Booster Gold: Alter Ego: Michael Jon Carter First Appearance: Booster Gold #1 February 1986 Several hundred years in the future, Michael Jon Carter was a college quarterback with a promising future in the pros. When he was caught betting on the outcome of his own games, he was thrown off of the team. "Booster" was his nickname from football. He had started gambling to pay for his mothers expensive operations, but continued after she recovered. He drifted from job to job until he found one as janitor for the Metropolis Space Museum. One of the exhibits was a time machine. Knowing his careers in his century were tainted, Booster stole some pieces of equipment, a security robot (Skeets), and the time machine itself, going back in time to the 20th Century. Booster soon uncovered a plot to assassinate the President of the United States, and became an overnight sensation. Booster enjoyed the publicity, and began to endorse several products, becoming the first hero to get rich in this way. He formed a corporation, which made him a multimillionaire. During a trip back to his own century, he convinced his twin sister Michelle to come to the 20th Century with him and establish her own heroic identity. She did, but Goldstar was soon killed in battle with invaders from another dimension. Before this battle, Booster had been invited to join the newly reformed League by Maxwell Lord. The other League members rejected Booster, not liking his practice of endorsing products. Booster proved his worth by defeating the Royal Flush Gang, and joined the JLA. Since then, Booster has spent most of his time with get-rich-quick schemes, trying to rebuild his financial empire he lost due to carelessness after his sister died. He's tried marketing a line of JLA products, running an island resort with Blue Beetle, and many other schemes, all of which have ended in failure and ridicule. All of Booster's powers are mechanical--his costume was made of a special fabric which forms an exoskeleton. His gloves were power gauntlets, capable of firing energy blasts. The suit also absorbed energy in a manner similar to a force field. He possesses a Legion flight ring, giving him the power of flight, and his goggles give him night-vision, micro-vision, and infrared-vision. After suffering extreme injuries, Booster was sealed into a new suit by Blue Beetle, which keeps him alive, but also limits his activities outside of his heroic persona. The security guard robot, Skeets, was built into the suit and is a source of information for Booster and the team he serves with, currently Extreme Justice.