She did but considered herself sidetracked by her mother’s wishes. After having a daughter named Laurie, she desperately wanted her brand of Silk Spectre to continue as Laurie grew up, Jupiter pressed her to take up the mantle. With age comes wisdom, but also lost dreams. The government also began to tighten their grip on squeezing out the Minutemen’s true identities, so retirement and impending motherhood once again kept Jupiter out of reach. Jupiter continued to shift her focus to acting but then became pregnant. She was also a well-planted distraction to keep the press from wondering about Hooded Justice’s true sexuality (and relationship with Captain Metropolis).Īnd just as everyone had personal convictions for joining the Minutemen, they also had their reasons for leaving. Hollis Mason (aka Nite Owl) alleged in Under the Hood that the Comedian tried to rape Jupiter after a meeting-allegations she refused to comment on publicly and would later hide from her daughter. 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. 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.
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