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Everything You Wanted From Ultimate Spider-Man Before It All Goes Away
Everything You Wanted From Ultimate Spider-Man Before Marvel Takes It All Away (Ultimate Spider-Man #22 Spoilers)
Article Summary
- Ultimate Spider-Man #22 jumps ahead three months, breaking its usual real-time storytelling format.
- Gwen Stacy's fate is revealed, reigniting the Peter Parker and Mary Jane romance fans have missed.
- The story focuses on Peter, MJ, and family struggles, bringing back classic Spider-Man emotional stakes.
- Only three issues remain in Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto's acclaimed Ultimate Spider-Man run.
Spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers…. Ultimate Spider-Man, part of the Ultimate Universe currently published by Marvel Comics, has been running in real time. Every month, it's a month later in both real time and comic book time. Except that is for Ultimate Spider-Man #22 by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto, out today, not set in October but December, three months after the last issue. Given that the next issue will be a month late, that might actually fit this schedule. Will the final three issues of the series all be set in December? And for those who have been complaining, and there are many of you, that the comic has become Ultimate New York rather than Ultimate Spider-Man, this issue gives you more Peter Parker, more Spider-Man, more Mary Jane than you could possibly want. As they discuss the… absence of Gwen Stacy. At the end of the last issue, she was blown up by James Wesley, a fellow Mysetrio. And it looks like Gwen Stacy didn't make it.

Well, when it was Gwen Stacy who died in the 616, of course, he did get over it. Eventually. And then move on to Mary Jane.

Ah, it's the married Peter Parker and Mary Jane flirting that you have spent the last few months missing. Well, you get all that and more…

There is something about one partner wearing the other partner's clothes in such a scenario, isn't there? But can Ultimate Peter Parker ever be happy?

Something terrible? What could that possibly be? Where is their son, Richard Parker, right now?

The Ultimate Superior Spider-Man has his own plans. And with great power there must come great responsibility… of course in the 616 future of the Age Of Revelation, that Peter Parker has definitely moved on…

…with Cecilia Reyes! Ultimate Spider-Man #22 by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto and Radioactive Spider-Man #1 by Joe Kelly and Kev Walker is published by Marvel Comics today.
- Ultimate Spider-Man #22 by Jonathan Hickman, Marco Checchetto
THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF [REDACTED]! October 22nd 2025 - Ultimate Spider-Man #23 by Jonathan Hickman, Marco Checchetto
You think we're going to tell you what happens in the penultimate issue of ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN? That would be spoilers galore! Just know it's building to a finale you won't want to miss! December 10th 2025 - Ultimate Spider-Man #24 by Jonathan Hickman, Marco Checchetto
THE END OF THE LINE! This is it, folks – the last you'll see of Spidey and his Ultimate friends by Jonathan Hickman & Marco Checchetto! That's all we can tell you! December 24th 2025. - Radioactive Spider-Man #1 by Joe Kelly, Kev Walker
UNFRIENDLY AND UNSTABLE! X YEARS LATER, the X-Virus decimated New York – but Spider-Man won't stop fighting. In a desperate gamble, Peter Parker doses himself with lethal radiation to hold the infection at bay. Survival comes at a cost. While this may not kill Peter Parker, it sure messes him up. This is the most dangerous, mutated Spider-Man ever – and he's not alone.










