Once every year, thousands of Marvel collectors from around the world gather together online to watch Near Mint Condition and vote on their most-wanted omnibus titles. That time approaches – time for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 14th Annual Secret Ballot! This post explains every Ultimate Marvel omnibus map for material that has not yet been collected comprehensively in omnibus – all of which will appear as options on the 2026 poll.
As one of the organizers of the poll, I work closely with Tigereyes and a team of Mapping Minties to be sure Marvel’s entire publishing history has been mapped, with every issue fitting somewhere into an omnibus volume to fill your oversize Marvel shelf. Then, we’ll kick off the poll on Near Mint Condition on March 22, 2026.
We’re at a fascinating crossroads for collecting Ultimate Marvel. With the printing of Ultimate Fantastic Four Vol. 2 and Ultimate X-Men Vol. 3 & Vol. 4 in 2026, we’re now down to a very small pool of comics from the original Marvel Ultimate Universe. We could knock out all of the remaining issues in just three omnis!
We’re also about to wrap up the initial three years of the new Ultimate Marvel Universe! That could yield five different small omnibuses for each title line… or… we could do an Anthology of all of the Ultimate Universe together, in the style of Krakoa!
Read this post and others in the series for a list of titles and omnibus mappings created by a group of the biggest collected edition enthusiasts on the internet. Every map is informed by Crushing Krisis comic guides and over a decade of polling data as explained by yours truly – keeper of the most-definitive guides to Marvel’s collected editions on the planet, including my Guide to Marvel Ultimate Universe.
Even if you don’t own a single omnibus, you can use this post to learn about Marvel’s history of material and find great comics to read physically or digitally!
This post covers the following speculated omnibus volumes:
- Ultimate Marvel Omnibus Mapping – The Original Ultimate Marvel Universe
- Ultimate Marvel: The Galactus Trilogy & Other Stories (2001 – 2008) [includes orphaned material like Adventures, Daredevil & Elektra, Iron Man, etc]
- Ultimate Marvel: Ultimatum (2006 – 2009) [event omni; could include Ultimate Power]
- Ultimate Marvel: Ultimates by Jeph Loeb (2006 – 2011) [fills between Millar Vol. 2 & Hickman; includes Ultimate Power]
- Ultimate Marvel: Ultimate Comics – Cataclysm & Ultimate End (2012 – 2015) [follows Hickman omni to Cataclysm, then to 2014 Ultimates & FF series]
- Ultimate Marvel Omnibus Mapping – The 2024 Marvel Ultimate Universe
- Ultimate Universe: Ultimate Marvel Anthology Vol. 1 (2024 & on) [Anthology of all titles in reading order]
- Ultimate Universe: Ultimate Black Panther by Bryan E. Hill (2024 – 2026)
- Ultimate Universe: Ultimate Spider-Man by Jonathan Hickman (2024 – 2026)
- Ultimate Universe: Ultimate Wolverine by Christopher Condon (2025 – 2026)
- Ultimate Universe: Ultimate X-Men by Peach Momoko (2024 – 2026)
- Ultimate Universe: Ultimates by Deniz Camp (2025 – 2026)
Remember: These titles and mappings are a suggestion of how Marvel could assemble these books. They are meant to make the books easy to find and to vote for. Your vote on the poll is a vote in favor of Marvel creating a book with that title or covering that period, NOT an endorsement of a specific mapping. Maps are presented as a proof of concept and to help you build your personal reading list.
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Ultimate Marvel Omnibus Mapping – The Original Ultimate Marvel Universe
Ultimate Marvel: The Galactus Trilogy & Other Stories (2001 – 2008) [includes orphaned material like Adventures, Daredevil & Elektra, Iron Man, etc]
We’ve significantly remapped this book this year to keep up with the shifting sands of what has been collected elsewhere in the Ultimate Marvel omnibus line.
In 2024, we thought the centerpiece of this book would be Ultimate Marvel Team-Up (2001). However, that title was printed in Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 5. Last year, we thought there was a possibility the Ultimate Fantastic Four omnibus line would include The Galactus Trilogy, but now we know it does not.
That dictates what this book now represents. It’s effectively almost everything from before Ultimatum that is not yet in omnibus, aside from Jeph Loeb’s run on Ultimates material. That’s primarily the now-abandoned Ultimate Galactus, plus Iron Man, Daredevil, and Elektra material.
