Ultimate Marvel Team-Up

Ultimate Marvel Team-Up
250x450px Cover of Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #1 TPB.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Ongoing
Publication date	April 2001-July 2002
Number of issues	16 Ultimate Spider-Man Super Special
Main character(s)	Ultimate Spider-Man
Creative team
Creator(s)	Brian Michael Bendis

Ultimate Marvel Team-Up is a comic book series, published by Marvel Comics 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. 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 only)
• 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

Collections

Collection Title	Format	Contents	ISBN
Ultimate Marvel Team-Up Vol. 1	Trade Paperback	#1-5	ISBN 0-7851-0807-6
The Best of Spider-Man Vol. 1	Hardcover	#6-8, Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 2) #30-36, Peter Parker: Spider-Man #36, Spider-Man's Tangled Web #4-6	ISBN 0-7851-0900-5
Ultimate Marvel Team-Up Vol. 2	Trade Paperback	#9-13	ISBN 0-7851-1299-5
Ultimate Marvel Team-Up Vol. 3	Trade Paperback	#14-16 & Ultimate Spider-man Special	ISBN 0-7851-1300-2
Ultimate Marvel Team-Up Ultimate Collection	Trade Paperback	#1-16 & Ultimate Spider-man Special	ISBN 0-7851-2361-X
Ultimate Marvel Team-Up	Hardcover	#1-16 & Ultimate Spider-man Special	ISBN 0-7851-0870-X