We then shift to a huge gathering of heroes that seems made up of a mix and combination of “616” characters and “Ultimate” characters. We open on (a) Spider-Man tangling with a Serpent Squad, putting him into interaction with Cloak, Dagger, and a Spider-Woman. However, never having acquired an original USM #1, I stuck to my guns on getting just the standard/main non-variant cover for this. I had noticed an alternate cover with the Miles Morales Spider-Man costume, that looked like the original Ultimate Spider-Man #1 cover that I almost chose over the standard cover. The Ultimate End logo looks familiar, though I think the font is slightly “off” from some of the other Ultimate _ logos and of course we have the Battleworld banner across the top and the Secret Wars stamp marking this as part of the overall Secret Wars 2015 event, specifically the Battleworld class of tie-ins. This triggers plenty of nostalgia for me from the cover, which utilizes the original trade dress of the Ultimate books–the two solid-color bars down either side of the cover with a skinnier image between. And like I started with Ultimate Spider-Man with the single issues, so, too, I found it fitting to follow the single-issues here as well. As such, seeing as how–after several false-starts on the “end” of the Ultimate universe–the ending is finally here, I couldn’t pass this up. Assistant Editors: Chris Robinson, Emily Shawĭespite missing the first two issues (to this day 14-some years later I’ve had to rely on reprints for my personal collection) I had jumped into the Ultimate universe basically at its start, with Ultimate Spider-Man #3, and I believe I finally got to read the first two issues initially in a Mighty Marvel Must-Have edition.

Ultimate End #1 by Brian Michael Bendis