Booster Purple?

[greenygal]

I love Dejanews; you can find the most wonderful bits of trivia there. Presently I'm fascinated by the revelation that in his earliest pre-Crisis conception, Booster Gold was supposed to be a walking collection of Superman memorabilia: Superboy's Legion flight ring (he kept that one, although presumably it's been retconned out by now), Brainiac's forcefield (I have no idea if this differs in any significant way from Brainiac 5's forcefield, which is what he wound up with), and...Lex Luthor's purple-and-green battle-armor. You know, that one, or some variant thereof.

I mean, it's not a bad design for a villain, but I'm utterly at a loss to imagine vain, flashy, ultra-image-conscious Booster Gold wearing the thing. Booster is all about being pretty and shiny. You wouldn't think it would help his PR any to show up looking like a supervillain, either; I hope they at least meant to let him repaint it. And, well, there's the skirt. If Booster is grateful for nothing else in his comics existence, he should be grateful that he did not have to go through his JLI membership wearing a skirt; the mockery would have been endless...

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[greenygal.livejournal.com]

Admittedly we don't know what this concept would have looked like in actual production, and I actually do assume they'd have done a redesign on the armor, as Booster running around in a supervillain outfit would indeed have been terrible PR, and I assume Jurgens would have wanted his new character to have a distinctive look of his own.

All the same, unless it was massively streamlined, putting him in armor at all seems a little unproductive. How can he show himself off properly if he's not wearing skintight spandex? ;)