Ultimate Marvel - Publication History

Publication History

The Ultimate Universe was launched in 2000 with the publication of Ultimate Spider-Man, followed by Ultimate X-Men in 2001 and The Ultimates in 2002, and finally Ultimate Fantastic Four. Prior to the launch, the imprint was under the working title of "Ground Zero". The characters in this line exist outside of the regular Earth-616 Marvel Universe and therefore do not interact with their original version counterparts.

The stories and characters of Ultimate Marvel have been adapted to reflect the differences between the present and past continuities, most of which were created in the 1960s and 1970s. For example, Ultimate Spider-Man gains his superpowers from a genetically-engineered spider rather than a radioactive spider, and his alter ego, Peter Parker, originally a photographer for the Daily Bugle newspaper, now has a part-time job as the paper's webmaster. Another aspect of the Ultimate Marvel universe is that many of the characters are younger than their regular-continuity counterparts.

In December 2005 through early 2007, Marvel published a print ad campaign in titles across their company that showed all Ultimate titles and had the slogan, "Ultimate Marvel: The Gold Standard".

Writers noted for their work in the line include Brian Michael Bendis, Warren Ellis, and Mark Millar. Joe Quesada and former Marvel president Bill Jemas were also involved in the creation of the line.

The entire Ultimate Marvel imprint was relaunched in 2009 after the conclusion of the Ultimatum event, under the Ultimate Comics brand.

In August 2011, Marvel relaunched the Ultimate line again, this time with the Ultimate Comics Universe Reborn tagline after the conclusion of "The Death of Spider-Man" story arc, headed by Jonathan Hickman, Nick Spencer and Brian Michael Bendis. The titles relaunched were Ultimate Comics: X-Men, Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates, and Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man. Additionally, Ultimate Comics: Fallout and Ultimate Comics: Hawkeye were released as mini-series.

Ultimate Marvel series timeline
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
“Ultimate” series “Ultimate Comics” series
Ultimate Spider-Man Spider-Man Spider-Man Sp.-M
All-New Spider-Man
Team-Up Six Requiem Fallout S-Men
Ultimate Fantastic Four Fantastic Four Enemy, Mystery, Doom
Requiem
Ultimate X-Men X-Men X X-Men
War X4 Requiem
The Ultimates The Ultimates v.1 The Ultimates v.2 The Ult. v.3 Ultimatum Ultimate Avengers Ultimates
Galactus Trilogy New Ult. A.vs.NU
Cross-overs Vision Origins
Ultimate Power
Limited series Adventures WH Human WH Thor Hawkeye
D&E Elektra Iron Man
v.1
I.Man v.2 Armor Wars Cpt. America Iron Man
Characters Ultimates · Captain America · Chitauri · Nick Fury · Iron Man · Thor · Wolverine · Mahr Vehl · Tyrone Cash · Herr Kleiser · Magician · Kenny McFarlane · Gregory Stark · Miles Morales/Spider-Man
Films Ultimate Avengers · Ultimate Avengers 2
Television Ultimate Spider-Man
Video games Ultimate Spider-Man
Miscellaneous List of Publications · Tomorrow Men

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