Nick Fury will soon play an important role in Marvel’s Ultimate Universe. A new one-shot story featuring Fury will set the stage for Marvel’s upcoming year of Ultimate Universe stories to come.

Deniz Camp and Chris Condon’s Ultimate Universe: One Year one-shot gives a glimpse at Fury’s important role in the Maker’s Ultimate Universe, with Marvel revealing a first look at the interior art of the story that gives readers a glimpse of Fury in action. The pages show him, along with the Maker’s council, as they convene to discuss the rise of super-heroes on Earth-6160 who are trying to bring peace and hope to the Maker’s corrupt universe. Two other preview pages show the arrival of Ultimate Wolverine in the one-shot. Marvel also unveiled cover art, including a piece by comic book legend Frank Miller depicting the Maker and an epic cover by Josemaria Casanovas that will connect with other ongoing Ultimate Universe titles. The Ultimate Universe: One Year In one-shot goes on sale Dec. 11.

Since the Ultimate Universe launched in 2023 with Jonathan Hickman and Bryan Hitch’s Ultimate Invasion limited series, readers have been curious about the origins of the world created by Reed Richards (aka The Maker), and it appears that the arrival of Nick Fury may reveal some of the universe’s darkest truths. Over the past year, titles like Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate Black Panther, Ultimate X-Men and The Ultimates have fleshed out the universe — and the one-shot appears ready to set the stage for even more big action in 2025.

ULTIMATE UNIVERSE: ONE YEAR IN #1

• Written by DENIZ CAMP & CHRIS CONDON
• Art by JONAS SCHARF & ALESSANDRO CAPPUCCIO
• Cover Art by RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE
• Variant Cover Art by ALESSANDRO CAPPUCCIO, PEACH MOMOKO, STEFANO CASELLI, DIKE RUAN, MARCO CHECCHETTO, JOSEMARIA CASANOVAS, FRANK MILLER
• On Sale Dec. 11

December’s one-shot story prepares Marvel’s Ultimate Universe for another year of creative storytelling, with the issue also featuring the debut of Ultimate Wolverine. The character will go on to star in his own solo series, the first to be released in 2025 and the fifth in the Ultimate Universe overall. Marvel has already teased that the new Ultimate Wolverine will stay true to Wolverine’s roots as a government weapon, but the Ultimate Universe will put a twist on things and see him be a mindwiped assassin who is used by the Maker.

“You might notice that there’s a Red Star on his costume, and you might wonder why. If you look at that mask, there’s a muzzle on him, and that’s because he’s wild,” writer Chris Condon said, teasing the character in Marvel’s announcement of the new series. The Ultimate Universe: One Year In one-shot hints at the deadly nature of the new Wolverine, who is dubbed as the ‘Maker’s ultimate weapon, the Winter Soldier’ in the one-shot, which includes a prequel story to Condon and Alessandro Cappuccio’s Ultimate Wolverine series which debuts on Jan. 15.

Ultimate Universe: One Year In #1 can be preordered now and goes on sale Dec. 11 from Marvel Comics.

Source: Marvel