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Jon Hancock
Feb 15, 2004, 01:07 am
<img src="http://comixfan.com/xfan/images/headshots/dc/boostergold.gif" align=left alt=>Real Name: Michael John Carter
First Appearance: Booster Gold #1
Known Relatives: Ellen Carter (mother, deceased), Michelle Carter (GoldStar II twin sister, presumed dead), Gladys (wife)
Group Affiliation: Justice League of America III (reservist) formerly Justice League International, Conglomerate, Extreme Justice, Super Buddies
Known Allies: Blue Beetle (deceased), Skeets, Firehawk, Professor Hamilton
Major Enemies: Manga Kahn, Overlord, Doomsday
Height: 6'5
Weight: 215lbs
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blonde

Michael Jon Carter was a football star from a Metropolis of the 25th century. At the height of his career he was busted for illegal gambling and barred from the sport. Destitute, he was forced to take a job as a night watchman at the famous Metropolis Space Museum, where he had a lot of time to study up on the heroes of the late 20th century and their nemeses. One evening, Mike hit upon the plan of becoming a late 20th century hero. With the help of a security robot named Skeets, he stole all of his special equipment from displays in the museum and used the time machine of Rip Hunter (another of the museum's displays) to jet himself back to the 20th century.

Since Booster had done his homework, he was able to storm on to the heroing scene with a splash. In the first few months of his career, Booster was getting lucrative endorsement deals and huge licensing contracts. In no time at all, Booster found himself firmly entrenched in the position of "America's most popular hero." Booster used all of this cash and attention to set up Booster Gold International, a gigantic holding company and tax shelter. But as luck would have it, Booster's press agent turned out to be a top secret operative for the millennia-old race of intergalactic androids known as the Manhunters. While Booster was helping Earth's heroes protect the Chosen during the Millennium affair, his press agent secretly bankrupted BGI. By the time the smoke cleared, Booster was flat broke. Worse, he had lost his twin sister, Michelle, who had tagged along as Goldstar (II).

Booster was inducted into the Justice League by the mysterious Maxwell Lord just a few months before he went bankrupt. He later supplemented his Justice League income with the odd dollar earned by "The Blue and the Gold." This super-powered repossession service was established with Blue Beetle, Ted Kord.

When the island of Kooey Kooey Kooey was ceded to the JLI as a landed holding, Booster and Beetle built a huge resort and casino called Club JLI on the island. Their get-rich-quick scheme was foiled, however, when Major Disaster and Big Sir managed to break the casino's bank. Booster and Beetle were assigned housecleaning chores by Maxwell Lord as a punishment for using JLI funds in this fiasco, a situation that so humiliated Booster that he promptly quit the JLI and struck out on his own. Over the next few weeks, he began recruiting heroes for a team of his own. Called the Conglomerate, the team consisted of Booster Gold, Gypsy, Praxis, Maxi-Man, Vibe's brother Reverb, Echo, and Vapor.

After the team parted ways Booster rejoined Superman's new JLA. During the battle with Doomsday, his costume, which supplied all his powers, was destroyed, and Beetle built him a bulky suit of armour, which was constantly malfunctioning. More change occurred when he lost an arm and sustained fatal injuries in the battle with the Overmaster. Beetle quickly assembled a new suit to sustain his life functions. This suit was bulky and equally unreliable but came equipped with a cybernetic arm.

When the JLA splintered, Booster joined Captain Atom's short-lived Extreme Justice group. In that time, he was fully healed by Monarch and could again remove his armour without dying. Skeets was installed into this new suit, along with technology from his colleagues, Zan and Jayna's alien ship (called the flesh driver). This suit was destroyed, too, and he got a new costume from S.T.A.R. Labs' Professor Hamilton. This suit is made from leftover materials from "blue" Superman's containment suit.

Recently, Booster has pursued more entrepreneurial, than heroic endeavours. He is partners in Ted Kord's Blue & Gold Software and opened his own restaurant, Planet Krypton. For a brief time, he had a personal and professional relationship with Firehawk. Currently, the ever-opportunistic Booster is married to a woman many decades his senior who just happens to be ridiculously wealthy. As a respite from that arrangement, he recently accepted Maxwell Lord's offer to join a regrouping of his original Justice League comrades in the Superbuddies. Sadly, he has discovered that he no longer shares much in common with his former best friend, Blue Beetle. However, despite their non-stop quarrelling and bickering, the duo's friendship still remains apparent.

