Marvel Comics This Week: The Ultimate Universe Ends, VenoMJ Debuts a New Look, and Captain America Lands in Hell

Marvel's June 24 slate closes the book on the Ultimate Universe with ULTIMATE UNIVERSE: FINALE #1, sends Captain America into a Latverian nightmare alongside Doctor Doom, and reveals a brand-new look for VenoMJ. Here is the full rundown of new comics, collections, and Marvel Unlimited releases.

Marvel Comics This Week: The Ultimate Universe Ends, VenoMJ Debuts a New Look, and Captain America Lands in Hell

Marvel's June 24 release day is a milestone one: the publisher closes the curtain on its Ultimate Universe with ULTIMATE UNIVERSE: FINALE (2026) #1, strands Captain America in Hell beside Doctor Doom, and unveils a startling new look for VenoMJ. From single issues to fresh collections and Marvel Unlimited additions, here is everything hitting shelves this Wednesday.

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The End of the Ultimate Universe

After the seismic events of ULTIMATE ENDGAME #5, the creative teams behind Marvel's Ultimate line reunite one last time for ULTIMATE UNIVERSE: FINALE (2026) #1 — a send-off for the reimagined corner of the Marvel multiverse that writer Jonathan Hickman relaunched in 2023. The Ultimate Universe of the last few years reinvented Spider-Man, the X-Men, and the Avengers on a world remade by the Maker, and this issue is the formal goodbye to that experiment.

ULTIMATE UNIVERSE: FINALE (2026) #1 variant cover by Phil Noto featuring the Ultimate Universe heroes
ULTIMATE UNIVERSE: FINALE (2026) #1 cover by Phil Noto.

The road there runs through ULTIMATE ENDGAME (2025) #5 by Deniz Camp, Terry Dodson, and Jonas Scharf, in which the Ultimate Universe's weary heroes face a final, cataclysmic showdown with the Maker. The fallout keeps rippling in Christopher Condon and Stefano Caselli's ULTIMATE IMPACT: REBORN (2026) #2, where the Origin Boxes are scattered, new heroes and villains rise across the Marvel Universe, and Miles Morales races to undo the damage.

Captain America Frozen in Hell

In CAPTAIN AMERICA (2025) #12 by Chip Zdarsky and Valerio Schiti, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s campaign in Latveria ends in brutal fashion — and Steve Rogers winds up in the last place he ever expected, alongside the last person he expected to see again. With Doctor Doom currently positioned as one of the Marvel Universe's central power players, Cap's infernal detour is one of the week's most intriguing threads.

VenoMJ's New Era and a Return to the Outback

Al Ewing and Carlos Gomez give VenoMJ an all-new look in VENOM (2025) #259, as a face from Venom's past returns from the dead with a warning that could spell the end of the world — leaving Mary Jane Watson to decide who she can trust with her greatest secret.

Mutant fans get a nostalgia hit in X-MEN: OUTBACK (2026) #1 by Steve Orlando and Stephen Segovia, revisiting the late-1980s era when the world believed Storm, Wolverine, Rogue, Colossus, Dazzler, Havok, Psylocke, and Longshot were dead — while the team secretly safeguarded humanity from their hidden Australian headquarters.

New Comics — June 24

New Collections

New on Marvel Unlimited

What This Means for Marvel Fans

This is a bookend week. The conclusion of the Ultimate Universe clears the decks for whatever Marvel builds next in that space, while CAPTAIN AMERICA, VENOM, and the X-line keep their ongoing sagas barreling forward. Readers can grab these at their local comic shop or redeem a digital copy in the Marvel Unlimited app using the code found inside each print issue — a handy way to keep the whole week's haul in one place.