![]() She was the masked “It” girl.īut the Minutemen weren’t without their own secrets, and Sally Jupiter had her share of sorrows behind the scenes. Her image is littered through newspapers and pinups, and engraved on lighters and painted on fighter planes. Down the line, Jupiter would admit that was her main desire for joining the Minutemen, unlike the Nite Owl, who was led by strong moral obligations to clean up the streets. As her career progressed, she and her manager and later on husband, Laurence Schexnayder, would continue to cash in on her sex symbol status for modeling and acting gigs. ![]() While her male counterparts used brute force to take down criminals, Silk Spectre relied on her feminine charms to literally disarm criminals. Clad in a frothy yellow slip dress and dark satin under-things and fishnets, she became the Silk Spectre, a name plucked from the ether because it reminded her of silk stockings and slipping through someone’s fingers (according to the Under the Hood documentary ). After working as a waitress and burlesque dancer, she found her main meal ticket with the Minutemen. From the beginning, she was on the lookout for the American Dream. The Silk Spectre of the Minutemen era fits so many archetypes of her time-the 1940s-and yet, there’s something much more tantalizingly complex under the glamour and diamond-hard exterior.īorn Sally Juspeczyk, she shortened her name to Jupiter to distance herself from her Polish roots. Until then, remember: it rains on the just and unjust alike, cupcake. Sally’s choices played a deep emotional undercurrent in the original source material, and I’ll be interested to see if they are referenced in the new series. At the end of the graphic novel, Sally is settled into a retirement home and finally makes peace with her daughter, Laurie. Alas, Laurel runs away with her boyfriend to colorful 1960s San Francisco.With the arrival of HBO’s continuation of Alan Moore’s and Dave Gibbons’ groundbreaking comic Watchmen, it felt like the perfect time for a look back at one of my favorite characters: Sally Jupiter, aka the first Silk Spectre. Jupiter is a domineering mother determined to protect her daughter from reliving her own past bad experiences with men. "Silk Spectre" is written by Cooke and penciled by Conner ( Power Girl) and tells the backstory of the second Silk Spectre, Laurel Jane, daughter to Sally Jupiter, the original Silk Spectre and Minutemen member. Nite Owl's memoir occurs during the 1940s, with World War II being an important backstory, along with the pivotal event of Minutemen Silhouette's murder. A separate narrative deals with the memoir's unpopularity among the other Minutemen, who clearly have something to hide. "Minutemen," written and penciled by Eisner Award winner Cooke ( DC: The New Frontier) concludes with the Comedian ominously telling the original Nite Owl, "There is no truth, there are only truths," which summarizes the tell-all memoir by Nite Owl on the Minutemen and is at the core of the story. This collection includes two prequels to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's classic Watchmen. ![]()
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