While there might be other places to fit Ultimate Galactus, that would abandon the other 25 issues of material that happened prior to Ultimatum and have yet to be collected.
Now that we’re down to the leftovers of the Ultimate Universe, it’s hard to map them accurately, and it could be that we collapse things even further next year into a single “Companion” volume. But, we had to at least try to give some definition to what remains to see if it resonates with voters!
A vote for this book is a vote to capture everything else remaining prior to Ultimatum aside from Jeph Loeb material.
This would collect Ultimate Iron Man (2005) #1-5, Ultimate Iron Man II (2007) #1-5, Ultimate Adventures (2002) #1-6, Ultimate Daredevil & Elektra (2002) #1-4, Ultimate Elektra (2004) #1-5 and the Ultimate Galactus Trilogy (Ultimate Nightmare (2004) #1-5, Ultimate Secret (2005) #1-4 , Ultimate Extinction (2006) #1-5, with epilogue Ultimate Vision (2007) #0-5).
Ultimate Marvel Magazine #1-11 was an anthology series showcasing early Ultimate title issues, like Spider-Man and X-Men. The covers and any bonus materials could be collected here too, but there is no need to print the full issues.
Ultimate Marvel: Ultimates by Jeph Loeb (2006 – 2011) [fills between Millar Vol. 2 & Hickman; includes Ultimate Power]
Now that we know what little is left to be collected in the original Ultimate Universe thanks to the mapping of the Ultimate Fantastic Four line, this book has emerged in crisp focus as the most-obvious missing volume.
Jeph Loeb wrote several key Ultimate Marvel series after Mark Millar’s departure and before Jonathan Hickman’s brief dalliance in the line. First, he wrote Ultimate Power (2006) #1-9, which was part of the “Road to Ultimatum” and the first Ultimate Marvel book to seriously incorporate characters from another existing multiverse. He wrote Ultimatum (2008) itself, which has been in other omnibus lines but is best collected here. Then, he penned Ultimates 3 (2008) and continued onto Ultimate Comics New Ultimates (2010), neither of which have been collected in omnibus!
That’s a substantial and necessary omnibus all on its own. However, there are two other stories we could add to flesh it out (and save us having to map yet another gap-filling book). One is the brief passage of material by Warren Ellis in Ultimate Human (2008) and Ultimate Armor Wars (2009). The other is the Ultimate Doomsday Trilogy by Brian Bendis – which fits a bit better here than in the Cataclysm + End book, since it occurred a bit earlier in continuity (though perhaps it fits better there since it is penned by Bendis.
A vote for this book is a vote to fill in the most-obvious and well-defined remaining gap in your Ultimate Comics bookshelf!
This book would bridge everything “Ultimates” between Mark Millar’s original runs all the way up the Ultimate Marvel by Hickman Omnibus. That primarily includes Ultimates and Ultimatum material by Jeph Loeb, but it would also pick up two smaller stories by Warren Ellis and Brian Bendis along the way. In fact, you might consider this an alternative to a pure Ultimatum event omnibus to prevent as much double- and triple-dipping as possible with the X-Men and Fantastic Four lines.
This book would collect Ultimate Power (2006) #1-9, Ultimate Human (2008) #1-4, Ultimate Armor Wars (2009) #1-4, Ultimates 3 (2008) #1-5, Ultimate Origins (2008) #1-5, Ultimate Captain America (2008) Annual 1, Ultimate Hulk (2008) Annual 1, March on Ultimatum Saga (2008) One-Shot, Ultimatum (2009) #1-5, and Marvel Spotlight: Ultimatum (2008) #1.
It would then push past Ultimatum into the rebranded “Ultimate Comics” era to collect Ultimate Comics New Ultimates (2010) #1-5, and Ultimate Comics Captain America (2010) #1-4. It might also collect Brian Bendis’s Ultimate Doomsday Trilogy (Ultimate Enemy (2010) #1-4, Ultimate Mystery (2010) #1-4 and Ultimate Doom (2010) #1-4), but that may fit better with his Cataclysm and The End material.
Ultimate Marvel: Ultimatum (2006 – 2009) [event omni; could include Ultimate Power]
Let me be clear: We don’t need this omnibus at this point, especially since we absolutely need that Jeph Loeb book I just described. It is for all of you crazy freaks who insist on having a complete event in a single book instead of spread out across the line.
