Ultimate Marvel Team-Up Explained

Schedule:	Monthly
Format:	Ongoing
Publisher:	Marvel Comics
Date:	April 2001-July 2002
Issues:	16 Ultimate Spider-Man Super Special
Main Char Team:	Ultimate Spider-Man
Creators:	Brian Michael Bendis

Ultimate Marvel Team-Up is a comic book series, published by Marvel Comics^[1] which ran for 16 issues, including a concluding Ultimate Spider-Man Super Special. It is set in one of Marvel's shared universes, the Ultimate Universe and is based on the original universe Marvel Team-Up. The whole series starred Spider-Man teaming up with another superhero each issue. The series was written by Brian Michael Bendis, with each arc drawn by a different artist.

Issues, artists and characters

Issue 1

• Starring: Spider-Man & Wolverine vs. Sabretooth
• Penciled and Inked by: Matt Wagner
• Trivia: Sabretooth's first appearance in Ultimate Marvel.

Issues #2-3

• Starring: Spider-Man & Hulk
• Penciled by: Phil Hester and inked by Ande Parks
• Trivia: Hulk's first appearance in Ultimate Marvel.

Issues #4-5

• Starring: Spider-Man & Iron Man vs. Latverian mercenaries
• Penciled and Inked by: Mike Allred
• Trivia: Iron Man's first appearance in Ultimate Marvel.

Issues #6-8

• Starring: Spider-Man, the Punisher (in issues #6-8) and Daredevil (issues #7-8)
• Penciled and Inked by: Bill Sienkiewicz
• Trivia: Daredevil & Punisher's first appearance in Ultimate Marvel.

Issue #9

• Starring: Spider-Man & Fantastic Four vs. the Skrulls
• Penciled and Inked by: Jim Mahfood
• Trivia: The events in this issue are not in Ultimate Marvel canon

Issue #10

• Starring: Spider-Man & Man-Thing vs Lizard
• Penciled and Inked by: John Totleben, with "art assistance" by Ron Randall
• Trivia: The Lizard and Man-Thing's first appearance in Ultimate-Marvel

Issue #11

• Starring: Spider-Man & the X-Men
• Penciled and Inked by: Chynna Clugston-Major

Issues #12-13

• Starring: Spider-Man and Doctor Strange vs. Xandu
• Penciled and Inked by: Ted McKeever
• Trivia: Doctor Strange's First Appearance in Ultimate Marvel

Issue #14

• Starring: Spider-Man & the Black Widow
• Penciled by: Terry Moore and inked by Walden Wong
• Trivia: Black Widow's First Appearance in Ultimate Marvel

Issues #15-16

• Starring: Spider-Man & Shang-Chi
• Penciled by: Rick Mays and inked by Jason Martin
• Trivia: Shang-Chi's First Appearance in Ultimate Marvel

Ultimate Spider-Man Special

• Starring Spider-Man, and many of the other headlined characters above, as well as a small appearance by Blade and Elektra.
• Art by Alex Maleev, Dan Brereton, John Romita, Sr., Al Milgrom, Frank Cho, Jim Mahfood, Scott Morse, Craig Thompson, Michael Avon Oeming, Jason Pearson, Sean Phillips, Mark Bagley, Rodney Ramos, Bill Sienkiewicz, P. Craig Russell, Jacen Burrows, Walden Wong, Leonard Kirk, Terry Pallort, Dave Gibbons, Mike Gaydos, James Kochalka, David Mack, Brett Weldele, Ashley Wood, and Art Thibert

Blade and Elektra's first appearance in Ultimate Marvel

Collected editions

Title	Material collected	Published date	ISBN
Ultimate Marvel Team-Up Vol. 1	Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #1-5	November 2001
The Best of Spider-Man Vol. 1	Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #6-8, Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 2) #30-36, Peter Parker: Spider-Man #36, Spider-Man's Tangled Web #4-6	April 2002
Ultimate Marvel Team-Up Vol. 2	Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #9-13	July 2003
Ultimate Marvel Team-Up Vol. 3	Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #14-16, Ultimate Spider-Man Special #1	August 2003
Ultimate Marvel Team-Up: Ultimate Collection	Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #1-16, Ultimate Spider-Man Special #1	September 2006

Notes and References

1. Web site: Marvel.com The Official Site for Marvel Movies, Characters, Comics, TV . 2024-02-11 . www.marvel.com.