Ultimates #18
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThe Ultimates #18 marks the first in-story appearance of the Earth-6160 Avengers as a named, assembled team — a significant milestone in Deniz Camp's methodical construction of the new Ultimate Universe's heroic ecosystem. The issue also delivers the death of Midas at America Chavez's hands, closing a major antagonist thread and signaling that the series has entered its final, irreversible phase. As the penultimate arc-builder before the Maker's return from imprisonment in the City, the issue functions as the Ultimate Universe's equivalent of a rallying cry: Tony Stark's planet-wide broadcast transforms the Ultimates from a guerrilla cell into a genuine global resistance movement, a storytelling beat that crystallizes the series' core thesis about power, complicity, and collective action.
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The Ultimates Vol. 3 launched in 2024, written by Deniz Camp with art by Juan Frigeri, spinning directly out of Jonathan Hickman and Stefano Caselli's Ultimate Universe #1 and the broader Earth-6160 line overseen by Hickman. Camp has cited JLA and Warren Ellis's Global Frequency as creative touchstones for the series. Issue #18 continues the book's regular creative team of Camp, Frigeri, and letterer Travis Lanham under editor Wil Moss, with cover art by Dike Ruan and Neeraj Menon and variant covers by Adam Pollina, Andrea Sorrentino, and InHyuk Lee.
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- First appearance of the Avengers (Earth-6160) as a named, assembled team — Luke Cage is specifically noted as joining them in this issue.
- Death of Midas (Mordecai Midas): America Chavez tracks down the bedridden, paralyzed Midas — sustained only by Howard Stark's old armor — and disintegrates him with her powers, ending his run as a Council-aligned antagonist.
- Tony Stark (Iron Lad) delivers a planet-wide broadcast cutting across all media — radio, tablets, and more — publicly exposing the Maker's Council and urging civilian resistance, a turning point for the Ultimates from covert team to open revolutionary movement.
- Shen Qi (Iron Fist) and Danny Rand appear on a parallel mission, climbing a mountain in search of a 'door to Heaven,' advancing the book's K'un-Lun subplot.
- Characters from the sister title Ultimate X-Men make cameo appearances: Maystorm (Mei Igarashi), Kanon Sainouchi (Psylocke), and Nico Minoru (Grimm) — reflecting the cross-title convergence building toward the Ultimate Universe's conclusion.
- Captain Britain (Henri Dugarry) and Black King (Emmanuel Da Costa) appear as active Maker's Council antagonists.
- The issue is part of Ultimates Vol. 3 by writer Deniz Camp and artist Juan Frigeri, with lettering by Travis Lanham — the book's regular creative team throughout the run.
- Issue #18 was collected in the Ultimates by Deniz Camp Vol. 3 trade paperback alongside issues #13–18, per Comic Book Herald's reading order.
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Reprinted in Ultimates by Deniz Camp #3 (2026)
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