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Ultimate Spider-Man

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 – running time 27:07
Ten years ago Marvel Comics took a risk and had an unproven writer reboot their most popular character. Did it work? You bet it did, True Believer!

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Ten years ago, with Marvel Comics emerging from bankruptcy and hungry for good ideas to inject life into their biggest characters, they came up with a risky plan. Create a separate universe of books and reboot their biggest characters back to the beginning.

The best and most controversial of the Ultimate books was and has been Ultimate Spider-Man.

Written by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn (for most of its run) by Mark Bagley, Ultimate Spider-Man defied the odds, broke the most sacred record in comics, and gave us all 10 plus years of fantastic Spider-Man stories.

And there ís no end in sight.

Review: Ultimate Spider-Man: A History

How did Ultimate Spider-Man come to be? The iFanboys examine the history of the book, the people who worked on it, and the controversy surrounding it.

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Ultimate Spider-Man: Favorite Stories

A lot has happened over ten years. The thirteenth issue. Kitty Pryde. Nick Fuy. The ultimatization of classic characters. The clone saga. When youíre one of the best books in all of comics for a decade there is a lot to talk about.

09:11

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Ultimate Spider-Man: Now

After Ultimatum, Ultimate Spider-Man itself was restarted as Ultimate Comics Spider-Man with a new polarizing artist. Itís like 2000 all over again. How does the book fare now, after ten years and with a rejuvenated Amazing Spider-Man to contend with?

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