Name: Booster Gold
Universe: Post-Crisis
Alter Ego: Michael Jon Carter
Occupation: Super-Hero for hire and product endorsements
Marital Status: Single
Group Affiliation: Justice League America
Base of Operations: New York City
Known Relatives: Ellen (mother, deceased), Michelle (twin sister)
Height: 6 ft. 5 in.
Weight: 215 lbs.
Hair Color: Blond
Eye Color: Blue
First Appearance: Booster Gold #10

History:
Several hundred years in the future, Michael Jon Carter was a brilliant college quarterback with great promise as a professional player. This potential was lost, however, when Carter was caught betting on games in which he played. "Booster" Carter, a nickname he received for his tremendous skills, had started gambling in order to pay for his mother's delicate operation. Realizing that he could make enormous amounts of money, he continued to bet even after her recovery and was soon caught. Banished from college athletics and shunned by the pros, Carter drifted throughout the eastern seaboard until he found employment as a janitor in Metropolis's Space Museum, a museum dedicated to preserving great technical and scientific discoveries.

Once there, he realized that he had no future in that era due to his past crimes. But while in college Carter became interested in studying the great heroes of the ages. When he came across Rip Hunter's Time Machine, he knew his future was in Earth's past, so he stole various pieces of advanced equipment, a security robot, and the Time Machine itself, and journeyed back to the 20th century.

Soon after his arrival, Carter discovered a plot devised by the assassin Chiller and the 1000 to kill the President and Vice President of the United States. Carter interfered and bathed in the publicity that resulted. Using that publicity, he took the name Booster Gold and became the world's first super-hero dedicated to commercial pursuits rather than noble causes. Booster formed a corporation, Goldstar, which was designed to accumulate wealth and book him as a commercial spokesman for a variety of products. He hired an agent, Dirk Davis, to oversee his wealth and handle bookings.

Not long after forming this corporation, Booster's mechanical powers began to fade. Since the 20th century lacked the necessary technology to power his equipment, he had to journey back into his own time to get the batteries he needed. There, he discovered himself a wanted man, and was able to escape only with the help of his sister, Michelle, and of Rip Hunter, who traveled back into the past with him. He also managed to bring back energy roads that will power his costume indefinitely.

Thinking it would be good for marketing, Booster convinced his sister that she should become a super-hero as well. She assumed the identity of Goldstar and began working with her brother. Her career was short-lived, as she was killed in action while battling invaders from another dimension.

Distracted by his sister's death, Booster failed to keep an eye on his corporation, now renamed Booster Gold International. This proved fatal as the corporation was being sabotaged from within, plunging B.G.I. and Booster into bankruptcy. Booster has never recovered financially.

Before this incident, Booster was invited by Maxwell Lord to join the Justice League. The other League members rejected Booster, though, liking neither him nor his practice of endorsing various products. Booster proved himself worthy when he played a vital role in defeating the Royal Flush Gang, and he subsequently joined the JLA.

Since then, Booster has spent most of his time trying to rebuild his financial empire. He tried marketing a line of Justice League endorsed products but this scheme was stopped by the Martian Manhunter. After that, he and Blue Beetle built an island resort, a venture that ended in disaster when it was discovered that they stole League funds to finance the project.

Booster Gold is dedicated to rebuilding his fortune and former prominence. If he succeeds, many people will be surprised, for the hero is not regarded to be highly intelligent, organized, or even competent.

Powers:
Booster's powers are all mechanical in nature rather than natural. His great strength is derived from his costume's special fabric. This fabric is actually a microcircuit weave that functions as an exo-skeleton. He wears gloves that are capable of firing energy blasts of adjustable intensity. He also has an energy-absorbing field that works in a manner similar to a force field.

Booster gained the power of flight by taking a Legion of Super-Heroes flight ring from the Space Museum. In addition, his goggles give him night-vision, micro-vision, and infra-red vision.

Booster also brought a Space Museum security robot, code-named Skeets, into the past. With his thorough programming in history, Skeets functioned as a personal guide and adviser. Skeets could fly and was capable of firing low-intensity force bolts. Skeets has been deactivated and currently rests in the Justice League Embassy basement.