(For the record, I am one of those crazy freaks.)
Even though we have Ultimatum material in the Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men and Ultimate Fantastic Four lines, both of them stick to material specific to their own characters. We could relocate some “March to Ultimatum” material in that Jeph Loeb book, but some of it isn’t a perfect fit there and would interrupt the focus on the Ultimates themselves.
If you vote for this book, you likely want to yank Ultimate Power (2006) and the “March” stuff out of the prior book to have it exclusively live here, but you will still need the prior book to fill in the gap in Ultimates series. There’s no way to do all of Ultimatum and all of that Ultimates material in one book.
A vote for this book is a vote for an all-in-one Ultimatum omnibus, which also can remove some material from a necessary Ultimates by Jeph Loeb omnibus.
This would be a pure Event Omnibus, collecting all of the March on Ultimatum bannered titles leading to the main mini-series, as well as Requiem epilogues.
Note that the Spider-Man, X-Men and Fantastic Four materials are all collected in their respective lines (or expected to be for F4), and the X-Men line includes the main event, so this isn’t strictly required to fill a gap on your shelf at this point. See the alternative “Ultimates: March to Ultimatum” entry for a map that compliments the wider Ultimate line collections.
This would collect Ultimates 3 (2008) #1-5, Ultimate Origins (2008) #1-5, Ultimate Captain America (2008) Annual #1, Ultimate Hulk (2008) Annual #1, Ultimate Spider-Man (2000) Annual #3, Ultimate Fantastic Four/Ultimate X-Men Annual (2008) #1, Ultimate X-Men/Ultimate Fantastic Four Annual (2008) #1), March on Ultimatum Saga (2008) One-Shot, Ultimatum (2009) #1-5, Ultimate X-Men (2001) #98-100, Ultimate Fantastic Four (2003) #58-60, Ultimate Spider-Man (2000) #129-133, Ultimatum: Spider-Man Requiem (2009) #1-2, Fantastic Four Requiem (2009) #1, and X-Men Requiem (2009) #1) and Marvel Spotlight: Ultimatum (2008) #1.
This book could easily start with Ultimate Power (2006) #1-9, since #7-9 were the first issues to carry the “March on Ultimatum” banner. If it did, it would also collect Ultimate Human (2008) #1-4, which leads to Ultimates 3 (2008).
Ultimate Marvel: Ultimate Comics – Cataclysm & Ultimate End (2012 – 2015) [follows Hickman omni to Cataclysm, then to 2014 Ultimates & FF series]
I remain staunch in my opinion that this should be a single massive book collecting everything remaining from Cataclysm through the end of the Marvel Ultimate Universe! This is potentially too big for one omnibus, but there is too much mapping ambiguity to meaningfully split it into two.
To do that, this book needs to accomplish three specific tasks, with an optional fourth.
- This needs to complete the collection of Ultimate Comics Ultimates (2011) from where the Ultimate Marvel by Jonathan Hickman leaves off as it is picked up by Sam Humphries and then Joshua Hale Fialkov.
- This needs to duplicate the existing oversize hardcover of Cataclysm: The Ultimates’ Last Stand to collect that entire event spinning out of Age of Ultron.
- This needs to mop up everything from the end phase of Ultimate Marvel that didn’t map into another omnibus before resolving with Ultimate End (2015). That is now down to just All-New Ultimates (2014) and Ultimate FF (2014) thanks to the mapping of Ultimate X-Men Vol. 4.
- Optionally, this could start with Brian Bendis’s “Ultimate Doomsday Trilogy,” since 2/3rds of that other material is heavily focused on Bendis. It might be a better read here than with the older, pre-Ultimatum material.
A vote for this book is a vote to resolve the final run of the original Ultimate Universe in one huge, event-packed omnibus!
This would follow the Ultimate Marvel by Hickman omnibus and collect all the remaining Ultimates materials up to Ultimate End.
First, this would collect Ultimate Comics Ultimates (2011) #13-30 & 18.1, Ultimate Comics Iron Man (2012) #1-4
Then, it would include all of Cataclysm: Hunger (2013) #1-4 followed by Cataclysm (2013) #0.1, Cataclysm: The Ulimates’ Last Stand (2013) #1-5, Cataclysm: Ultimate Spider-Man (2013) #1-3, Cataclysm: Ultimate X-Men (2013) #1-3, Cataclysm: Ultimates (2013) #1-3, and Survive! (2014) #1.
