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— Dan Jurgens (@thedanjurgens) October 31, 2019
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IN HOLLYWOOD
INTRO
DAN JURGENS’ INSPIRATION
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Famed artist and writer Dan Jurgens proposed the Booster Gold series in 1984 around Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985).
Importantly, the character takes his inspiration from famed Olympic athletes from the period such as Peggy Fleming or Dorothy Hamill.
Indeed, they share in common that they used their Olympic fame to promote and sell products and merchandise for personal gain.
BOOSTER GOLD: HERO OR FAILURE?
Dan: Well, I think some of it comes down to this, which is that he is someone who has made a lot of mistakes in the past but is trying to do generally the right thing now—he just has a more awkward way of getting there. And that is just kind of the way of saying that Booster is much more like us than I think most people realize, and generally—and especially back when he was created, in the ’80s in the comics, and this is particularly true of DC’s heroes at the time—they were all generally quite perfect. Whereas Booster Gold is someone who says, yeah, I like to make a little money doing what I do. I like the attention that it gets. I enjoy doing this. I’m not going to have a secret identity. Instead, I’m going to get out and do promotional work. But that’s also because, in his words, “I wasn’t born a millionaire like Bruce Wayne.”
-Dan Jurgens Talks Booster Gold, “Death of Superman” at 30, and Getting His Start in Comics, Twin Cities Geek
VOLUME I
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DAN JURGENS APPRECIATES THE FANBASE
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Though Booster Gold is a C-character from the ’80s, his fanbase has continued to this day. Dan Jurgens remarks to the news of the new Booster Gold TV series in the DC Universe:
Dan: You know, it’s weird because whenever I do conventions or personal appearances or something like that, I get a lot of comments about Booster Gold, among other things I’ve done. I get a lot of books to sign, that kind of thing. But that’s always sort of geographic in nature. So if I’m in New York City, I get those from that area. If I’m in Los Angeles, I get those from that area. And so it never seems quite as focused as it does on something like international social media, and that’s where you really find out—the way these announcements sort of take on a life of their own and the amount of enthusiasm that they that they generate really makes you realize, yeah, Booster has a lot of fans out there, and that’s a lot of fun to see as well.
-Dan Jurgens Talks Booster Gold, “Death of Superman” at 30, and Getting His Start in Comics, Twin Cities Geek