Add to favoritesThe Ultraverse can be a tough one to map because of the many crossovers and guest appearances. However, it is much easier if you take it on a series by series basis and don’t try to fit them all together. That being said, I have discovered that it’s best to first determine which series you want to collect and bind, and then obtain all of the issues first, instead of focusing on one or two series at a time. Malibu liked to put extras in certain issues that actually belonged with other series. One gimmick was the month that each series contained a two page origin sequence . . . for another series.
For the most part, I am looking at binding each series individually. However, I have developed a few volumes that put crossovers and intertwined plots together, especially for the later years after Marvel took over.
Firearm
Firearm #0-6
Prime #10
Firearm #7-11
Ultraverse Premiere #5-7 (Iron Clad story)
Firearm #12-14
Firearm #15 (page 1-21)
Freex #15 (page 10-11, 13-end)
Night Man #14 (page 1-6, 11-23)
Firearm #15 page 22-end
Firearm #16-18
Codename: Firearm #0-2 (backups)
-Firearm #0 came with a VHS tape of a film that continued into the comic. There is some discrepancy online as to where to place the issue. It was cover dated November 1993 (same as #3), but #1-4 are a continuous arc with #5 occurring really soon afterward and leading into #6 and Prime #10. It seemed a bit too far to push it all the way to before #7.
-Firearm #2 contains a chapter of Rune #0.
-Firearm #4 is a Break-Thru tie-in, but has very little to do with the crossover. It’s almost a literal “red sky” tie-in.
-Firearm #5 has a Prime origin sequence presented as a two page spread. It shares a page with a Firearm pin-up, and can easily be extracted if needed. However, I opted to leave it in place, because it’s a good recap of the Prime series prior to the crossover that starts in Firearm #6.
-Ultraverse Premiere #5-7 are on the flip sides of Firearm #11, Prototype #13, and Hardcase #16. The feature is not necessary, but ties into the Rafferty Saga that runs in Firearm #12-18. It’s about another character that the bad guy goes after. I used the cover of UVP #6 before the arc, because it had the best art of Iron Clad available.
-If you want to include Freex #15 and Night Man #14 in order, you will need to scan and print pages 21 and 22 of Firearm #15. Most of Freex #15 overlaps with Firearm #15 and isn’t needed for the Firearm/Rafferty story. I scanned page 10 of Freex #15 to go on the back of Firearm #15 page 21. Since I still wanted to use the Freex #15 cover somewhere because it was a close up shot of Rafferty that paralleled the close up of Firearm on Firearm #15, I put the cover between pages 11 and 13 (page 12 was an unrelated subplot). I scanned page 23 of Night Man #14 to go on the front of page 22 of Firearm #15.
-The discarded pages from Night Man #14 could be used for a Strangers volume, if you are so inclined. (See below for the Strangers map!)
-The Strangers #17 is a Rafferty tie-in but unnecessary to the main Firearm narrative. There’s also no good way to splice that issue into Firearm.
-Prime #20 is another Rafferty tie-in but everything that you need to know from that issue is presented in Firearm #15-16 and Night Man #14. There is no clean way to insert any of the Prime issues.
-The first page of the backup story from Codename: Firearm #2 shares a story page with the main story.
Night Man Volume 1
origin from Solitaire #3
Night Man #1-2
Freex #6
Night Man #3-11
Night Man #12 (Hostile Takeover 1)
Solution #13 (Hostile Takeover 3)
Giant Size Prototype #1 (Hostile Takeover 4, skip back-up story)
Night Man #13
-The origin feature in Solitaire #3 is a two page front and back deal, and can easily be extracted from that issue.
-Night Man #1 contains a chapter of Rune #0.
-NM #2 and Freex #6 are Break-Thru crossovers, but they don’t tie in heavily with the Break-Thru bookend issues.
-Night Man #4 features the Firearm origin, which is presented as a two page spread. It shares a page with the letter column, but not any story pages.
-Prototype #13 is the prologue to Hostile Takeover, and Solitaire #10 is part 2, both of which I skipped for this volume because they did not feature Night Man. The best place to include the entire Hostile Takeover crossover would be in a Prototype volume, which I have not done. Interestingly enough, you could try to isolate Hostile Takeover in its own volume and map the other series around that, but it would be ultimately cheaper to just buy four copies of each issue and bind it multiple times.
