Origin of The Sentry #1 page 6

For April Fools, I present one of the biggest comic book April Fools Joke of All Time!!! This page features the origin of The Sentry in Kirbyesqe style, the Superman of the Marvel Universe. The "Golden Guardian of Good with the Power of a Million Exploding Suns" was introduced way back in 2000 in Wizard magazine as a long lost Marvel hero. Supposedly created in 1961 by artist Artie Rosen and famed Marvelite Stan Lee , the Sentry pre-dated the introduction of the Fantastic Four in 1962. It was later revealed to be a big April Fools hoax (or as it is sometimes called, a lie), perpetrated by Wizard Magazine and Stan Lee (this is another fine mess you've gotten us into, Stan Lee) to promote the character. Wizard Magazine even went so far as to publish the death of non-existent artist Artie Rosen. The character had been killed, resurrected, psychoanalyzed, and retconned so much, it makes Bobby Ewing's return by shower in Dallas a Shakespearean plot by comparison. And now, coming soon to a Marvel Movie near you in "The Thunderbolts!!!" And to prove that comedy comes in threes (tap, tap, tap), here are two more jokes:

1) This page was created in 2000 (I'm assuming), and you'll notice it has no lettering. Pretty much all the comic art I purchased from 1999 and before has either hand drawn lettering or paste up word balloons. Since 2000, not so much, so while Y2K was suppose to ring in the new year with the Death of Computers, it was really the Rise of Computerized Lettering.

2) This page is also another example of some comic art I purchased in the early 2000s or so and immediately flipped for a quick profit, only to figure out my $100 page of art may be worth thousands and thousand and thousand of dollars now. Back in the day, I had 15 or 20 pages from the first Sentry Jae Lee run. The only one I kept was this one since it was still an origin page, so right now with the appearance of The Sentry in the next marvel movie, I just think about all those other pages and laugh and laugh and laugh...JOKES ON ME!!!