{"id":12065,"date":"2006-06-20T04:04:44","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T08:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=12065"},"modified":"2013-04-28T17:48:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T21:48:54","slug":"marvel-legends-sentry-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/marvel-legends-sentry-addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Legends Sentry addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"

In today's Sentry<\/a> review, you learned about how the legend of the character's creation was slightly... false. But that's not the whole story.<\/p>\n

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The official version is that Paul Jenkins created the Sentry, then convinced Marvel to pretend it had been created by Stan Lee<\/a> and Artie Rosen (a name made up to reference real-life Atlas\/Timely\/Marvel letterers Artie Simek and Sam Rosen). But the truth is that Jenkins had been working on the pitch with Rick Veitch (Brat Pack<\/a>, The Maximortal<\/a><\/i>), using an idea he'd been mulling over since the '80s: an over-the-hill guy, struggling with addiction problems that were a manifestation of his own subconscious mind. Jenkins had tried pitching it to the horror anthology Taboo<\/a><\/i>, for instance, but had no luck. However, in the late '90s Marvel was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, and thus willing to try more experimental comics. Jenkins and Veitch sat down to work on their story, coming up with a character called the \"Centurion\" (eventually pared down to just \"Sentry\"). It was Veitch who suggested the \"he was active all along, and everybody just forgot him\" thing that's Sentry's main gimmick even today, and even drew up some versions of the character as he would have appeared in various eras:<\/p>\n