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As we are all waiting in anticipation for the Watchmen Movie,  I thought I’d add this image that came out last year of the Minutemen, the first superhero group organized in 1939. From left to right we have Silhouette, Mothman, Dollar Bill, the original Nite Owl, Captain Metropolis in the back, The Comedian kneeling up front, Silk Spectre and Hooded Justice.

Even notice the Silk Spectre is holding Hooded Justice’s arm. The only thing I don’t see is the crescent moon belt buckle on the Nite Owl, but that might just be the pic itself.

I don’t know… maybe it’s me, but I just can’t take a superhero, who wears shorts, seriously. That is, unless it’s Robin, he’s cool. But.. the original Nite Owl falls into the “hetero but accidentally gayer than gay,” kind of like when Riley Freeman, Huey’s little gangsta brother on the Boondocks, ends up being ax’dently gay after worshipping his rappa’ artist Gangstalicious. Poor little Riley ended up wearing a skirt, halter top and carrying a purse. Funnier than hell.

• Nite Owl – Hollis Mason, wrote Behind The Hood. Now runs an auto repair shop.
• Silk Spectre – Sally Juspeczyk (Jupiter) “bloated aging whore, dying in a Californian rest resort.”
• Captain Metropolis – Nelson Gardner,  “Decapitated in a car crash back in ’74.”
• Mothman – Byron Lewis,  in an asylum up in Maine.
• The Silhouette – retired in disgrace, murdered six weeks later by a minor adversary seeking revenge.”
• Dollar Bill – “got shot”
• Hooded Justice – “went missing in ’55.”

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