Booster Gold
Forgotten Justice League members:
The cinematic debut of The Justice League is in 26 days, and to countdown let's take a look at members of the Justice League most have forgotten or never knew about.
Booster Gold was the first new character introduced after 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths megaseries. Created by Dan Jurgens & launched in his own self-titled comic in 1986, Booster Gold was the superhero name of Michael Carter. Born into poverty in 25th Century Gotham City, Carter managed to capitalize on his athletic ability to get a scholarship to Gotham City University and played football as their star quarterback, at least until their father came back into his sister, Michelle, and his lives. A gambler, their father convinced Michael to throw the games to profit, which led to the younger Carter to get expelled and demonized when the plot was made public. Working as a night watchman at the Metropolis Space Museum where he studied the lives & exploits of the superheroes & supervillains of the 20th Century. Eventually Michael steals advanced technology including a Legion of Superheroes flight ring and a special suit giving him other powers including super strength and a force field to protect the wearer.
Carter travels to the past and appears to save President Ronald Reagan from an assassination attempt, when giving his superhero name to Reagan, Michael mixes his nickname "Booster" and "Goldstar" (his chosen 20th Century superhero name) and President Reagan dubs him "Booster Gold", a name which sticks.
Often seen as bumbling and a vainglorious self-promoter that is in it all for the money, taking corporate sponsors & using both future tech & a flying computer named Skeets with knowledge of history to stop crimes, Booster is actually an important figure. Known to audiences, but not to Booster himself, he is the future father of Rip Hunter, the greatest of the Time Masters, a group tasked with protecting Time from those who seek to corrupt it.
Only the Batman knows some of the truth and knows there is more to Booster than what the public sees, and Booster was a member of the Justice League often pairing with the Ted Kord version of the Blue Beetle, a team called "Blue & Gold".
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