Ultimate Elektra is a five-issue comic book

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 limited series

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, which serves as a follow-up to Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra

Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra

Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra is a four-issue comic book mini-series published by Marvel Comics written by Greg Rucka with art by Salvador Larroca. Marvel characters Daredevil and Elektra are introduced to the Ultimate universe in the series in October 2001...

. Both were published by Marvel Comics

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 under the Ultimate Marvel

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 imprint. Devil's Due is written by Mike Carey, with pencils by Salvador Larroca

Salvador Larroca

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Plot summary

The mini-series begins shortly after its predecessor, with Matt Murdock

Daredevil (Marvel Comics)

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 and Elektra Natchios

Elektra (comics)

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 in their freshman year at Columbia University

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Elektra can only stand by as her father makes a deal with his cousins, Paul and Leonder, who are in organized crime

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, so that he can rebuild the family's laundromat. Paul and Leonder hope to launder the money earned from their criminal life, but their book keeper Kenneth Cullen has turned state's evidence. Elektra Natchios makes a bargain with her cousins, she will recover the evidence in return for her father's financial freedom. She fakes being a call girl so that she can recover the evidence, just in time to see Kenneth Cullen killed by Benjamin Poindexter (Ultimate Bullseye

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) who was sent by the Kingpin

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Reception

The first issue of Ultimate Elektra was ranked 16 in the August 2004 period with pre-order sales of 68,340. This was lower than its prequel with Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra

Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra

Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra is a four-issue comic book mini-series published by Marvel Comics written by Greg Rucka with art by Salvador Larroca. Marvel characters Daredevil and Elektra are introduced to the Ultimate universe in the series in October 2001...

's first issues sale of 77,050. The final issue #5 dropped in ranking to 35 with pre-order sales of 40,856.

Zeb Aslam from comixfan.com rated the series 3.5 out of 5. The writing is considered "pretty lackluster and average at best" and that the writer Carey is using an "accepted formula" without taking any risks. The artwork was praised however "some panels the figures appear distorted".

Collected editions

Ultimate Elektra Volume 1: Devil's Due

(ISBN 978-0785115045)

released 19 January 2005 collected all 5 issues

See also

• Elektra
• Daredevil
  Daredevil (Marvel Comics)
  Daredevil is a fictional character, a superhero in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Bill Everett, with an unspecified amount of input from Jack Kirby, and first appeared in Daredevil #1 .Living in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood...
  
  
• Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra
  Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra
  Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra is a four-issue comic book mini-series published by Marvel Comics written by Greg Rucka with art by Salvador Larroca. Marvel characters Daredevil and Elektra are introduced to the Ultimate universe in the series in October 2001...