Booster Gold #6

(March 2008)

52 Pick-Up, Chapter 6: Meet the Beetles (Table of Contents: 1)

Booster Gold / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Geoff Johns; Jeff Katz

Pencils

Dan Jurgens (pencil art)

Inks

Norm Rapmund (finished art)

Colors

Hi-Fi

Letters

Randolph Gentile

Genre

superhero

Characters

Booster Gold; Skeets; Rip Hunter; Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Blue Beetle [Jaime Reyes]; Blue Beetle (from the 27th century); Jason Todd (?) (cameo); Red Robin (cameo); Elongated Man (cameo); Batman [Bruce Wayne] (cameo); Sherlock Holmes (cameo); Shade [Rac Shade] (cameo); Starman [Jack Knight] (cameo); Madmen (cameo); Max Lord; Mister Miracle (cameo); Dr. Fate (cameo); Green Lantern [Guy Gardner] (cameo); Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] (cameo); Bloodwynd (cameo); Doomsday (cameo); Black Canary [Dinah Lance] (cameo); Oracle [Barbara Gordon] (cameo); Daniel Carter; Rose Levin; O.M.A.C.

Synopsis

Despite Rip Hunter's warnings, Booster joins the Blue Beetles and travels to the past to save Ted Kord. Meanwhile, Rip recruits Daniel Carter.

Reprints

• in Booster Gold (DC, 2008 series) #1 - 52 Pick-Up ([July] 2008)
• in 100% DC (Panini Deutschland, 2005 series) #16 - Booster Gold: Im Strom der Zeit ([Oktober] 2008)
• in Booster Gold (DC, 2009 series) #1 - 52 Pick-Up ([July] 2009)

Indexer Notes

There are a few Beatles references, including the story title, which is a play on the title of the first Beatles album released in the US, and the first panel on p. 4, which is a visual refence to the album cover of the Beatles' Abbey Road. The Sherlock Holmes panel is taken from the cover to Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #572. Booster's review of Ted Kord's career as Blue Beetle includes scenes of Ted Kord taking over from his predecessor, fighting the Madmen, at one of the Monitor's tuning forks from Crisis on Infinite Earths (DC, 1985 series), a version of the cover of Justice League (DC, 1987 series) #1, the Justice League fighting Doomsday, and working with the Birds of Prey. In the files Ted Kord sees on Booster Gold are pictures from when Booster wore armor towards the end of the Justice League America series, from the Conglomerate series in Justice League Quarterly (DC, 1990 series), and from the cover of Formerly Known As the Justice League (DC, 2003 series) #1.