Ultimate Fantastic Four a series epilogue in "Ultimate Fantastic Four: Requiem". "Ultimate Fantastic Four" was the fifth continuing series of the Ultimate Marvel series, after "Ultimate Spider-Man", "Ultimate X-Men" and "The Ultimates" and "Ultimate Marvel Team-Up". The first writers assigned by project leader Bill Jemas were Mark Millar ("The Ultimates", "Ultimate X-Men") and Brian Michael Bendis ("Ultimate Spider-Man", "Ultimate X-Men"), who had both previously written comics in the Ultimate Marvel universe. Grant Morrison was involved in conceptualizing "Ultimate Fantastic Four" and was at one point set to write the series. However, he departed from Marvel for an exclusivity contract with DC Comics before
Marvel Comics was able to capitalize on its successful superhero comics of the previous decade by acquiring a new newsstand distributor and greatly expanding its comics line. Marvel pulled ahead of rival DC Comics in 1972, during a time when the price and format of the standard newsstand comic were in flux. Goodman increased the price and size of Marvel's November 1971 cover-dated comics from 15 cents for 36 pages total to 25 cents for 52 pages. DC followed suit, but Marvel the following month dropped its comics to 20 cents for 36 pages, offering a lower-priced product with a higher distributor