Night Man Volume 2
Night Man #14
Night Man Annual #1
Strangers Annual #1
Night Man #15-16
Ultraverse Premiere #11 (Rhiannon story, flip book with Night Man #16)
Night Man #17-23
Night Man #∞
Night Man vs. Wolverine
Night Man Vol. 2 #1-4
-Night Man #23 features part 2 of a Hellblade story that can be removed. (That story ties into All-New Exiles, and is reprinted in that series in full later on.)
-The last few issues of volume 1 continue directly into the Infinity issue which pretty much continues directly into the Wolverine special and volume 2 mini-series. That’s why I’m not worried about making a volume break there to fit around other Black September books. (I did use a duplicate of Night Man #22 in the Black September book.)
-OPTIONAL: Night Man/Gambit #1-3 can be added to the end, but it’s not by Englehart, and there are very few decent reviews of it, so beware.
Prime Volume 1
Ultraverse Premiere #0 (Prime origin)
Prime #1-7
Break Thru #2
Prime #8
Mantra #7
Prime #9
Firearm #6
Prime #10-13
Giant Size Freex #1 (main story only)
Freex #12
Prime #14-15
-I cut out the last few pages of Freex #12 after Prime leaves the group, so it wouldn’t leave them on a cliffhanger that I had no intentions of resolving in this volume.
Prime Volume 2
Prime #1/2
Prime #16
Prime Annual #1
Prime #17-18
Sludge #12/Ultraverse Premiere #8
Ultraverse Double Feature #1 (Prime side only)
Prime #19-24
Power of Prime #1
Prime #25-26
Power of Prime #2-4
-Prime #1/2 was a little tricky to place. It was cover dated April 1994, same as Prime #11. However, due to it being a special Wizard issue, that’s the least reliable piece of information in the book. It features the “badass” Prime form which was in Prime #10-16. Finally, the Sketchbook shows the bad guys from Prime #12-13 as upcoming. However, the story itself flashes back to their encounter in #12. It could probably fit any number of places between Prime #10-16 (some better than others), but I chose before #16 to even out the volumes.
-Sludge #12 had a cover date of December 1994, the same as Prime #18 (continued directly from #17). The first feature of Ultraverse Premiere #8 was the eight page conclusion to Sludge #12, with which it was a flipbook.
-UV Double Feature was cover dated January 1995.
Prime Volume 3
Prime vs. Hulk #0
Prime #∞
Prime vol 2 #1-5
Prime/Captain America
>Prime vol 2 #6-15
-Everything goes by publication date. The Cap team up could maybe shift to after #8 and then it would keep Breyfogle art together.
Rune
Rune #0 (collects all of the 3 page chapters from the other books)
Rune #1-6
Giant Size Rune #1 (main story)
Rune #7-9
Giant Size Rune #1 (second story and backup features)
Solitaire
Solitaire #1-12
Ultraverse Double Feature (Solitaire story only)
-The covers for Solitaire #1-6 tell a story that goes between #5 and 6. All six covers are reproduced on the inside cover of #6.
-Solitaire #2 is a Break-Thru tie-in, but Solitaire doesn’t really participate in the main part of the crossover.
-Solitaire #10 is part of Hostile Takeover, but Solitaire does not appear in any other parts of the crossover, so they are not needed for this volume.
The Solution
The Solution #0-4
Break-Thru #2
The Solution #5-12
Night Man #12 (Hostile Takeover 1)
The Solution #13 (Hostile Takeover 3)
Giant Size Prototype #1 (Hostile Takeover 4, skip back-up story)
The Solution #14-17
Ultraverse Premiere #10 (Casino story, flip book with The Solution #16)
-Hardcase #7 crosses over with The Solution #3-4 as part of Break-Thru, but it’s completely recapped in The Solution #4, so I omitted it here. Break-Thru #2 is needed to resolve the cliffhanger.
-As with Night Man, I skipped the prologue (Prototype #13) and part 2 (Solitaire #10) of Hostile Takeover as they are not relevant to the Solution.
The Strangers
Ultraverse Premiere #0 (Strangers/Yrial)
The Strangers #1-3
Hardcase #4
The Strangers #4-6
Break-Thru #1
Prototype #5
The Strangers #7
Break-Thru #2
The Strangers #8-13
Mantra #12
Ultraverse Premiere #4, 6-7 (Ladykiller)
The Strangers #14-18
Night Man Annual #1
The Strangers Annual #1
The Strangers #19-20
UVP #8 (Grenade/Electrocute)
The Strangers #21-24
-Pages 7-10 of Night Man #14 parallel a sequence in Strangers #18, and you might have those pages left over from binding Firearm. It does take a bit of work to smoothly insert those pages into Strangers, so I ended up leaving them out.
