Booster Gold

Booster Gold is the title of a series of comic publications are issued by the U.S. publisher DC Comics since 1986.

The comics of the Booster Gold series are about the adventures of a time-traveling football player and showman and are in the science fiction genre based. In addition, 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 editions. Author and illustrator of all the books in this series was the American Dan Jurgens, as Pens acted alternately artists like Mike DeCarlo.

Published between 1987 and 1994 in addition to numerous focusing on the adventures of Booster Gold stories in Keith Giffen and by authors such as JM DeMatteis wrote genreparodistischen comic series Justice League International, the act of Booster Gold's adventures with the super heroes of the Justice League. There were later offshoot of the Justice League with Booster Gold participation as Extreme Justice ( 1994-1996 ) and the newer titles They were called Justice League ( engl: " Formerly known as the Justice League " ) ( 2003) Fortunately this is not the Justice League ( engl: " I can not believe it's not the Justice League ").

After publishing announcements from 2007 is provided from 2008, a new Booster Gold series (titled: All New Booster Gold ) to bring to the U.S. market. This will appear after the official publishing announcements in the monthly cycle and as ongoing series, that is, be conceptually applied for an unlimited duration. As a subtitle for this new series, the slogan " The Greatest Hero the World Will Never Know" planned so far. As authors of this series, the Americans Geoff Johns and Jeff Katz be specified as a draftsman Jurgens and Norm Rapmund.

Since 2010, issue # 32, the Booster Gold series by Keith Giffen and JM is DeMatteis wrote.

Plot and main character

In the center of the plot of Booster Gold is in the future world of the 25th century (precisely the year 2462 ) live professional football player Michael Jon Carter. After Carter due to a knee injury and for breach of the rules of its Sports League ( he is betting on a sports match in which he himself took part) as a football player shamefully fails, the fallen sports star takes on the little prestigious job of night watchman in the Space Museum his hometown Metropolis. Fascinated by the exhibits on show there the 20th century, Carter decides taking advantage of the wide-ranging technical possibilities of his time - which also include the time travel part - to travel to the 20th century, to work there as " daredevils from the future" to the hero of the masses to be and so finally obtain the so eagerly sought by him fame

Before he departs from his meager presence, Carter steals some of the high-tech exhibits at the Space Museum - fly a ring that gives the wearer the ability to create a force field belt that shields the wearer against external attacks, as well as a battle armor that increases his physical strength and enables him to fire bursts of energy - so as to get the technical means in the hand in order to succeed in the 20th century as a high-tech hero can.

On his journey into the 20th century, the smart robot Skeets accompanied him (a small, free-flying, bird large, bush- similar -looking robot ) now taken him with advice and technical assistance to the side.

Arrived in the 20th century rescues Carter the U.S. President Ronald Reagan 's life before an assassin called Chiller. When the president asks him what his name is called the confused Carter initially his former nickname as athletes - Booster - and then the code name he had changed his for his career - Goldstar - from which the exuberant Reagan summarily the name fabricated Booster Gold, who Carter henceforth adheres.

After that is Booster Gold, as Carter now calls itself, on the one hand his career as a superhero gone, where he is dealing with conventional threats such as crime syndicate of 1000, the hyper- intelligent worm Mister Mind, and with thugs and mercenaries like the Rainbow Raider and Shockwave gets. In addition, he is an entrepreneur in his own behalf, by marketing their own exploits profitably: Together with his agent Dirk Davis and his friend Ted Kord ( who accompanies him as a superhero Blue Beetle on many of his adventures ), he builds a separate holding company to ( Goldstar, Inc., in later stories: Booster Gold International) which makes it his goal to exploit the product commercially Booster Gold and presented in their winking, ironic style, abstruse " projects " the actual thread of Booster Gold stories in the series Booster Gold (1986 to 1988) and Justice League International (1987 to 1994) forms: Carter and cord operated unsuccessfully as moving entrepreneurs produce Booster Gold mugs, t -shirts and toys, acting as an advertising medium, open a holiday resort, on a living island called Kooey Kooey Kooey and start a marketing conscious hero group called the Conglomerate. A common theme of many of these adventures is the alienation of other superheroes on Booster Gold's lust for media attention and financial profit.

Booster Gold stories in the less humorous colored editions of Justice League and its offshoots Extreme Justice, Infinite Crisis and 52, among others, as told Carter Superman in the fight against the monster Doomsday stand by (whose name he coined ), as he loses his arm in an application must cope with the death of his sister Michelle, a sinister pact with the villain Monarch arrives and his Booster Gold identity temporarily exchanged for the identity of a new hero called Supernova. There are also several costume changes, in which he - a fashion and zeitgeist aware - tries to adapt his commitment Dress the particular fashion taste.

The 2008 launching Booster Gold series is to act according to information on the publisher of Booster Gold's time travel in a variety of eras and at a variety of locations of the DC Universe. In addition to Carter the time traveler Rip Hunter and Carter's ancestor Daniel Carter ( as a new supernova ) in this series Skeets provided as secondary characters.

Adaptations in other media

• The producer Paul Dini and Bruce Timm -produced 2003 episodes of the cartoon series Justice League Unlimited, which tells a story and Booster Gold under the title "The Greatest Story Never Told". The episode is about how Booster Gold - which was synchronized in the U.S. Original by Tom Everett Scott - along with Skeets ( Billy West ) and the scientist Dr. Tracy Simmons must remain one of Tracy's colleagues, who inadvertently as a walking black hole to destroy an entire city threatened. In this story, the glory Booster Gold is humorously addressed that leads, first, that he does not get more help from the league because no one takes his emergency calls seriously, and booster here learns that the glory of a superhero from the sincerity of his actions is apparent.

• One more time immersed Booster Gold in the 17th episode of the animated series Batman: The Brave and the Bold on where he stands as a " hero of the day " Batman to the side. First, his motive is only fame, money and prestige, but is kidnapped as Skeets, he decides not without Batman's help to do the right thing and save his partner. Booster Gold was again spoken of Tom Everett Scott.

• Moreover booster in the 18th episode of the 10th season of the TV series Smallville has a guest appearance. It is played in the episode of the American actor Eric Martsolff.

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