Sentinels of Justice
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Sentinels of Justice is a fictional organization of superheroes. The comic was published by Americomics (AKA AC Comics) in 1983 during a very brief time that AC was able to license the Charlton Comics superheroes before the rights were purchased outright by DC Comics. The team consisted of Captain Atom, Blue Beetle, the Question and Nightshade.
AC Comics received news that they were to lose control of the Charlton characters at the time that Sentinals book was being prepared for publication. Writer Bill Black quickly devised a replacement team made up of existing Americomics characters Captain Paragon, Nightveil, Stardust, Commando D, and Scarlet Scorpion. A house ad for the revamped Sentinals team appeared on the back cover of the only published adventure of the team of Charlton characters.
Some of the AC characters in the revamped team resembled the Charlton characters they replaced (Captain Paragon for Captain Atom; Nightveil for Nightshade; Scarlet Scorpion for Blue Beetle), and so the revamp of the team forshadowed Alan Moore's later creation of the Watchmen characters when he was denied the use of the Charlton characters during his tenure at DC Comics. The Charlton characters would finally be teamed together when DC published the L.A.W limited series in 1999.
