Meet Marvel's original first choice to write Ultimate Spider-Man: Chip Zdarsky
Marvel's new comic book series Ultimate Spider-Man is the company's biggest hit of the year - and whatever is in second is at a distant second. Since its debut January 10, the first issue has sold out five times in just four months, and since then, each issue has been the top-selling comic book in comic stores worldwide three out of the past four months based on point-of-sale data.Ultimate Spider-Man is by writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Marco Checchetto, and for Hickman, its his latest resurgence after a string of hits going back 15 years but also a few recent misses. But as Popverse has learned, Hickman wasn't Marvel's original choice to write Ultimate Spider-Man, no. That's even though he wrote the prequel, 2023's Ultimate Invasion.Marvel's first choice to write this reboot of Ultimate Spider-Man, the title which in its original re-incarnation revitalized the hero and set-up the building blocks for modern Marvel phenomenon, was someone else - someone that ended up being too busy to write it, as he was writing DC's Batman. Read more
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