Finally, it would complete the Ultimates portion of the Ultimate Universe with All-New Ultimates (2014) #1-12, Ultimate FF (2014) #1-6 and Ultimate End (2015) #1-5, possibly supported from some excerpted material from Hickman’s Avengers: Time Runs Out and Secret Wars (2015) #0.
It might also collect Brian Bendis’s Ultimate Doomsday Trilogy (Ultimate Enemy (2010) #1-4, Ultimate Mystery (2010) #1-4 and Ultimate Doom (2010) #1-4), since so much of this material is also event-focused material by Bendis.
Ultimate Marvel Omnibus Mapping – The 2024 Marvel Ultimate Universe
Jonathan Hickman launched a new Marvel Ultimate Universe starting in 2024 that has been a massive hit with fans. It has followed its own consistent rules, with a defined set of sex uninterrupted ongoing titles, zero direct crossovers, and a storytelling pace that advances one month at a time so there is no sliding timescale. Learn more in my Guide to Ultimate Marvel.
Ultimate Universe: Ultimate Marvel Anthology Vol. 1 (2024 & on) [Anthology of all titles in reading order]
We’ve now seen the monstrous, sell-out level interest that Marvel fans have expressed in Marvel first two “Anthology” lines of multiple titles in perfect reading order – X-Men: Blue & Gold and The Age of Krakoa.
And, Marvel has subtly introduced a third Anthology-style line with Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch, which is an exquisitely-mapped line of books that pulls in every possible Ghost Rider series and OGN, including everything featuring Johnny Blaze in the same time period.
Given the highly-coordinated and interconnected nature of this new Ultimate Marvel Universe, it makes for a perfect candidate for another anthology line of omnibuses. This saves Marvel from marketing each individual title on its own across five different books. This could wrap things up in just 2-3 volumes and it allows Marvel to put Jonathan Hickman & Deniz Camp’s name on every volume of the series to help sell the books.
Plus, if the Ultimate Universe continues beyond its seeming end that’s happening right now, it would be easy to simply extend this anthology line, just as they have done with each phase of Krakoa.
It’s a win-win!
As for the exact mapping, we could quibble over the specifics. Would you include 1-2 issues of each title at a time. since they each occur one month at a time, or collect full six-issue arcs of each title? There’s no perfect answer, and anything Marvel decides would annoy some readers.
A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of Marvel’s smash-hit Ultimate Universe into a single omnibus line.
This would likely collect “Year One” of the new Ultimate Universe – Ultimate Invasion (2023) #1-4, Ultimate Universe (2023) #1, Ultimate Spider-Man (2024) #1-12, Ultimate Black Panther (2024) #1-11, Ultimate X-Men (2024) #1-10, The Ultimates (2024) #1-7, Ultimate Universe (2023) #1, and an Ultimates story from Free Comic Book Day 2024: Spider-Man/Ultimate Universe.
It might also include Ultimate Universe: One Year In (2024) #1, but that’s less the epilogue of this book and more like the start of Year Two.
Ultimate Universe: Ultimate Black Panther by Bryan E. Hill (2024 – 2026)
Bryan Hill’s Ultimate Black Panther (2024) offers an alternate origin for T’Challa – who remains king of a isolationist country in the present day of Marvel as it is finally pulled into the global war for super power thanks to the Moon Knights who control the rest of Africa (and an insurgent Storm and Killmonger who resist them).
This book is a very breezy, decompressed read. I could literally read the entire omnibus in under 90 minutes! And, there’s no other significant overlap with other books except for Ultimate Spider-Man: Incursion (2025) #2. For me, that’s a vote in favor of the Anthology style omnibus instead of this much slimmer book.
This would collect Ultimate Black Panther (2024) #1-24 and material from Ultimate Universe (2026) #1, and possibly Ultimate Spider-Man: Incursion (2025) #2.
Ultimate Universe: Ultimate Spider-Man by Jonathan Hickman (2024 – 2026)
Jonathan Hickman’s Peter Parker as an older family man who takes on the mantle of a hero is the shining jewel at the center of the new Ultimate Marvel Universe.
Fans have demanded a more mature Spider-Man who has grown older with Mary Jane for years and have rarely seen it outside of Renew Your Vows. Hickman writes it with as much heart as he’s put into any comic he’s penned at Marvel, and along the way weaves a twisted web of the impact of the nefarious Maker on this new Ultimate Universe.
