This fourth collection in the Ultimates line newly re-imagines incarnations of the Hulk, Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, and other Marvel Comics heroes. When Nick Fury, head of an elite espionage agency, hears about several bizarre characters and misfits, he puts together a small but lethal army known as the Ultimates, created to protect mankind from rising threats. Full color.

The Ultimates-the first government-sponsored cadre of Super Heroes-was assembled to face threats to humanity too insanely powerful for other operatives to handle. Led by a general who gave an eye in the service of his country, the super-powered roster includes a billionaire playboy in a high-tech suit of armor, a World War II super-soldier whom fate has thrust into the twenty-first century, an environmentalist icon who claims to be an ancient Norse...

Mutants who have committed capital crimes are hunted for sport on the island of Krakos. When the X-Men are sent in to rescue Longshot, the mutant who has survived the longest, they find themselves caught up in the game instead. A malevolent media mogul named Mojo threatens to make Angel a real angel if Longshot isn't turned over to him.

"From cosmic forces lurking on earth to whatever waits beyond the omniverse-- they start with the impossible and take it from there! And what's more impossible than ending the threat of Galactus... forever? The devourer of worlds is beyond good and evil. He's a necessary part of the universe. The Ultimates have heard it all before-- and respectfully, they disagree. The bigger they are, the harder they fall-- but if they succeed in taking him down,...