by Ross Douglas respectively
In November 2011, Syfy ordered a Booster Gold television series, developed by Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg
While the latter submitted a script in early June 2013
The project never came to fruition
Both fans and critics noted similarities between Krypton’s version of Adam Strange and Booster Gold
With many outlets considering the former an amalgamation of the two
Legends of Tomorrow’s executive producers Marc Guggenheim and Phil Klemmer had frequently talked about bringing Booster Gold into the series
However, the character had been off-limits for most of the series’s run
Due to this, some of Booster’s character traits were incorporated into Rip Hunter
Eventually, Donald Faison would portray a variation of Booster Gold in the series finale “Knocked Down, Knocked Up”
This version is “Mike”, who protects a fixed point in time in 1916
While supposedly agreeing to help the Legends, Mike destroys Gwyn Davies’ time machine and hijacks their timeship, the Waverider, to confront his superiors
When the Waverider returns, the Legends find he has been arrested by the Time Police
In January 2023, James Gunn announced a Booster Gold TV series was in development for HBO Max and DC Studios
Booster Gold appears in The Death and Return of Superman, portrayed by Joe Bereta
Booster Gold appears in Batman and Harley Quinn, voiced by Bruce Timm. This version is a member of the Justice League
Booster Gold makes a cameo appearance in Teen Titans Go! To the Movies.
Booster Gold appears as a non-playable character in DC Universe Online, voiced by Tracy W. Bush
Booster Gold appears as a playable character in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham and Lego DC Super-Villains, voiced by Travis Willingham
Booster Gold appears in Smallville Season 11
Booster Gold appears in Legion of Super Heroes in the 31st Century #19
Booster Gold and Skeets appear in the Injustice 2 prequel comic, with the former serving as a friendly rival of Ted Kord’s
A year after the fall of High Councilor Superman’s Regime, Booster time-travels to the present to warn Kord of his impending death
After Kord is fatally wounded by Orca and Killer Croc, Booster visits Kord one more time
With the latter entrusting the former to train Jaime Reyes in his stead and bequeathing Kord Industries to him
Later in the series, a dying Booster is visited by alternate universe versions of himself and Kord, who stay with him until he dies
In 2016, DC Comics implemented another relaunch of its books called “DC Rebirth”
The new series restored its continuity to a form much as it was prior to the New 52
Booster Gold and his robot partner Skeets return in Action Comics #992