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Sep 24, 2026
Scotty JHOST
So I kind of fell off on Spider-Man around like the mid 90s.
Scotty JHOST
But then by the time the Sam Raimi movie in 2002 was coming out, Marvel had launched another line of comics called the Ultimate Marvel.
Scotty JHOST
And Ultimate Spider-Man was an excellent run of comics written by Brian Michael Bendis, drawn by Mark Bagley.
Scotty JHOST
I definitely recommend it to anyone listening if you want to, like, get into Spider-Man.
Ryan HigginsHOST
$9.99, same size, including all the Ultimate stuff.
Ryan HigginsHOST
So there's going to be more coming after that, but the first batch of Ultimate Comics, Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men, Ultimate Black Panther will be available in that format.
Ryan HigginsHOST
They're starting to list on upcoming titles, cover A, cover B, cover C, in the title of the book to signify the A cover and what's variant.
Ryan HigginsHOST
This is a pretty standard practice across pretty much the entire industry, except for Marvel.
JennHOST
Yeah.
Young PhilHOST
Ladies and gentlemen, the maker, also known as Ultimate Reed Richards, is Ultimate Marvel's Earth 1610, their version of Mr.
Young PhilHOST
Fantastic in Marvel Comics.
Young PhilHOST
He starts out as a younger and modernized version of Reed, who later turns into a supervillain maker, into the supervillain maker.
Marco AnimotoHOST
yep
SeanHOST
they've been here before and they'll likely be there again you know there are ebbs and flows that's just how it is um But one of the big things to come out of the partnership between Joe Quesada and Bill Jemis is the Ultimate Universe.
SeanHOST
Bill is largely credited with having the idea to have their cake and eat it too, for Marvel to be able to continue with their mainline stuff, but also freshen things up for the modern audience.
SeanHOST
Which, when I say modern audience, I'm really talking about young people.
Marco AnimotoHOST
Yeah, yeah, 5%.
SeanHOST
Yeah.
SeanHOST
This is the year that the Ultimate Universe kicks off.
SeanHOST
And Ultimate X-Men actually is the book that tops the charts for December of 2000 at 117,000 copies sold, which is still not a great number.
JordanHOST
Um...
JordanHOST
Norman Osborn, in this alternate universe, what we call the Ultimate Universe, is trying to...
JordanHOST
He knows that this spider, be it Peter Parker...
JordanHOST
By the way, it's a genetically engineered spider in this version.
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KumarHOST
Where Spider-Man encounters Mysterio, who has built a kind of dimensional portal.
JordanHOST
Okay.
KumarHOST
And that portal sucks 616 Spider-Man into the Ultimate Universe.
KumarHOST
Okay.
NorbertHOST
Yeah.
JamieHOST
So now in the Ultimate Universe, he just looks like Samuel L. Jackson, basically.
JamieHOST
And they later retconned this to reveal that that Nick Fury was the original Nick Fury's secret son.
JamieHOST
So they're kind of linked and it's like I'm the modern version of him whatever and then Samuel Jackson is playing him in the movies now and everyone's happy.
Cody ZiglarGUEST
I was a big comic book fan.
Cody ZiglarGUEST
I was mostly, um, the original Ultimate Marvel line.
Patrick CotnoirHOST
Sure.
Cody ZiglarGUEST
And I got in through that.
SeánPANELIST
No, that's very much from after reading all to inspire and then re-watching Amazing one it just gives off that by no it no it is it's straight up the whole obsession with Peter's parents and like legacy and and the kind of tone is very much more Ultimate, which makes sense.
SeánPANELIST
Like, the MCU is borrowed a lot from Ultimate Marvel.
SeánPANELIST
I don't really see an issue with them adapting Ultimate Spider-Man a bit more.
SeánPANELIST
Now, that's something Tom Holland should have benefited more from Ultimate Spider-Man, which he technically did, but it was more that they just stole all the stuff from Miles.