The Sentry [New Printing 2] - by Paul Jenkins (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Discover the mind-bending story of the Sentry - a forgotten hero with unimaginable power and a dark secret. Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee deliver a haunting classic that introduced Bob Reynolds and The Void to the Marvel Universe.

Lewis Pullman brings the enegmatic Sentry to life in Marvel Studios Thunderbolts*, in theaters May 2, 2025.

You're the world's greatest hero. So why doesn't anyone remember you? Your name is Bob Reynolds. You prefer cartoons over CNN. You drink too much, and you're thirty pounds overweight. You're afraid of heights and hate crowds, and your wife blames you for your dog's moodiness. And you know you were once a super hero. You were the Sentry. But then something terrible happened. Something that threatened all life on Earth, something that caused your best friend -- Mister Fantastic, the leader of the Fantastic Four -- to betray you. Now it's happening again...and the Sentry must return. But at what cost? Join the acclaimed creative team of INHUMANS for another epic of personal and cosmic proportions -- an odyssey unlike any other in super hero lore.

COLLECTING: The Sentry (2000) 1-5, The Sentry/Fantastic Four (2001), The Sentry/X-Men (2001), The Sentry/Spider-Man (2001), The Sentry/Hulk (2001), The Sentry vs. the Void (2001)

About the Author

An Eisner Award winner for his work on Inhumans, Paul Jenkins helped reveal Wolverine's untold history in Origin and introduced a "forgotten" hero of the Marvel Universe in Sentry. In addition to his comics work on such series as Spectacular Spider-Man, Incredible Hulk and Civil War: Front Line, he is a prolific writer of video games, including Radical Entertainment's Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. Jenkins returned to DC Comics in 2011, writing New 52 titles Batman: The Dark Knight and Stormwatch.

Artist Jae Lee made a name for himself on Marvel's Namor the Sub-Mariner, his gothic style a stark departure from traditional comic art. After a short X-Factor arc, Lee decamped to the newly formed Image Comics -- illustrating the Youngblood Strikefile and WildC.A.T.s Trilogy miniseries, and introducing his own creation in Hellshock. In 1998, he won an Eisner Award for his distinctive work with writer Paul Jenkins on the Marvel Knights series Inhumans. He and Jenkins reteamed in 2000 for Sentry, the multilayered tale of a deliberately forgotten Silver Age hero. Continuing his Marvel Knights work, Lee illustrated Grant Morrison's Fantastic Four: 1234, an arc of Captain America and the Hulk/Thing: Hard Knocks limited series. After drawing an arc of Ultimate Fantastic Four, Lee was tapped to lend his distinctive style to Marvel's adaptations of Stephen King's Dark Tower novels.

Mark Texeira worked on Marvel's New Universe titles, including Psi-Force and Kickers, Inc., and other books -- but his reputation caught fire in the early 1990s as a revamped Ghost Rider returned the character to fan-favorite status. Texeira helped introduce Black Panther to Marvel Knights in an acclaimed run, and his art has long been a regular sight for Marvel readers -- particularly on gritty characters like Wolverine, Moon Knight, Punisher and a return to Ghost Rider.

Three different incarnations of Cloak and Dagger were only a few of Rick Leonardi's artistic achievements for Marvel. His other credits include Uncanny X-Men, New Mutants and Spider-Man 2099. At DC, he drew Batman family titles Batgirl and Nightwing, as well as comic/film crossover Green Lantern vs. Aliens. At Event Comics, he penciled Painkiller Jane.