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From the Origins of the Ultimate Universe (2001) to the end of Mark Millar & Bryan Hitch run, the battle against the Liberators and Ultimatum

In this Chronology Highlight are scheduled every Ultimates chronological appearance in issues and tales from 2001 to 2009 and all books that contains a tale or a sequence of pages (chronologically) placed in the "2001-2009" year-period.

Moreover, the highlight below not only included Ultimates appearances as team but any correlate issue prominent for their continuity from 2001, like several books where individual Ultimates are together (i.e. team-up, crossover or miniseries) and books with individual Ultimates appearances or non-Ultimates appearances since they are important to a key continuity.

Frequently, the entry not reported the entire issue/story but only to a portion of it, some pages; in this case, always is indicated the exact pages-range of the issue which entry refers for the chronological positioning. Each entry have a "What's on Chronology?" description drawed in cyan that indicates the title of the story and eventually (in bold and in square bracket) the exact sequence/framing-pages fit in the chronology; besides here are listed (in italic and in parentheses) individual Ultimates appearances or Ultimates-related characters appearances in the issue (or page-sequence) fit in the chronology, with the exceptions of the issue's protagonists because their appearance is implied.

Many entries have a continuity tips or clues (a short description of the entry contents) named "Entry topic".

Green text-labels indicates hints with details on chronology-key, or starting point in major crossover and big events in the Ultimate Universe.

For each entry, click on the cover thumbnails to view further book details.

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Chronology Highlight Details

Entry title:
Ultimate Nightmare #1 (Limited Series) - 2004/October-2005/February

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Ultimate Nightmare: Pt.1 [Pages 1-5]

Entry topic: Entering Ultimate VISION (1904)…

Entry title:
Ultimates Annual #2 (One Shot Annual) - 2006/October

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Untitled [Flashback: Pages 8-12 and 14-15]

Entry topic: Entering Ultimate ARMIN ZOLA (during the 2nd World War)

Entry title:
Ultimates #1 (Volume 1) - 2002/March

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Super Human [Flashback: Pages 1-23]

Entry topic: Vol.1 begins here, First appearance of Ultimate CAPTAIN AMERICA (1945)

Entry title:
Ultimate Iron Man #2 (Volume 1) - 2005/June

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Part 2 [Pages 1-6] (Ultimate Iron Man limited series)

Entry topic: The birth of TONY STARK

Entry title:
Ultimate Iron Man #4-5 (Volume 1) - 2005/November-2006/February

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Part 4-5 (Ultimate Iron Man limited series)

Entry topic: TONY STARK gets his first suit of armor

Entry title:
Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #2-3 (Volume 1) - 2001/May-June

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Spider-Man & Hulk: Pt.1-2

Entry topic: First appearance of Ultimate HULK

Entry title:
Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #4-5 (Volume 1) - 2001/July-August

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Spider-Man & Iron Man: Pt.1-2 [Except Page 1-2, 5, 8, 12-13 and 15-18 of #5] (Nick Fury appearance)

Entry topic: First appearance of Ultimate IRON MAN and Ultimate NICK FURY

Entry title:
Ultimates #3 (Volume 3) - 2008/March

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
[March on Ultimatum tie-in] Sex, Lies and DVD: Pt.3 - Siblings [Pages 10-15]

Entry topic: Wolverine met SCARLET WITCH and QUICKSILVER (in the Savage Land)

Entry title:
Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #14 (Volume 1) - 2002/June

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Spider-Man & Black Widow [Pages 4-22] (Nick Fury appearance)

Entry topic: First appearance of Ultimate BLACK WIDOW

Entry title:
Ultimates #2 (Volume 1) - 2002/April

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Big

Entry topic: First appearance of Ultimate GIANT-MAN and Ultimate WASP

Entry title:
Ultimates #3 (Volume 1) - 2002/May

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
21st Century Boy

Entry topic: CAPTAIN AMERICA joins the Ultimates

Entry title:
Ultimate Spider-Man Super Special #1 (One Shot) - 2002/July

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Untitled [Pages 29-39] (Captain America and Ultimates cameo appearance)

Entry title:
Ultimates #4 (Volume 1) - 2002/June

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Thunder

Entry topic: First appearance of Ultimate THOR

Entry title:
Ultimates #5 (Volume 1) - 2002/July

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Hulk Does Manhattan

Entry topic: The Ultimates versus the HULK

Entry title:
Ultimates #6 (Volume 1) - 2002/August

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Giant-Man vs. the Wasp [Pages 1-5]

Entry topic: THOR joins the Ultimates

Entry title:
Ultimate Adventures #3-4 (Limited Series) - 2003/March-May

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
(Ultimates appearance)

Entry topic: The Ultimates meet up with HAWK-OWL and WOODY

Entry title:
Ultimates #6 (Volume 1) - 2002/August

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Giant-Man vs. the Wasp [Pages 6-23]

