''Ultimate Marvel Team-Up'' is a comic book series, published by Marvel Comics which ran for 16 issues, including a concluding ''Ultimate Spider-Man Super Special''. It is set in one of Marvel's shared universes, the Ultimate Universe and is based on the original universe '' Marvel Team-Up''. The whole series starred

Spider-Man Spider-Man is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, he first appeared in the anthology comic book '' Amazing Fantasy'' #15 (August 1962) in the ...

teaming up with another

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each issue. The series was written by

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, with each arc drawn by a different artist.

Issues, artists and characters

Issue 1

* Starring:

& Wolverine vs. Sabretooth * Penciled and Inked by: Matt Wagner * Trivia: Sabretooth's first appearance in Ultimate Marvel.

Issues #2-3

* Starring: Spider-Man &

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* Penciled by: Phil Hester and inked by Ande Parks * Trivia:

's first appearance in Ultimate Marvel.

Issues #4-5

* Starring: Spider-Man &

Iron Man Iron Man is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was co-created by writer and editor Stan Lee, developed by scripter Larry Lieber, and designed by artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby. The charact ...

vs. Latverian mercenaries * Penciled and Inked by: Mike Allred * Trivia: Iron Man's first appearance in Ultimate Marvel.

Issues #6-8

* Starring: Spider-Man, the Punisher (in issues #6-8) and

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(issues #7-8) * Penciled and Inked by: Bill Sienkiewicz * Trivia: Daredevil & Punisher's first appearance in Ultimate Marvel.

Issue #9

* Starring: Spider-Man &

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vs. the Skrulls * Penciled and Inked by: Jim Mahfood * Trivia: The events in this issue are not in Ultimate Marvel canon

Issue #10

* Starring: Spider-Man & Man-Thing vs

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* Penciled and Inked by: John Totleben, with "art assistance" by Ron Randall * Trivia: The Lizard and Man-Thing's first appearance in Ultimate-Marvel

Issue #11

* Starring: Spider-Man & the X-Men * Penciled and Inked by: Chynna Clugston-Major

Issues #12-13

* Starring: Spider-Man and

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vs. Xandu * Penciled and Inked by: Ted McKeever * Trivia: Doctor Strange's First Appearance in Ultimate Marvel

Issue #14

* Starring: Spider-Man & the

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* Penciled by: Terry Moore and inked by

Walden Wong ''Walden'' (; first published in 1854 as ''Walden; or, Life in the Woods'') is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part ...

* Trivia: Black Widow's First Appearance in Ultimate Marvel

Issues #15-16

* Starring: Spider-Man & Shang-Chi * Penciled by:

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and inked by Jason Martin * Trivia: Shang-Chi's First Appearance in Ultimate Marvel

''Ultimate Spider-Man Special''

* Starring Spider-Man, and many of the other headlined characters above, as well as a small appearance by Blade and

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. * Art by Alex Maleev,

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, Al Milgrom, Frank Cho, Jim Mahfood, Scott Morse, Craig Thompson, Michael Avon Oeming, Jason Pearson, Sean Phillips, Mark Bagley, Rodney Ramos, Bill Sienkiewicz, P. Craig Russell,

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, Leonard Kirk,

Terry Pallort Terry is a unisex given name, derived from French Thierry and Theodoric. It can also be used as a diminutive nickname for the names Teresa or Theresa (feminine) or Terence or Terrier (masculine). People Male * Terry Albritton (1955–200 ...

, Dave Gibbons, Mike Gaydos, James Kochalka, David Mack, Brett Weldele, Ashley Wood, and Art Thibert Blade and Elektra's first appearance in Ultimate Marvel

Collected editions

{{Ultimate Spider-Man Marvel Team-Up, Ultimate Team-up comics