This month… well, it’s a weird one, and our artist is John Totleben. He first got famous inking Stephen Bissette on the run of Swamp Thing that was also Alan Moore’s first…
Tag: Ultimate Marvel Team-Up
UTMU 08
This month we get to the first of many comics from this period we’ll see with a 9/11 memorial box on the cover. For a company and really an industry almost exclusively…
UTMU 09
Of all the artists featured in this book so far, Jim Mahfood is by far the most radical choice. A fixture of the indie world at the time, doing comics a lot…
UMTU 07
Cool cover. Let’s learn about Ultimate Daredevil. We’re really reducing Ultimate DD to a pre-1990s-style blurb for a backstory? This issue begins with a cop starting a fight in a bar because…
UMTU 06
Something noteworthy is going on with this cover. Or rather, not going on. There’s no Comics Code Authority approval stamp. This is because the radical new management decided they didn’t need it…
UTMU 05
Spidey and IM didn’t actually manage to team up last issue, so let’s see how it goes this time. First, we flash back 10 years to when Tony went to Guatemala based…
UMTU 04
This month, Team-Up welcomes Iron Man and Mike Allred to the Ultimate party. “JC” hangs in there on colors. I really wonder why he didn’t go by his name. Because this series…
UTMU 03
If there’s one surefire selling method for comics, it’s “big foot on cover.” The covers to both these issues got some gentle and sometimes not-so-gentle ribbing online. Well, Hulk’s about to crush…
UMTU 02
Before Peter can investigate the Kingpin, he’s got someone else to meet. I mean, maybe. I’m not sure what the intended reading order was. UMTU 3 came out the same month as…
UMTU 01
The unexpected success of USM meant Marvel was keen to expand the Ultimate line. USM was followed almost immediately by Ultimate X-Men (Bendis was originally to write both titles, even), but as…