Entry topic: HENRY PYM and JANET VAN DYNE had a violent fight

Entry title:
Ultimates #7 (Volume 1) - 2002/September

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Homeland Security

Entry title:
Ultimates #8 (Volume 1) - 2002/November

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
The Experts

Entry topic: First appearance of Ultimate HAWKEYE, QUICKSILVER and SCARLET WITCH

Entry title:
Ultimates #9 (Volume 1) - 2003/April

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Captain America vs. Giant-Man [Pages 7-22]

Entry topic: CAPTAIN AMERICA versus HENRY PYM

Entry title:
Ultimates #10 (Volume 1) - 2003/July

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Devil in Disguise [Except Pages 1-6]

Entry topic: The CHITAURI starts the planning of the World invasion

Entry title:
Ultimates #11 (Volume 1) - 2003/September

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
The Art of War

Entry title:
Ultimates #12 (Volume 1) - 2003/November

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Persons of Mass Destruction

Entry topic: The Ultimates versus the CHITAURI

Entry title:
Ultimates #13 (Volume 1) - 2004/April

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
How I Learned To Love the Hulk

Entry topic: Vol.1 ends here, ...the Ultimates save the World

Entry title:
Ultimate War #1-4 (Limited Series) - 2003/January-April

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
The Ultimates versus the Ultimate X-Men

Entry topic: The Ultimates vs. MAGNETO and the (Ultimate) X-MEN

Entry title:
Ultimate Six #1-7 (Limited Series) - 2003/November-2004/June

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
(Ultimates appearance)

Entry topic: The Ultimates meet up (Ultimate) SPIDER-MAN

Entry title:
Ultimate Nightmare #1-5 (Limited Series) - 2004/October-2005/February

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Ultimate Nightmare: Pt.1-5 [Except Pages 1-6 of #1] (Ultimates appearance)

Entry topic: First appearance of Ultimate FALCON …VISION lives again in a female-like form

Entry title:
Ultimate Spider-Man #70 (Volume 1) - 2005/February

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Strange: Pt.1 (Ultimates appearance)

Entry title:
Ultimate Secret #1-4 (Limited Series) - 2005/May-December

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
(Ultimates appearance)

Entry topic: First appearance of Ultimate CAPTAIN MARVEL and CAROL DANVERS

Entry title:
Ultimate Extinction #1-3 (Limited Series) - 2006/March-May

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
[Except Pages 10-21 of #3] (Nick Fury, Captain America and Falcon appearances)

Entry topic: First appearance of Ultimate SILVER SURFER

Entry title:
Ultimate Spider-Man #86-88 | Ultimate X-Men #65 | Ultimate Fantastic Four #25-26 - 2006/January-February

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Visions: Pt.1-6 (Sam Wilson appearance)

Entry topic: The birth of the new VISION

Entry title:
Ultimate Extinction #3-5 (Limited Series) - 2006/May-July

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
[Except pages 1-9 of #3, and Pages 20-22 of #5] (Fury, Iron Man, Capt. America and Falcon appearances)

Entry topic: GAH LAK TUS defeated by Reed Richards and Charles Xavier

Entry title:
Ultimate Vision #1 (Limited Series) - 2007/February

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Ultimate Vision: Pt. 1 [Pages 1-3] (Nick Fury, Iron Man and Falcon appearances)

Entry topic: The VISION heps to defeat GAH LAK TUS

Entry title:
Ultimate Extinction #5 (Limited Series) - 2006/July

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Ultimate Extinction: Pt. 5 [Pages 20-22] (Fury, Tony Stark, Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson appearances)

Entry title:
Ultimate Vision #1-5 (Limited Series) - 2007/February - 2008/January

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Ultimate Vision: Pt. 1 [Except Pages 1-3 of #1] (Nick Fury and Falcon appearances)

Entry topic: VISION save the World and fights against (A.I.M.'s leader) GEORGE TARLETON

Entry title:
Ultimate Fantastic Four #31-32 (Volume 1) - 2006/August-September

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Frightful: Pt.2-3 (Ultimates appearance)

Entry topic: Ultimate Doctor Doom enters the Marvel ZOMBIE UNIVERSE…

Entry title:
Ultimates #1 (Volume 2) - 2005/February

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Untitled

Entry topic: Ultimates Vol.2 begins here

Entry title:
Ultimates #2 (Volume 2) - 2005/March

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Dead Man Walking

Entry topic: TONY STARK becomes engaged to BLACK WIDOW

Entry title:
Ultimates #3 (Volume 2) - 2005/April

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Trial of the Incredible Hulk

Entry topic: A sentence of death for BRUCE BANNER (a.k.a. Hulk)

Entry title:
Ultimates #4 (Volume 2) - 2005/May

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Brothers

Entry topic: TONY STARK gives a suit of armor to Natasha Romanova

Entry title:
Ultimates #5 (Volume 2) - 2005/June

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
The Passion Play

Entry topic: The Ultimates versus THOR

Entry title:
Ultimates X-Men #63-65 (Volume 1) - 2005/November-2006/January

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Magnetic North: Pt.2-5 (Ultimates appearances)

