Super-Comicology: Educate Yourself: Booster Gold

Booster Gold

DC announced a Booster Gold/Blue Beetle movie in the works for the future and to fans of the heroic duo that is very exciting news. It will play as a buddy cop movie and will be directed by Greg Berlanti, known for his work on the CW's Flash and Arrow TV shows. Sadly these two heroes have fallen into obscurity so the aim of this post is to educate you on who Booster Gold actually is, (with a post on The Blue Beetle following soon).

Comic History:

In 1983 DC comics acquired Charlton Comics during the bronze age of comic books. Charlton comics contained the rights to heroes such as Captain Atom, The Question, Blue Beetle and Booster Gold. There was a dispute about whether to have these heroes enter the universe of Watchmen during early stages of development but the auther, Alan Moore decided to make Watchmen an entirely new story and based many of his characters as archetypes of Charlton's heroes, (hence why Rorschach looks like The Question and Dr. Manhattan bears many similarities with Captain Atom). During the following years we began to see more of Booster Gold but not as much compared to the original DC heroes. But he has remained a cult classic and has even been featured in an episode of Smallville, (which was....underwhelming).

Booster Gold in Smallville
Credit: www.smallville.wikia

Character History:

Michael Jon Carter was born in 25th century Gotham. He did not know his father but his future seemed bright. He played football at Gotham University and earned the nickname "Booster", and was looking towards a good education until his father reentered his life and convinced Michael to lose a game on purpose so his father could use the money for gambling. Michael was exposed and kicked out of Gotham University.

After that he moved to metropolis where he secured a job at the Metropolis Space Museum. There he learned a lot about the superheros of the twentieth century. He realized he might have a better future in the past, with the help of a security robot named Skeets he stole artifacts from the past such as a flight ring from the Legion of Super-Heroes, Braniac's force field belt and Rip Hunter's time machine and he escaped back to the twentieth century in order to become famed as a "superhero" under the name of Goldstar. However the names were merged when U.S. President Ronald Reagan messed up when commemorating him.

In the proceeding years he would meet the Blue Beetle, and both of them would go on to fight crime with the Justice League. However, Booster's personality and ever going quest to become the most famous superhero in history makes him a fairly annoying person to work with especially when working with the likes of Batman, Martian Manhunter and Superman.

Booster Gold and Blue Beetle
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Powers:

Flight
Shooting Lasers from hands
Impenetrability (because of his force field belt)
Skeets: his robot companion can give him information on anything and everything.

Various Interpretations: