Ultimate War #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThe opening salvo of this 2003 Marvel miniseries pits the Ultimates against the Ultimate X-Men, and the cover wastes no time setting the tone — a grim-faced Captain America, shield raised and battle-worn, strides alongside a feral, long-haired Wolverine, claws extended, both pushing through a storm of debris and snow. Chris Bachalo's cover art gives both figures a raw, weathered intensity that feels less like superhero spectacle and more like two soldiers bracing for something genuinely ugly. With Mark Millar writing and Bachalo and Tim Townsend handling the interior art, this is one of those crossover openers that makes clear from the very first image that nobody is playing nice.
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- Written by Mark Millar with pencils by Chris Bachalo, inks by Tim Townsend, colors by Paul Mounts, and lettering by Chris Eliopoulos (VC); cover art also by Bachalo.
- First appearance of Hard-Drive (Ultimate Universe), a member of Magneto's reformed Brotherhood of Mutants, confirmed across both the Marvel Database and the Grand Comics Database.
- This issue marks the first time the Ultimates functioned as a full team in a crossover with other Ultimate Universe titles — a landmark structural moment for Marvel's imprint.
- The story picks up directly after The Ultimates #13 and Ultimate X-Men #25; Magneto's return is predicated on Beast accidentally leaking Professor X's secret rehabilitation of Magneto to the Brotherhood via an online deception.
- Although Wolverine appears prominently on the cover, he does not appear in the interior story of issue #1.
- The issue includes a three-page preview of Incredible Hulk (Vol. 2) #50 as a bonus insert.
- The complete four-issue series was collected in trade paperback as part of the Ultimate X-Men TPB line and later reprinted in a 2011 hardcover edition; the story was also incorporated into the Ultimate X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2022).
- A Dynamic Forces variant of issue #1 was signed by Mark Millar and limited to 699 numbered copies with a Certificate of Authenticity.
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Reprinted in Marvel Must Haves #5 (2003), Ultimate X-Men #5 (2003), Marvel Millennium #23 (2003), Ultimate X-Men Ultimate Collection #3 (2009), The Ultimates: La Serie Original #4 (2011), Ultimate War #[nn] (2011), Ultimate X-Men Omnibus #1 (2022), Ultimate X-Men #3
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