Entry topic: The Ultimates versus the Ultimate X-MEN

Entry title:
Ultimates #6 (Volume 2) - 2005/July

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
The Defenders [Pages 1-21]

Entry topic: Entering Ultimate DEFENDERS

Entry title:
Ultimates #10 (Volume 2) - 2006/March

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
The Axis of Evil [Flashback sequence: Pages 1-2]

Entry topic: Ultimates crippled a Middle East nation (Iraq)

Entry title:
Ultimates #6 (Volume 2) - 2005/July

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
The Defenders [Pages 22-23]

Entry title:
Ultimates Annual #1 (One Shot Annual) - 2005/October

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
The Reserves

Entry topic: Entering the (Ultimates) Reserves

Entry title:
Ultimates #7 (Volume 2) - 2005/September

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Wolf In the Fold

Entry topic: BLACK WIDOW murdered the HAWKEYE's family

Entry title:
Ultimates #8 (Volume 2) - 2005/November

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Born on the Fourth of July

Entry topic: CAPTAIN AMERICA arrested for betrayal

Entry title:
Ultimates #9 (Volume 2) - 2006/January

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Grand Theft America

Entry topic: America take down by the LIBERATORS

Entry title:
Ultimates #10 (Volume 2) - 2006/March

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
The Axis of Evil [Pages 6-26]

Entry title:
Ultimates #11 (Volume 2) - 2006/July

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
America Strikes back

Entry topic: The Ultimates figh for liberation, and the return of HULK

Entry title:
Ultimates #12 (Volume 2) - 2006/August

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
The Avengers

Entry topic: CAPTAIN AMERICA versus THE COLONEL (a.k.a. Abdul al-Rahman)

Entry title:
Ultimates #13 (Volume 2) - 2007/February

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Independence Day [Except Pages 37-45]

Entry topic: Mark Millar/Bryan Hitch Era ends here, …and THOR defeats Loki

Entry title:
Ultimates #13 (Volume 2) - 2007/February

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Independence Day [Pages 37-41]

Entry topic: The Ultimates quit S.H.I.E.L.D.

Entry title:
Ultimates Annual #2 (One Shot Annual) - 2006/October

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Untitled [Except the flashback sequence]

Entry topic: Captain America and Falcon versus ARMIN ZOLA (cyborg)

Entry title:
Ultimate Spider-Man #105 (Volume 1) - 2007/April

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Clone Saga, Epilogue (Ultimates appearance)

Entry title:
Ultimate Power #1-2 (Limited Series) - 2006/December-2007/January

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Ultimate Power: Pt. 1-2 (Ultimates appearance)

Entry topic: SQUADRON SUPREME (from "Earth-31916") invaded the Ultimate Universe

Entry title:
Ultimate Power #3-4 (Limited Series) - 2007/February-June

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Ultimate Power: Pt. 3-4 (Ultimates appearance)

Entry topic: Ultimate Heroes teletransported into the "Supremeverse" (Earth-31916)

Entry title:
Ultimate Power #5-6 (Limited Series) - 2007/July-September

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Ultimate Power: Pt. 5-6 (Ultimates appearance)

Entry topic: The Ultimates versus the Squadron Supreme... and THOR versus HYPERION

Entry title:
Ultimate Power #7-8 (Limited Series) - 2007/October-December

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Ultimate Power: Pt. 7-8 (Ultimates and Hulk appearances)

Entry topic: Enter the original Squadron Supreme of Earth-712… and the HULK!

Entry title:
Ultimate Power #9 (Limited Series) - 2008/February

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Ultimate Power: Pt. 9 (Ultimates and Hulk appearances)

Entry topic: The Ultimates agree to turn over NICK FURY to the Earth-31916

Entry title:
Ultimate Human #1-4 (Limited Series) - 2008/March-June

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Ultimate Human: Pt. 1-4 (Iron Man and Hulk appearances)

Entry topic: LEADER revealed his origin… and Tony Stark failed to cure Bruce Banner

Entry title:
Ultimates Saga (One Shot) - 2007/December

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Truer Words… (Tony Stark appearance)

Entry title:
Ultimates #1 (Volume 3) - 2008/February

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
Sex, Lies and DVD: Pt.1 - Improbable Cause

Entry topic: Ultimates Vol.3 begins here… and the murder of the SCARLET WITCH!

Entry title:
Ultimates #2 (Volume 3) - 2008/March

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
[March on Ultimatum tie-in] Sex, Lies and DVD: Pt.2 - Brotherhood

Entry topic: the Ultimates versus MAGNETO and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants

Entry title:
Ultimates #3 (Volume 3) - 2008/March

What's on Chronology? (the exact sequence of the pages are indicated in bold, eventually):
[March on Ultimatum tie-in] Sex, Lies and DVD: Pt.3 - Siblings [Except Pages 6-15]

Entry topic: revealed the relation between WOLVERINE and Wanda and Pietro's mother

Total Entries/Issues for current Highlight: 66