{"id":40422,"date":"2025-07-27T05:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/40422\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T05:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:41:07","slug":"marvel-reveals-the-end-of-ultimate-spider-man-as-ultimate-endgame-looms-sdcc-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/40422\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Reveals the End of Ultimate Spider-Man as Ultimate Endgame Looms | SDCC 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marvel Comics held a panel focused on the wildly popular Ultimate Universe imprint at SDCC 2025. There they revealed that Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto’s Ultimate Spider-Man will be ending with December’s issue #24, as the entire Ultimate Universe braces for the imminent return of The Maker. <\/p>\n

Marvel and Hickman alike are adamant that the series isn’t being canceled, but merely reaching its natural, preplanned conclusion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was everything that I pitched,\u201d Hickman said at the panel. \u201cNothing has deviated. It\u2019s been really nice to execute the plan well and everything culminates into this issue. Fans of the Ultimate Universe are going to love it. It\u2019s been a real pleasure being the writer of Ultimate Spider-Man.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Art by Marco Checchetto. (Image Credit: Marvel)<\/p>\n

Even as Ultimate Spider-Man ends, Marvel will be launching a new crossover series called Ultimate Endgame. As the title suggests, Ultimate Endgame pays off on a long-running plot point from the end of 2023’s Ultimate Invasion. Ever since that series concluded, the evil Reed Richards known as The Maker has been locked away in another dimension. The entire Ultimate line has been unfolding in real time, slowly counting down the 24 months until his return. Ultimate Endgame explores what happens when he does return. <\/p>\n

Ultimate Endgame won’t be written by Hickman, but rather The Ultimates writer Deniz Camp. Camp will be joined by artist Jonas Scharf and other artists for a series that unites the casts of all the current Ultimate books.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the craziest and most impactful crossover [I’ve worked on],\u201d Camp said. \u201cI\u2019m really excited about it. It\u2019s all the characters: everyone coming together in this big way, coming up against each other in a big way, and the resolution of some long plot threads we\u2019ve all been seeing. It\u2019s very big, very dramatic, and with the Ultimate Universe, we can change the world. We can actually do it as creators because we have this incredible playground that Marvel has not just allowed, but encouraged us, to use. It\u2019s such an honor to do something like this. It\u2019s been amazing, and this is the culmination of a lot of what we\u2019ve been doing together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Art by Derrick Chew. (Image Credit: Marvel)<\/p>\n

Given that Ultimate Spider-Man is consistently one of Marvel’s top-selling titles, we doubt the series will stay dormant. More likely, Marvel will relaunch USM with a new creative team in 2026 after Ultimate Endgame wraps. Let us know in the comments below which creators you think are up to the task of following Hickman and Checchetto.<\/p>\n

Ultimate Spider-Man #24 will be released on December 24, followed by Ultimate Endgame #1 a week later on December 31.<\/p>\n

For more on the Ultimate Universe, find out why it’s the best thing Marvel is publishing<\/a> and see why The Ultimates was our pick for the best comic book series of 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on BlueSky<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel Comics held a panel focused on the wildly popular Ultimate Universe imprint at SDCC 2025. There they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-40422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}