Comic Title: Booster Gold #22
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: November 1987
On Sale Date: August 18, 1987 Newsstand Date August 18, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #42

Newsstand Date August 18, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #123

Shipping Date July 28, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #123

Shipping Date July 28, 1987
Source: Focus, #1, Page BC

Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32
Editor: Barbara J. Kesel (Randall)

Title: "Tortured Options"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Booster Gold (Post-Crisis)

Writer/Penciller: Dan Jurgens
Inker: Ty Templeton
Letterer: Steve Haynie
Colorist: Eugene D'Angelo

Reprinted In:
Showcase Presents Booster Gold Vol. 1 TPB (2008)
Booster Gold:Future Lost HC (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Booster Gold (last appearance in Booster Gold #21; next appearance in Action Comics #594)

Guest Star(s)

• Justice League (last appearance in Doctor Fate #3; next appearance in Justice League International #8)
• Batman (last appearance in Batman #412; next appearance in Detective Comics #579)
• Black Canary (last appearance in Justice League International #7; next appearance in Justice League International #8)
• Blue Beetle (last appearance in Blue Beetle #19; next appearance in Justice League International #8)
• Captain Atom (last appearance in Captain Atom #8; next appearance in Captain Atom #9)
• Doctor Fate (Eric Strauss; last appearance in Doctor Fate #4; next appearance in Millennium #1)
• Guy Gardner (last appearance in Doctor Fate #3; next appearance in Justice League International #8)
• Martian Manhunter (last appearance in Doctor Fate #3; next appearance in Justice League International #8)
• Mister Miracle (last appearance in Action Comics #593; next appearance in Justice League International #8)
• Rocket Red #7 (last appearance in Justice League International #7; next appearance in Justice League International #8)

Supporting Character(s)

• Trixie Collins (last appearance in Booster Gold #21; next appearance in Action Comics #594)
• Dirk Davis (last appearance in Booster Gold #21; next appearance in Booster Gold #23)
• Skeets (last appearance in Booster Gold #21; next appearance in Booster Gold #23)
• Michelle Carter (dies in this story; last appearance in Booster Gold #21; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Aliens from Dimension X (Rangor named; last appearance in Booster Gold #21; no further appearances)
• A giant (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Mackenzie Garrison (last appearance in Booster Gold #21; next appearance in Booster Gold #24)

Comments:
This story is continued from Booster Gold #21.

Synopsis:
Booster is faced with a choice to save Michelle in Dimension X or return to Earth and stop a giant that is threatening thousands of people. Booster elects to send Skeets to save Michelle and returns home. When he is unable to stop the giant by himself, Booster calls the Justice League for help. Working together they are able to defeat the monster.

Booster then returns to Dimension X. Skeets has rescued Michelle, and they begin making their escape. However, Booster learns of a pending invasion from an alien army. He destroys the device which could transport the army to Earth, but in doing so, he also causes the entire building to collapse.

He and Michelle safely reach the gateway to return to Earth. While configuring the controls, the machine explodes killing Michelle. Booster is thrown through the gateway as it is destroyed. He and Skeets make it back to Earth, but Michelle is gone. At the funeral, Doctor Fate sends Michelle's headstone into a different realm, while Trixie wonders how Booster could have been in Dimension X when she saw him harassing Superman at the same time.