I think this book would surely collect everything Hickman from the Ultimate Universe. The only question would be if it also includes the end of this era – in which Spider-Man is a major participant, but is written by Deniz Camp. That would mean doing some double-dipping with an Ulimates omnibus… all the more reason to stick with an Anthology-style line of books.
This would collect Ultimate Invasion (2023) #1-4, Ultimate Spider-Man (2024) #1-24, Ultimate Spider-Man: Incursion (2025) #1, and maybe also Ultimate Universe (2023) #1 (written by Hickman, but primarily an Ultimates story), Ultimate Endgame (2025) #1-5, and Ultimate Universe (2026) #1.
Ultimate Universe: Ultimate Wolverine by Christopher Condon (2025 – 2026)
With Ultimate X-Men (2024) focused on Peach Momoko’s charming Manga-influenced take on Armor alongside several new original characters, there was one gaping hole in the Ultimate Universe – the X-Men!
Ultimate Wolverine (2025) filled that gap. It ostensibly centered on Logan as this universe’s Winter Soldier, but along the way it pulled in every possible mutant cameo you could hope for – everything Peach Momoko’s book wasn’t delivering to traditional X-fans.
The problem is that this is the shortest of all of the individual Ultimate Universe omnibuses, because this was the final title to launch. And, you can’t really combine it with anything else – it’s vastly different than Momoko’s take, and it doesn’t really fit in with Camp’s more socially conscious Ultimates (even if both are cameo-fests with only a pinch of story).
This would collect Ultimate Wolverine (2025) #1-16 and material from Ultimate Universe: One Year In (2024) #1 and Ultimate Universe (2026) #1. It might also add Ultimate Spider-Man: Incursion (2025) #4-5.
Ultimate Universe: Ultimate X-Men by Peach Momoko (2024 – 2026)
Peach Momoko delivered an Ultimate X-Men comic unlike any other in-continuity series we’ve ever seen from Marvel. It is a singular work that might not appeal to fans of any other Marvel material, but which has massively appealed to fans open to reading a different style of comic.
This is Marvel comics as full-on Manga in every way – from the art influences to the paneling and the pacing. It focuses on a group of young girls in Japan as they negotiate the social challenges of school life combined with emerging superpowers – both their own and one of a shadowy figure taking advantage of the depression of their peers.
Also, Nico Minoru, for some reason!
This would collect Ultimate X-Men (2024) #1-24 and material from Ultimate Universe (2026) #1, and maybe also Ultimate Spider-Man: Incursion (2025) #3, which co-stars the main cast of this book.
Ultimate Universe: Ultimates by Deniz Camp (2025 – 2026)
Even if it was Jonathan Hickman who launched the new Ultimate Universe, it became Deniz Camp’s brainchild as it stretched into second year and then a finale.
Camp pulls an interesting trick on The Ultimates (2024), merging the typical fan-pleasing cameo-fest with a manifesto on woke politics. We’ve got everything from anti-capitalism, landback for indigenous people, carceral reform, and more! Plus, a failed attempt to spin of the Ultimate Guardians of the Galaxy and a bunch of badly-written poetry about Asgard.
This would be the longest omnibus in the line of individual books and also probably the one omnibus in the line that would read the best without any other material added. This is really the full overarching story of the Ultimate Universe from inception to end as soon at a macro level, rather than the personal microcosm of Hickman’s Ultimate Spider-Man.
This would collect Ultimate Universe (2023) #1 (written by Hickman, but primarily an Ultimates story) The Ultimates (2024) #1-24, Ultimate Universe: One Year In (2024) #1, Ultimate Spider-Man: Incursion (2025) #1-5 (co-written by Camp, essentially a tour of all the major powers in the Ultimate Universe through the eyes of Miles Morales), Ultimate Hawkeye (2025) #1, Ultimate Universe: Two Years In (2025) #1, Ultimate Endgame (2025) #1-5, and Ultimate Universe (2026) #1
You might argue that this ought to begin with Ultimate Invasion (2023) #1-4, written by Hickman but setting up the entire Universe – and you wouldn’t be wrong!
Maybe put Official Handbook of the Ultimate Marvel Universe #1-2 and The Ultimates Saga (2007) #1 somewhere? Also, has The Ultimates Annual (2005) #2 been included in an Omnibus yet?