Ultimate Marvel Ultimate Marvel Ultimate Marvel, later known as Ultimate Comics, was an imprint of comic books published by Marvel Comics, featuring re-imagined and updated versions of the company's superhero characters from the Ultimate Universe. Those characters include Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Avengers and the Fantastic Four. The imprint was launched in 2000 with the publication of the series "Ultimate Spider-Man" and "Ultimate X-Men", providing new origin stories for the characters. The Ultimate Universe, as a part of a large-scale reboot of the All-New, All-Different Marvel multiverse, ended at the conclusion of the 2015 "Secret Wars" storyline, when select characters from the
Crusader (Marvel Comics) Crusader (Marvel Comics) Crusader is the name of different fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Two have made significant appearances and other are minor characters or aliases. The first Crusader first appeared in "Thor" #330 (April, 1983) and was created by writer Alan Zelenetz and penciller Bob Hall. The second is a Skrull superhero that first appeared in "Marvel Team-Up" vol. 3 #23 (Aug. 2006) and was created by Robert Kirkman and Andy Kuhn. Arthur Blackwood was born in Decatur, Illinois. He was a seminary student in Chicago, who believed that the church should become