Booster's personality seems to go through changes with astonishing and unpredictable frequency. Sometimes he's energetic, dashing, hip, handsome, and cocky. Other times he's immature, hyperactive, and excitable. His mood swings between these two extremes without rhyme or reason at times. For Booster, super-heroing really is a business, and he'll use his powers and abilities to make a buck wherever and whenever possible; but he does have a genuine compassion for the innocent and downtrodden.

During the Crisis that struck the entire Universe, Booster's life was turned upside down as the Blue Beetle was shot dead by Maxwell Lord. Since then Booster strived to uncover the plot behind the OMAC project but fell behind the scenes as he became out of his depth very quickly. Following the final defeat of the alternate Superboy, Booster opportunistically used his knowledge of the future, combined with his newly rebuilt buddy Skeets, to predict and pre-empt crime in Metropolis. Gaining more sponsorships than his suit could manage, everything was rosey for Booster until his hiring of an actor to pose as a villian was uncovered by Ralph Dibny. Dibny had previously asked Booster for help in discovering who was taunting him by desecrating his wife's grave but Booster rejected because he couldn't make money from the investigation.

More worrying is the fact that Skeet's memory banks are proving increasingly inaccurate. Missing key events and data on new heroes, Booster has tried to find help in finding what happened to time by contacting Rip Hunter, only to find that Rip has disappeared, though leaving repeated messages and warnings, blaming Booster for everything that has happened to time.

Booster's powers come entirely from the suit he chooses to wear. Initially equipped with nothing more than a Legion of Super Heroes flight ring and a force field belt, Booster's suits have since included energy blasting gauntlets. When Beetle constructed armour for him it provided a special Midas Mode which increased the suit's performance tenfold. As well as this the exo-skeleton increased his speed, stamina, strength and agility. However, the suit was heavily unreliable and frequently broke down. Currently Booster uses a suit much like his original with capability for flight, personal forcefield generation and concussive blasts from his wrists.


APPEARANCES:
Action Comics #594, 663, 675
Adventures of Superman #476, 478, 488-489, 497
Adventures of Superman Annual #4
Animal Man #22
Blue Beetle #22
Booster Gold #1-25
Captain Atom #16-17, 20, 24-28
Chase #4
DC Bonus Book #7
Doom Patrol (2nd series) #29-30
Eclipso #14-18
Eclipso: The Darkness Within #2
Extreme Justice #0-7, 9-11, 13-18
Final Night #1, 3
Flash (2nd series) #21
Formerly Known as the Justice League #1-6
Green Lantern (3rd series) #81, #115-116
Guy Gardner #15
Guy Gardner/Warrior #29
Invasion! #2-3
JLA #27, #38
JLA: Our Worlds at War #1
Justice League #2-6
Justice League America #27, 29, 31-38, 40, 51, 53, 56, 58 #61-71, 74-78, 81, 83-91
Justice League America Annual #6, 9, 10
Justice League Annual #1
Justice League Europe #7-8, 33-34, 49-50
Justice League International (1st series) #7-9, 11-25
Justice League International (2nd series) #65-66
Justice League International Annual (1st series) #2
Justice League Quarterly #1, 3, 9-10, 12
Justice League Special #1
Justice League Spectacular #1
Justice League Task Force #13-14
Millennium #1-8
Mr Miracle (2nd series) #7-8, 10, 13-14, 17, 19
New Teen Titans (2nd series) #29-30
Secret Origins (2nd series) #35
Suicide Squad (1st series) #13
Superboy and the Ravers #8
Superman (2nd series) #65-66, 74, 124, 142
Superman Annual (2nd series) #3
Superman: Day of Doom #1
Superman: The Man of Steel #10, 20
The Kingdom: Planet Krypton
Time Masters #1, 4
Total Justice #1-2
Underworld Unleashed #2-3
Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! #1-3

Monolith
Feb 15, 2004, 04:23 am
I gotta ask: first bio ever for the DC Comics section...and you choose BOOSTER GOLD? ;)

Jon Hancock
Feb 15, 2004, 04:27 am
It's a shout out to my big bro. I wanted to get the legend in first.

What d'ya think?

Mesran
Feb 15, 2004, 04:56 am
Never heard of him. Though I have trouble remembering Batman's real name...

Great bio though ;)

breakadawn
Feb 15, 2004, 10:40 am
Very comprehensive youngster.

Ya did real good !!

And the guy whose named after a sixth string x-men villain is criticizing the choice of Booster Gold ? ;)

Monolith
Feb 15, 2004, 01:36 pm
Originally posted by breakadawn
Very comprehensive youngster.

