Booster Gold - The comic history of DC's time-traveling himbo
After years of development in different capacities, DC's hapless fan-favorite superhero Booster Gold is finally get his own streaming series as part of the first wave of new projects from James Gunn and Peter Safran's DC Studios.
Booster Gold holds the interesting distinction of being one of the first brand new DC heroes introduced after the major continuity reboot that took place in the 1985 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths, which compressed all the timelines of the many worlds of DC's Multiverse into a single continuity, with nearly everything from before the reboot completely redefined or even discarded.
Because of this, Booster is one of the first few heroes of the era who had a completely clean slate from the start with no erased or rewritten history. Debuting in 1986's Booster Gold #1 by writer/artist Dan Jurgens, Booster Gold is actually Michael Jon Carter, a football star from 25th century Gotham City who leaves the sport in disgrace after he's caught betting on his own games.
Stealing some future technology, Carter travels back in time using his advanced gadgets to become the present day superhero Booster Gold, with powers that include flight, a force field, energy beams, and a floating robot sidekick Skeets whose computer brain provides Booster with knowledge of the present to help him get by.
Booster quickly became a member of the newly formed post-Crisis Justice League, where he met his lifelong BFF Ted Kord, the second Blue Beetle. Booster and Beetle became a pair, even fighting alongside each other against Doomsday in the landmark story The Death of Superman.
Later, when Ted Kord was murdered by Maxwell Lord, it was Booster who helped uncover the truth of his death. Booster eventually went on to
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