Ultimate Spider-Man #10
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIssue #10 is a structurally bold chapter in Jonathan Hickman's reinvention of the Spider-Man mythology: it delivers a full-length, action-free investigative journalism story built almost entirely around the living Uncle Ben Parker and J. Jonah Jameson, pushing the series' most radical premise — that Ben survived — to its dramatic center. By tracing a web of shell companies from Wilson Fisk's sale of Stane/Stark Industries all the way to Oscorp, the issue forges the first direct narrative collision between the Ben-and-Jonah reporter subplot and the Harry Osborn/Green Goblin storyline, marking the moment the book's seemingly separate threads converge into a single conspiracy. Reviewers noted that Hickman's willingness to sustain multiple Spider-Man-free issues spoke to an unusual degree of editorial confidence in long-form world-building at a major publisher.
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The issue arrived ten months into Hickman and Checchetto's relaunch of the Ultimate Universe, the first ongoing series in Marvel's new Earth-6160 imprint. Regular series artist Marco Checchetto stepped back for this installment, with David Messina taking over full penciling and inking duties; multiple reviewers noted that Messina's work — particularly his use of shadow and light — held up seamlessly beside the established visual tone. The cover, painted by Checchetto, consciously echoes the composition of Amazing Spider-Man #39, the classic Norman Osborn unmasking issue, signaling the Goblin identity reveal tension building within the story.
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- Released October 16, 2024, written by Jonathan Hickman with interior art by David Messina (fill-in) and colors by Matthew Wilson; cover by regular series artist Marco Checchetto.
- The main story follows Ben Parker and J. Jonah Jameson — operating their independent investigative outlet 'The Paper' — as they confront Wilson Fisk's lieutenant James Wesley about the sale of Stane/Stark Industries, then trace a chain of shell companies back to Oscorp.
- Harry Osborn personally confronts Ben and Jonah late in the issue, marking the first direct face-to-face clash between the journalists and the man who is secretly the Green Goblin of Earth-6160.
- Ben and Jonah do not yet know that Harry Osborn is the Green Goblin; this issue explicitly establishes that gap in their knowledge as a source of dramatic tension going forward.
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) does not appear in any meaningful capacity, continuing the series' pattern — noted by multiple critics — of sustained Spider-Man-free issues built around supporting-cast perspectives.
- In the new Ultimate Universe (Earth-6160), Uncle Ben Parker is alive — never killed by a burglar — and serves as an award-winning investigative journalist rather than a cautionary figure in Peter's origin; this issue is among the most concentrated showcases of that premise.
- Harry Osborn in Earth-6160 is a heroic vigilante Green Goblin married to Gwen Stacy, and serves as co-CEO of Oscorp after his parents were killed in a terrorist attack; both facts are relevant context for the Oscorp connection uncovered in this issue.
- The Checchetto cover is a deliberate visual homage to Amazing Spider-Man #39 (1966), the issue in which the Green Goblin unmasked Spider-Man — a compositional choice that foreshadows the identity-reveal tension at the heart of this arc.
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Reprinted in Ultimate Spider-Man by Jonathan Hickman #2 (2025), Ultimate Spider-Man #2 (2025)
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