Ya did real good !!

And the guy whose named after a sixth string x-men villain is criticizing the choice of Booster Gold ? ;)

And the guy named after a time of day is criticizing the guy who's named after a sixth string X-Men villain? ;)

Zach Kinkead
Feb 15, 2004, 07:02 pm
He was a night watchman at that museum? I always thought he was a janitor. I guess you really do learn something new every day ;)

Originally posted by Monolith
And the guy named after a time of day is criticizing the guy who's named after a sixth string X-Men villain? ;)

The Merchandise Will Be Silent!

:p

Roberto Polanco
Feb 17, 2004, 08:40 am
who was the catastrofic fool that gave Jonberg a position of power writing DC bios? Have you no regard for hunmanity?!?!?!?!?


ps: great bio, but the power descrition could get some more work, like giving abilities for each suit :D

Jon Hancock
Feb 18, 2004, 02:13 am
Essentially each suit did the same. The armoured ones just gave him extra strength and the midas mode but messed up all the time. currently he's just got the flight, forcefield, power blasters

raul grau
Mar 8, 2004, 02:51 am
This was another good bio, Jonberg, though I have to agree that the suit section could be beefed up a bit. Also, you ignored the major revelations that came with Millennium and the later Extreme Justice issues, concerning Booster's potential as the next evolutionary step for humanity. As you may be able to tell, I'm a huge fan of the character, plus the Giffen JL remains my favorite incarnation of the team, so I will probably be reading your Blue Beetle bio next.

And to add to your appearance list, Booster was (out of costume) in The Kingdom: Planet Krypton, which did take place in standard continuity. He (and the majority of the DC universe characters for that matter) also appeared in the issue of Guy Gardner: Warrior with the die-cut cover which featured the opening of Warriors, though the exact issue number escapes me at the moment.

- Raul

ZOD
Mar 8, 2004, 04:07 am
Originally posted by jcknite
He (and the majority of the DC universe characters for that matter) also appeared in the issue of Guy Gardner: Warrior with the die-cut cover which featured the opening of Warriors, though the exact issue number escapes me at the moment.
That would be issue 29 (Beau Smith rocks!).

Wolverine
Mar 17, 2004, 02:51 am
Booster is currently affiliated with Supperbuddies not formerly

Jon Hancock
Mar 17, 2004, 02:54 am
well...at the end of formerly known the superbuddies franchise dissolved. (unless my memory's playing tricks again) until I can't believe it's not the JLA then I'm sticking with formerly.

Wolverine
Mar 17, 2004, 08:27 am
I just reread the issue and there is nothing about the Superbuddies being dissolved. Hell Max sends Gnort to start another chapter of the Supperbuddies in Antarctica (yeah yeah I know). SO no it was not dissolved

Jon Hancock
Mar 17, 2004, 09:14 am
are you sure? I'm not going to be able to check for a while yet but I'm sure that the rest of the team were basically through and the whole g'nort thing was a sarcasm thing. Ah well. It's my bio and I'm waiting till I can't believe it's not the Justice League comes out before I change anything :p

Wolverine
Mar 17, 2004, 09:32 am
fair enogh

Captain America
Apr 8, 2004, 10:32 am
Originally posted by Jonberg
Michael Jon Carter was a football star from a Metropolis of the 25th century. At the height of his career he was busted for illegal gambling and barred from the sport. Destitute, he was forced to take a job as a night watchman at the famous Metropolis Space Museum, where he had a lot of time to study up on the heroes of the late 20th century and their nemeses. One evening, Mike hit upon the plan of becoming a late 20th century hero. With the help of a security robot named Skeets, he stole all of his special equipment from displays in the museum and used the time machine of Rip Hunter (another of the museum's displays) to jet himself back to the 20th century. [/B]

Hey, I actually really like that origin. It's quite original, and fun. Too bad he turned out to be a bit of a money-grabbing lout if the rest of the bio is anything to go by.

Jon Hancock
Apr 8, 2004, 03:35 pm
he was leaving that time period to gain fame in the 20th century. booster's always been about the benjamins. but he's hardly a lout. a loveable fool is a more apt description.

Feral Wolverine
Apr 7, 2005, 10:17 pm
Booster's unnamed wife's first name has been revealed to be Gladys in JLA:Classified #4.

Xkhyber
Sep 4, 2005, 11:59 pm
So.. when Booster says the he doesnt know what happened to Skeets.. that isnt correct..

they changed continuity.. I didnt know Skeets was put into his current costume. What issue did that happen in???