sentry

Sentry
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Fantastic Four vol. 1, #64 (July, 1967)
Characters	Sentry 459 Curtis Elkins Robert Reynolds "Senator Ward" Val
Sentry
	Sentry"" vol. 1, #1 (Sept, 2000). Featuring the Robert Reynolds verion of the character. Art by Jae Lee.
Series publication information
Publisher	(vol 1) Marvel Knights (Marvel Comics imprint) (vol 2) Marvel Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Limited series
Genre	Superhero
Publication date	(vol 1) September, 2000 — January, 2001 (vol 2) November, 2005 — June, 2006
Number of issues	(vol 1) 5 (vol 2) 8
Main character(s)	Robert Reynolds

Sentry is the codename of several unrelated fictional characters of the Marvel Universe. Currently, the most prominent Sentry is Robert Reynolds, appearing in Marvel's New Avengers and Mighty Avengers titles, and the subject of two limited series.

Sentry 459

The first Marvel Comics character to use the name was Sentry 459, a large android placed on Earth by the alien race The Kree, later discovered by the Fantastic Four. Other models of the Sentry robot later appeared in issues of various comics series.

Sentry (Curtis Elkins)

Fictional character history

Curtis Elkins was a Guardsman at the Vault, a prison for super powered criminals. While there Curtis befriended Hugh Taylor, a new guardsman fresh out of the army. Curtis left the Vault sometime after Hugh was murdered by Venom during an escape.

After that, Curtis and a few of his fellow Guardsmen joined The Jury, an agency organized by General Orwell Taylor. Their purpose was to track down and destroy Venom. To that end many of them were armed with sonic and fire generating weapons which the alien symbiote was vulnerable to. After the death of Orwell, the firm was reformed by his older son Maxwell to fit the principles of civil rights and the legal court system. It was in fact a change done in accordance with Curtis' personal ideology of law and order. At a final fight with Hybrid, he was seriously injured, not only by physical damage, but also by mental contact with the symbiotes.

Almost all of his later team members were his colleagues from the Vault, either those involved in the riot, or those involved in the Guardsmen at other times. They include Screech (Maxwell Taylor), Ramshot (Samuel Caulkin), Bomblast (First Name Unknown, Last Name Parmenter), Firearm (Unknown), Wysper (Jennifer Stewart).

His former enemy Scott Washington aka Hybrid was also a guard in the Vault.

Powers and abilities

Although their suits of powered armor were made by altering Guardsmen suits, they are neither identical nor equal, and let the wearer possess different abilities. Sentry's strength is the greatest of them all. He was strong enough to hold down Spider-Man in one of their fights. He has flight technology made differently from the others, with a ramjet propulsion mini engine installed into his boots. His whole costume is a green-brown color while his partners' are "standard" Guardsmen colors. He has a powerful energy gun. There's a lock-pick tool kit inside his right glove.

Sentry (Robert Reynolds)

The Sentry known as Robert Reynolds first appeared in his own Marvel Knights limited series, in which he was marketed as a forgotten creation of Stan Lee, a falsehood that was eventually revealed to be a marketing ploy. Robert Reynolds has been retconned into having existed inside the Marvel Universe since it's creation, but the public forgot about him when it was revealed his subconcious creates a deadly counterpart, the Void. His popularity not diminished, he became a member of the Avengers and has been the subject of a several other limited series.

Sentry (Stewart Ward)

Steward Ward (which is supposedly an assumed name; both names could be considered synonyms for "sentry") appears as a Senator in Peter Parker: Spider-Man Vol. 2 #4, with frequent appearances in the this and the concurrent Amazing Spider-Man title throughout Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2 #24. Mysterious and seemingly up to no good, Ward lurked behind the scenes of the title until he ran afoul of Dr. Octopus and the Sinister Six. Ward reappeared a few issues later, and his backstory and connections to Spider-Man ally Arthur Stacy and the mysterious Ranger were revealed in a storyline running Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2. A former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent operating as Sentry, Ward was as a double agent for Z'Nox aliens, who used Ward to aid in an invasion of Earth. Years later, as Z'Nox aliens found themselves on Earth during a brief period when it was designated an intergalatic prison, Ward was infected by Z'Nox lifeform, mutating him into a half-human/half-alien being. Ranger subsequently sacrificed himself to destroy Ward.

Sentry (Val, the Galadorian)

Interior artwork from Spaceknights #1 (Oct, 2000). Art by Chris Batista and Chip Wallace.

Val, first appeared in Spaceknights #1 (October, 2000) and was created by Jim Starlin and Chris Batista. He is a defender Spaceknight and is a warrant officer of the flagship of the Galadorian army. He was wounded during an assault by the Trionians, who killed the Prime Director, the first man of the Galadorian nation and its fleet sent on a mission to stop ethnic cleansing in their Universe.

Other versions

Ultimate Sentry

In the Ultimate Universe, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s private version of the Hubble Space Telescope is called Sentry. It is used for detailed imaging within the Solar System and was the first to detect Gah Lak Tus when it appeared over the Great Red Spot of Jupiter.

During the second Sentry mini-series, when the Sentry begins to tell his origin, a false comic-book cover appears that reads "Ultimate Sentry", which shows the Robert Reynolds version of the Sentry. This false cover also states that it was created by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn by Mark Bagley, a reference to their Ultimate Spider-Man series.

Marvel Zombies

A humanoid Sentry appears in the "Crossover" story arc of Ultimate Fantastic Four (where the Ultimate Frightful Four were introduced). This Sentry is from an unspecified dimension, and is the source of the infection in Marvel Zombies. He is never called by name, and is only distinguishable by his outfit (though other aspects of his appearance are more reminiscent of Superman including short, spitcurled, black hair, (Sentry has long hair), and missing patch of uniform in the approximate shape and location of Superman's "S" shield (although in Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness #1 it is shown, that the missing patch in the uniform is the result of a shot from Ash William's shotgun, and also zombie-Sentry's hair in this comics is blond).). This has, as of late 2008, been replaced in Marvel Zombies reprints by the yellow and blue suit Sentry has been spotted in his other comics.

After causing the infection, he disappears and is only seen in Magneto's retelling of the story to Ultimate Mister Fantastic, where he went is unknown.

References

• Jury Profile

External links

• Sentry (disambiguation) at the Marvel Universe
• Sentry at the Marvel Database Project