Sentry Poster Jae Lee New Avengers Spider-Man Professor X

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The Sentry was a beloved hero, fighting crime before the Fantastic Four took their fateful trip to the stars. He fought all manner of costumed villainy, making the notion of costumed crimefighting accepted by New York’s citizenry. He fought alongside the Fantastic Four, Hulk, and Spider-Man, the ideal they tried to measure up to. But today, no one remembers who he was. Bob Reynolds, teetering on the edge of both alcoholism and a failed marriage, wakes up to discover his true nature. He does so in time to begin rebuilding his life. The evil entity known as the Void is returning to Earth. Reynolds dons his Sentry uniform once more and has to unravel the conspiracy to erase his memory from mankind before the Void arrives. Ready for the final battle, Marvel’s premier hero is backed up by his closest friends, Mr. Fantastic, Wolverine, Thor, Captain America, Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, Professor X and Iron Man. Could they be enough to stop an evil as powerful as the Void? The Sentry (Robert “Bob” Reynolds) is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe. The character first appears in The Sentry #1 (Sep. 2000) and was created by Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee, with uncredited conceptual contributions by Rick Veitch. In the late 1990s, Paul Jenkins and Rick Veitch developed an idea of Jenkins’ about “an over-the-hill guy, struggling with addiction, who had a tight relationship with his dog” into a proposal for Marvel Comics’ Marvel Knights line. Jenkins conceived of the character “a guardian type, with a watchtower”, and came up with the name “Sentry” (after previously considering “Centurion”). Veitch suggested that the character could be woven into the history of the Marvel Universe, with versions of the character from the 1940s on depicted in artistic styles matching the comics of each period. Veitch also suggested that due to some cataclysmic event, all recollection of the Sentry would have been removed from everyone’s memory (including his own). Jenkins and Veitch decided that they would create not only a fictional history for the Sentry within the Marvel Universe, but also a fictional publication history in the “real world”, complete with imaginary creators (“Juan Pinkles” and “Chick Rivet”, anagrams of Paul Jenkins and Rick Veitch). Jenkins pitched the concept to Marvel Knights editor Joe Quesada.

Near mint condition.