Booster Gold First Appearance: Booster Gold #1 Value

Booster Gold first appeared in his own title, Booster Gold #1, cover-dated February 1986, written and drawn by his creator Dan Jurgens (Wikipedia). GoCollect gives the release date as February 10, 1986, with a 75-cent cover price and 36 pages. PriceCharting notes that the issue also introduces Skeets and the villain Blackguard.

Booster is Michael Jon Carter, a man from 25th-century Gotham City who travels back to the 20th century with future technology and his robot sidekick Skeets to become a famous hero (Wikipedia). Few heroes debut in a #1 of their own series, which makes this one of the easier first appearances to identify.

PriceCharting values for Booster Gold #1 (1986), read on September 25, 2026:

• Ungraded: $29.88 (about 2 sales a week)
• CGC 4.0: $22.16 (rare)
• CGC 6.0: $40.00 (about 1 a year)
• CGC 8.0: $74.89 (about 1 a month)
• CGC 9.2: $85.00 (about 1 a month)
• CGC 9.8: $339.00 (about 1 a week)

PriceCharting's recent sales for 9.6 to 9.8 copies run from about $150 to $410. CGC charges $30 per modern book plus a $5 handling fee per online order (CGC fee page, September 25, 2026), so grading only clearly pays if a copy could reach 9.6 or 9.8. PriceCharting also mentions Canadian price variants, and GoCollect lists three variations of #1, so match your cover price to the right listing.

Comics, per Wikipedia:

• Justice League International (late 1980s to early 1990s), where he forms the "Blue and Gold" friendship with Blue Beetle (Ted Kord).
• 52 (2006 to 2007).
• Booster Gold vol. 2 (from 2007).
• Justice League: Generation Lost (2010).

Screen appearances, also per Wikipedia:

• Justice League Unlimited: the episode "The Greatest Story Never Told", with Tom Everett Scott voicing Booster and Billy West voicing Skeets.
• Smallville: season 10, episode 18, "Booster", with Eric Martsolf as Booster.
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold: Scott and West return as Booster and Skeets.
• Legends of Tomorrow: Donald Faison plays a variation called "Mike" in the series finale, "Knocked Down, Knocked Up".
• DC Universe: a Booster Gold series for HBO Max is in development.

Extraño is DC's first openly gay superhero, according to both DC's own blog and Wikipedia. He was created by Steve Englehart and Joe Staton and first appeared in Millennium #2 (January 1988). DC notes that older characters, such as Obsidian and Pied Piper, came out as gay later on. The sources we read do not describe Booster Gold as LGBT.

• Title and date: Booster Gold #1, February 1986, DC; the 1986 series is volume 1, and the 2007 series restarted at #1, so check the year.
• Cover price: 75 cents on a US copy; a different printed price points to a Canadian price variant, which PriceCharting lists separately.
• Creator credit: Dan Jurgens is credited for the story and the cover.

• Indicia: the small print on the first page or inside cover gives the title, issue number, date and publisher; reprints and facsimiles usually say so there.
• Cover price and barcode: a price or barcode format that did not exist in the year printed means a later edition.
• Paper and staples: old newsprint tans at the edges; bright white pages on an old date are a warning sign.
• Restoration: color touch, trimmed edges and replaced covers are common on expensive keys; a grading service can detect them. See spot a fake or restored comic.

Shoot the front cover flat, straight on, in even light, then the indicia and the back cover. The ComicLens app reads the title, issue number and cover and matches them to the checks on this page, and there are free scans every day. The indicia photo settles most reprint and variant questions.

Research and drafting were assisted by AI, and every fact was checked against the sources listed at the bottom of the page: Wikipedia (Booster Gold; Extraño), GoCollect, PriceCharting, CGC fee page and DC's blog. Prices are PriceCharting figures read on September 25, 2026 unless another source and date are named; they move with the market.