-I used the UVP #7 cover to go along with the Ladykiller story.
Break-Thru
Exiles #1-4
Hardcase #7
Break-Thru #1
Sludge #3
Prime #7
Mantra #6
Prototype #5
The Strangers #7
Freex #6
Night Man #3
The Solution #4
Break-Thru #2
Ultraverse Origins #1
-Solitaire #2 was left out because it’s a “Red Skies” crossover and barely mentions Break-Thru.
-Firearm #4 was left out because it’s the final part of the opening arc, and only briefly touches on Break-Thru.
-Prototype #5 and The Strangers #7 tie together.
-Freex #6 and Night Man #3 tie together.
-Hardcase #7 and Solution #4 loosely tie together. However, Hardcase #7 ties in with events from Break-Thru #1, and has to take place prior.
-Ultraverse Origins isn’t necessary. It reprints the various origin stories that showed up in Ultraverse books a few months prior to Break-Thru. I placed it here since it was the best fit.
Godwheel (Countdown to Black September)
Ultraverse Premiere #3 (Lord Pumpkin origin story)
Lord Pumpkin #0
Mantra #17
Giant Size Warstrike #1
Godwheel #0 (front cover and chapter one)
Godwheel #0 (back cover and chapter two)
Godwheel #1 (front cover and chapter one)
Godwheel #1 (back cover and chapter two)
Godwheel #2 (back cover and chapters one and two)
Godwheel #2 (front cover and chapter three)
Godwheel #3
Rune/Silver Surfer
Silver Surfer/Rune (flip side of above)
Mantra #18-20
Lord Pumpkin #1 (flip book with Necro-Mantra #1)
Lord Pumpkin #2 (flip book with Necro-Mantra #2)
Necro-Mantra #1 (flip book with Lord Pumpkin #1)
Necro-Mantra #2 (flip book with Lord Pumpkin #2)
Necro-Mantra #3 (flip book with Lord Pumpkin #3)
Lord Pumpkin #3 (flip book with Necro-Mantra #3)
Lord Pumpkin/Necro-Mantra #4 (not a flip book)
Hardcase #23
Mantra #22
Night Man #22
Curse of Rune #1-4
Eliminator #0-3
Ultraforce #8-10
Ultraforce/Avengers Prelude
Avengers/Ultraforce
Ultraforce/Avengers
-Godwheel #0-2 came with flip covers. I interspersed the back covers with the issues, as each issue had multiple chapters.
-Eliminator #0 contains four stories originally intended for Ultraverse Premiere, but only two of the stories actually got published in that series.
-These are the issues that made up “the Ultraverse Spine”, a series of events leading up to Black September.
Black September
Black September #∞
Ultraforce #∞
Ultraforce #1-3
All-New Exiles #∞
All-New Exiles #1
Exiles vs. X-Men #0
Phoenix Resurrection #0
Phoenix Resurrection: Genesis
Phoenix Resurrection: Revelations
Phoenix Resurrection #0 (epilogue)
Ultraforce/Spider-Man #1A (pages 1-29)
Ultraforce/Spider-Man #1B (pages 18-40)
Ultraforce #4
All-New Exiles #4
Ultraforce #5-7
-Apparently there was some printing error with Ultraforce #1, so it was reprinted in the back of All New Exiles #1, and the front of Ultraforce #2. The Exiles version has a full page reproduction of the cover.
-The Phoenix Resurrection #0 issue reprints all of the flip stories from the #2 issues, plus an extra epilogue.
-There are two versions of Ultraforce/Spider-Man #1. Each has a different middle chapter (pages 18-29), although the beginning and the end are the same. Splicing them together will involve some scan-and-print.
-I left out the Phoenix Resurrection Aftermath, because that is more of a setup for Foxfire, and I literally fell asleep reading the issue.
Future Shock
All-New Exiles #8
Ultraforce #8-9
Ultraforce #10-11 (backups)
Ultraforce #10-11
All-New Exiles #11
Ultraforce #12
Ultraverse Unlimited #2
Ultraforce #13-15
Angels of Destruction
Ultraverse: Future Shock