Ultimate Origins
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Cover to Ultimate Origins #1
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
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| Publication date | August — December 2008 |
| No. of issues | 5 |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Brian Bendis |
| Artist(s) | Butch Guice |
Ultimate Origins is a comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics, released in June 2008. It falls under Marvel's Ultimate Marvel imprint. It was written by Brian Bendis and illustrated by Butch Guice. It was intended to be a chapter in the development of Ultimatum, a crossover event scheduled to begin in September 2008.
Jeph Loeb has stated in an interview with Comic Book Resources: "What Ultimate Origin is going to do is sort of tell us how it all began. ... The Ultimate Universe isn't very old, so this isn't a cosmic story. You're not going to see the birth of a planet. What you'll see is how the superhero community was introduced into the human population. So you'll learn the importance of things like the Super Soldier program, which has been hinted at in Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimates 1 and 2. Now, Brian is going to connect the dots."
The story opened with a scene from Ultimate Marvel Team-Up 3, where Spider-Man is confronting a deranged Bruce Banner, who is agitated and tells Spider-Man "it's all connected." General Ross arrives, and despite Spider-Man's attempts to defuse the situation, Banner transforms into the Hulk and escapes.
The setting then transfers back several decades, to 1942, at Battle of the Tenaru. An American "super-soldier", who is just a normal GI in a distinctive uniform that resembles the costume of Citizen V from Earth-616, rallies his men in the face of a Japanese attack. However, the super-soldier is killed, his blood staining the American flag. A photograph of this image is released around the world, and President Roosevelt demands a true super-soldier from his advisors, rather than a normal soldier in costume.
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