Useless question about Booster Gold and Superman

[NSPhillips]

Booster Gold #6 appears to be the first appearance of the post-Crisis Superman. Supes meets Booster for the first time and he has never seen a Legion flight ring before. This was a couple months before Byrne's Man of Steel.

 

The letters column in subsequent issues makes it clear that Booster's adventures are all post-Crisis and that he never existed in the multiverse, even though a couple elements of the pre-Crisis world showed up in the early issues (like Jimmy Olsen working at WGBS).

 

Have I spent too much time reading 20 year old comics? How do I get my epic discovery recognized by the community as a whole?!?

[thomasdacat]

I don't get it .

[50 Cent #II (1st)]

Either do I. Something to do with the Legion flight ring that post-Crisis Superman hasn't seen before? Or something about Booster Gold?

[NSPhillips]

One revision to Byrne's Superman was that he was never Superboy and thus had never been in or met the Legion. The Pre-Crisis Superman had met them dozens of times. Therefore this appearance is the Byrne Superman, but this book came out after Crisis but a few months before Man of Steel #1.

 

My question was, shouldn't this issue be regarded as the "first appearance" of Superman, in the same way that a big deal is made over the first appearance of Spidey's black costume?

[50 Cent #II (1st)]

I see, now that's a bit more interesting...

[joker-fish]

Have I spent too much time reading 20 year old comics?

 

yep