Ultimate Spider-Man #24
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeUltimate Spider-Man #24 closes Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto's 24-issue run — the flagship title of Marvel's second Ultimate Universe (Earth-6160) — bringing to an end an experiment in which each issue was told in real-time, month-to-month, a formal device without precedent in modern mainstream superhero serialization. The issue delivers decisive resolutions for Wilson Fisk and Martin Li, completing a two-year rivalry between Kingpin and Mister Negative that serves as the spine of the entire run, and caps a series widely credited with re-energizing the concept of a married, family-man Peter Parker that Marvel's main-line continuity had dismantled in 'One More Day.' As the concluding chapter of an intentionally finite universe — one that Hickman publicly confirmed he delivered exactly as pitched — it stands as a rare example in Big Two publishing of a superhero line with a true beginning, middle, and end.
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Jonathan Hickman conceived the series as the debut title of the new Ultimate Universe (Earth-6160), which launched after the 2023 Ultimate Invasion miniseries; at San Diego Comic-Con 2025, the conclusion at issue #24 was announced, with Hickman stating the 24-issue shape was always part of his original pitch and that nothing deviated from it. The real-time pacing — each issue set in roughly the same month it shipped — was flagged by Hickman himself as one of the 'radical' formal interventions he wanted to explore in the Ultimate imprint. The final issue shipped February 18, 2026, slightly later than the December 2025 target announced at New York Comic Con 2025, and ran 40 pages with art shared between regular series collaborators Marco Checchetto and David Messina, the two artists who had traded pages throughout the run.
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- Published February 18, 2026 by Marvel Comics; written by Jonathan Hickman, pencilled and inked by Marco Checchetto and David Messina, colored by Matthew Wilson, lettered by Cory Petit, edited by Will Moss.
- Final issue of Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 3 (2024–2026), closing Hickman and Checchetto's complete 24-issue run on the series.
- In-story deaths of Wilson Fisk (Kingpin) and Martin Li (Mister Negative): Mr. Negative attempts to compel Kingpin to take his own life, but Fisk's willpower is strong enough to drag Negative over the edge with him — both die.
- Richard Parker (Peter's son), bonded with the PicoTech symbiote suit that gives him a Venom-like form, fights alongside Black Cat (Felicia Hardy) against Kingpin's Anti-Venom-style enforcers.
- Harry Osborn (Green Goblin) and Gwen Stacy (one of the Mysterio collective, appearing in illusion or holographic form) receive character-closing beats: Harry deletes the abusive AI version of his father Norman Osborn; Gwen's consciousness remains absorbed into the Mysterio hive.
- Captain Britain (Henri Dugarry) appears in cameo, approached by the Green Goblin and Mysterio about assuming the Kingpin's mantle over New York.
- Ben Parker and J. Jonah Jameson serve a journalistic role exposing the Kingpin's crimes throughout the issue, consistent with their function as co-founders of 'The Paper' across the run.
- The series employed a real-time month-to-month storytelling structure — a formal device Hickman cited as central to his Ultimate Universe pitch — making this issue nominally set in 2026, though it shipped slightly after the concurrent crossover series Ultimate Endgame had already begun.
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