Marvel Reveals the End of Ultimate Spider-Man as Ultimate Endgame Looms | SDCC 2025

Marvel Comics held a sheet focused connected the wildly fashionable Ultimate Universe imprint astatine SDCC 2025. There they revealed that Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto's Ultimate Spider-Man volition beryllium ending with December's contented #24, arsenic the full Ultimate Universe braces for the imminent instrumentality of The Maker.

Marvel and Hickman alike are adamant that the bid isn't being canceled, but simply reaching its natural, preplanned conclusion.

“This was everything that I pitched,” Hickman said astatine the panel. “Nothing has deviated. It’s been truly bully to execute the program good and everything culminates into this issue. Fans of the Ultimate Universe are going to emotion it. It’s been a existent pleasance being the writer of Ultimate Spider-Man.”

Art by Marco Checchetto. (Image Credit: Marvel)

Even arsenic Ultimate Spider-Man ends, Marvel volition beryllium launching a caller crossover bid called Ultimate Endgame. As the rubric suggests, Ultimate Endgame pays disconnected connected a long-running crippled constituent from the extremity of 2023's Ultimate Invasion. Ever since that bid concluded, the evil Reed Richards known arsenic The Maker has been locked distant successful different dimension. The full Ultimate enactment has been unfolding successful existent time, dilatory counting down the 24 months until his return. Ultimate Endgame explores what happens erstwhile helium does return.

Ultimate Endgame won't beryllium written by Hickman, but alternatively The Ultimates writer Deniz Camp. Camp volition beryllium joined by creator Jonas Scharf and different artists for a bid that unites the casts of each the existent Ultimate books.

“This is the craziest and astir impactful crossover [I've worked on],” Camp said. “I’m truly excited astir it. It’s each the characters: everyone coming unneurotic successful this large way, coming up against each different successful a large way, and the solution of immoderate agelong crippled threads we’ve each been seeing. It’s precise big, precise dramatic, and with the Ultimate Universe, we tin alteration the world. We tin really bash it arsenic creators due to the fact that we person this unthinkable playground that Marvel has not conscionable allowed, but encouraged us, to use. It’s specified an grant to bash thing similar this. It’s been amazing, and this is the culmination of a batch of what we’ve been doing together.”

Art by Derrick Chew. (Image Credit: Marvel)

Given that Ultimate Spider-Man is consistently 1 of Marvel's top-selling titles, we uncertainty the bid volition enactment dormant. More likely, Marvel volition relaunch USM with a caller originative squad successful 2026 aft Ultimate Endgame wraps. Let america cognize successful the comments beneath which creators you deliberation are up to the task of pursuing Hickman and Checchetto.

Ultimate Spider-Man #24 volition beryllium released connected December 24, followed by Ultimate Endgame #1 a week aboriginal connected December 31.

For much connected the Ultimate Universe, find retired wherefore it's the champion happening Marvel is publishing and spot wherefore The Ultimates was our prime for the champion comic publication bid of 2024.

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