Booster gold

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Booster Gold is the title of a series of comic publications that the US publisher DC-Comics has published since 1986.

The comics in the Booster Gold series are about the adventures of a time-traveling football player and self-promoter and are part of the science fiction genre. In addition, there are mostly humorous and parodic elements.

Publications under the Booster Gold title

The first series under the title Booster Gold appeared on a monthly basis between February 1986 and February 1988 and reached 25 issues. The American Dan Jurgens was the author and draftsman of all issues in this series, while artists such as Mike DeCarlo alternated as ink draftsmen .

Between 1987 and 1994, countless stories focusing on Booster Gold's experiences appeared in the genre parodic comic series Justice League International , written by authors such as Keith Giffen and JM DeMatteis, about Booster Gold's adventures with the superheroes of the Justice League . In addition, there were later offshoots of the Justice League with Booster Gold participation such as Extreme Justice (1994 to 1996) and the newer titles They called Justice League (2003) and fortunately that is not the Justice League (English: "I can't believe it's not the Justice League").

Following publisher announcements in 2007, a new Booster Gold series (titled: All New Booster Gold ) is planned to be launched on the US market from 2008 . This will appear on a monthly basis following official publisher announcements and as an ongoing series, that is, conceptually designed for an unlimited duration. The slogan "The Greatest Hero the World Will Never Know" has been planned as the subtitle for this new series . The authors of this series are the Americans Geoff Johns and Jeff Katz, and the draftsmen Jurgens and Norm Rapmund .

The Booster Gold series has been written by Keith Giffen and JM DeMatteis since 2010 and issue 32 #. The Man Of Gold was also published that year . In 2012 it was published in German by Fischerverlag KJB as Superman and the Man of Gold . Booster Gold as a time traveler and former super villain becomes a superhero and takes out the super villain Stompa.

Plot and main character

At the center of the plot of Booster Gold is the professional football player Michael Jon Carter, who lives in the future world of the 25th century (precisely: the year 2462) . After Carter shamefully fails as a football player due to a knee injury and a violation of the regulations of his sports league (he bets on a sports match in which he participates), the fallen sports star takes on the less prestigious job of a night watchman in the space museum of his hometown Metropolis. Fascinated by the exhibits from the 20th century on display there, Carter decided to take advantage of the extensive technical possibilities of his time - which also included time travel - to travel to the 20th century in order to become a hero of the masses as a "daredevil from the future" and thus finally to achieve the fame he so longingly strived for.

Before he leaves his meager presence, Carter steals some of the high-tech exhibits of the space museum - a ring that gives the wearer the ability to fly, a force field belt that shields the wearer against external attacks, and combat armor that increases his physical strength enables him to fire bursts of energy - in order to get the technical means in hand to be able to succeed as a high-tech hero in the 20th century.

The smart robot Skeets (a small, free-flying, bird-sized, can-like robot) accompanies him on his journey into the 20th century, and from then on is at his side with advice and technical help.

Arrived in the 20th century, Carter saves the life of US President Ronald Reagan from an assassin named Chiller. When the president asks his name, the confused Carter first mentions his former nickname as an athlete - Booster - and then the code name he had come up with for his career - Goldstar - from which the exuberant Reagan simply fabricated the name Booster Gold, the Carter stuck from now on.

After that, Booster Gold, as Carter calls himself, continues his career as a superhero, dealing with commercial threats such as the criminal syndicate of the 1000, the hyper-intelligent worm Mister Mind, as well as crooks and mercenaries such as the Rainbow Raider and Shockwave gets. In addition, he is active as an entrepreneur on his own behalf by profitably marketing his own heroic deeds: together with his agent Dirk Davis and his friend Ted Kord (who accompanies him on many of his adventures as the superhero Blue Beetle ) he is building his own holding company ( Goldstar , Inc. , in later stories: Booster Gold International ) which aims to exploit the Booster Gold product commercially and their absurd "projects" presented in a tongue-in-cheek and ironic manner are the real thread of the Booster Gold stories in the Booster series Gold (1986 to 1988) and Justice League International (1987 to 1994) form: Carter and Kord operate unsuccessfully as moving companies, produce Booster Gold mugs, T-shirts and toys, act as advertising media, and open a holiday resort on a living island called Kooey Kooey and Kooey start a marketing-savvy group of heroes called Conglomerate . A leitmotif of many of these adventures is the alienation of other superheroes about Booster Gold's greed for media attention and financial profit.

Booster Gold stories in the less humorous editions of Justice League and its branches Extreme Justice , Infinite Crisis and 52 told, among other things, how Carter supports Superman in the fight against the monster Doomsday (whose name he coined), how he loses his arm during an operation , has to cope with the death of his sister Michelle, enters into an ominous pact with the villain Monarch and temporarily exchanges his Booster Gold identity for the identity of a new hero named Supernova. In addition, there are various costume changes in which he - fashion and zeitgeist conscious - tries to adapt his outfit to the respective fashion taste.

According to the publisher Booster Golds, the Booster Gold series, which will start in 2008, will deal with time travel in various epochs and in various locations in the DC universe . In addition to Carter, Skeets, the time traveler Rip Hunter and Carter's ancestor Daniel Carter (as a new supernova) are intended as secondary characters in this series .

Adaptations in other media

• The producers Paul Dini and Bruce Timm produced an episode of the cartoon series Justice League Unlimited in 2003 , which tells a Booster Gold story and entitled "The Greatest Story Never Told". The episode is about how Booster Gold - which was dubbed in the US original by Tom Everett Scott - together with Skeets ( Billy West ) and the scientist Dr. Tracy Simmons has to stop one of Tracy's colleagues who inadvertently threatens to destroy an entire city as a walking black hole . In this story, Booster Gold's addiction to fame is humorously taken up, which initially leads to his getting no further help from the league because no one takes his emergency calls seriously, and Booster learns that the fame of a superhero comes from the sincerity of his deeds.

• Booster Gold appears again in the 17th episode of the animated series Batman: The Brave and the Bold , in which he stands by Batman as the "hero of the day". At first his motive is exclusively fame, money and prestige, but when Skeets is kidnapped, he decides, not entirely without Batman's help, to do the right thing and save his partner. Booster Gold was voiced by Tom Everett Scott .

• Booster also has a guest appearance in the 18th episode of the 10th season of the TV series Smallville . He is played in the episode by the American actor Eric Martsolff .