Professor Arsenio W Cockshaft was one of several pseudonyms used by Jason Kane to positively review his pornographic novels in order to get himself critical acclaim.
When Jason and his five alter-egos were invited to a conference regarding his work, he commissioned two android duplicates of himself from ProxyMation Corporation to take on the roles of Cockshaft and Jonas Neak. The androids immediately turned on Jason and secretly contacted his rival publishing company Palp Fiction to offer their services in taking down Jason. With the assistance of Palp Fiction, a third duplicate of Jason was commissioned going by yet another of his aliases, Ken J Aason, and the trio helped publicly expose Jason's deception causing his publishers Velvet Mandible's sales to suffer. In exchange Palp Fiction stopped the inevitable decommissioning of the duplicates and raised the finances to place them into permanent organic bodies. (PROSE: Sex Secrets of the Robot Replicants)
However, when the androids reached the clinic in the Catan Nebula that would perform the operation, they discovered that they only had enough funds for one of them to receive a permanent body. One of the original two androids died while attempting to access memories that Jason had not granted to them while the other duplicate would receive a permanent body and become known as 2Jason. The third duplicate also received a permanent body and became 3Jason although his mind has been deliberately frozen at the mental age of eleven. (PROSE: The Two Jasons)
Behind the scenes[]
While the other four pseudonyms were anagrams of Jason Kane's name - Jonas Neak, Jan Keason, Anne Sojak, Ken J Aason - Arsenio's was not and Bernice Summerfield suggested Jason was feeling "unusually creative" when he came up with the name.