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{{Short description|Comic series}}
{{Infobox comic book title  <!--Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics-->
| image               = Ultimate Elektra cover - number 1.jpg
| caption             = Cover to Ultimate Elektra #1.  Art by [[Salvador Larroca]].
| schedule            = Monthly
| limited             = y
| publisher           = [[Marvel Comics]]
| date                = August - December [[2004 in comics|2004]]
| issues              = 5
| main_char_team      = [[Elektra (character)|Elektra Natchios]]<br />[[Daredevil (Marvel Comics character)|Matt Murdock]]<br />[[Foggy Nelson]]<br />[[Bullseye (Marvel Comics)|Benjamin Poindexter]]
| writers             = [[Mike Carey (British writer)|Mike Carey]]
| artists             = [[Salvador Larroca]]
| pencillers          =
| inkers              =
| colorists           =
| creative_team_month =
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| creators            =
| TPB                 = Devil's Due
| ISBN                = 978-0-7851-1504-5
| subcat              = Marvel Comics
| sort                = Ultimate Elektra
| addpubcat1          = Ultimate Marvel titles
| addpubcat2          = Daredevil (Marvel Comics) titles
}}

'''''Ultimate Elektra''''' is a five-issue [[comic book]] [[Limited series (comics)|limited series]], which serves as a follow-up to ''[[Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra]]''. Both were published by [[Marvel Comics]] under the [[Ultimate Marvel]] imprint. ''Devil's Due'' is written by [[Mike Carey (British writer)|Mike Carey]], with pencils by [[Salvador Larroca]].

==Plot summary==
The mini-series begins shortly after its predecessor, with [[Daredevil (Marvel Comics character)|Matt Murdock]] and [[Elektra (character)|Elektra Natchios]] in their freshman year at [[Columbia University]].

Elektra can only stand by as her father makes a deal with his cousins, Paul and Leonder, who are in organized crime, 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 ([[Bullseye (Marvel Comics)|Bullseye]]), who was sent by the [[Kingpin (character)|Kingpin]].

==Reception==
The first issue of ''Ultimate Elektra'' was ranked 16 in the August 2004 period with pre-order sales of 68,340.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/5713.html| title=Top 300 Comics--August 2004| publisher=icv2.com| access-date=2008-07-09}}</ref> This was lower than its prequel with [[Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra]]'s first issues sale of 77,050.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/1988.html| title=Top 300 Comics--November 2002| publisher=icv2.com| access-date=2008-07-09}}</ref> The final issue #5 dropped in ranking to 35 with pre-order sales of 40,856.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/6291.html| title=Top 300 Comics--December 2004| publisher=icv2.com| access-date=2008-07-09}}</ref>

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 "in some panels the figures appear distorted".<ref>{{cite web | last = Aslam | first = Zeb | url=http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?p=885198 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20040911140408/http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?p=885198 | url-status=usurped | archive-date=September 11, 2004 | title=Ultimate Elektra #1 Review | publisher=comixfan.com | access-date=2008-07-21}}</ref>

== List of issues ==

# {{Cite comic |date=August, 2004 |title=Ultimate Elektra |story=Devil's Due: Part 1 |issue=1 |publisher=Marvel Comics |writer=Carey, M. |penciller=Larroca, S. |inker=Crimelab Studios |colorist=Liquid's Aron Lusen |letterer=[[Chris Eliopoulos|Eliopoulos, C.]] |editor=[[Ralph Macchio|Macchio, R.]]}}
# {{Cite comic |date=September, 2004 |title=Ultimate Elektra |story=Devil's Due: Part 2 |issue=2 |publisher=Marvel Comics |writer=Carey, M. |penciller=Larroca, S. |inker=Crimelab Studios |colorist=Liquid's Aron Lusen |letterer=Eliopoulos, C. |editor=Macchio, R.}}
# {{Cite comic |date=October, 2004 |title=Ultimate Elektra |story=Devil's Due: Part 3 |issue=3 |publisher=Marvel Comics |writer=Carey, M. |penciller=Larroca, S. |inker=Crimelab Studios |colorist=Liquid's Aron Lusen |letterer=Eliopoulos, C. |editor=Macchio, R.}}
# {{Cite comic |date=November, 2004 |title=Ultimate Elektra |story=Devil's Due: Part 4 |issue=4 |publisher=Marvel Comics |writer=Carey, M. |penciller=Larroca, S. |inker=Crimelab Studios |colorist=Liquid's Aron Lusen |letterer=Eliopoulos, C. |editor=Macchio, R.}}
# {{Cite comic |date=December, 2004 |title=Ultimate Elektra |story=Devil's Due: Part 5 |issue=5 |publisher=Marvel Comics |writer=Carey, M. |penciller=Larroca, S. |inker=Crimelab Studios |colorist=Liquid's Aron Lusen |letterer=Eliopoulos, C. |editor=Macchio, R.}}

==Collected editions==
{|
|''Ultimate Elektra Volume 1: Devil's Due''
|({{ISBN|978-0785115045}})
|released 19 January 2005 collected all 5 issues
|}

==See also==
* ''[[Elektra (character)#Ultimate Marvel|Elektra]]''
* ''[[Daredevil (Marvel Comics series)|Daredevil]]''
* ''[[Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra]]''

==References==
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{{Daredevil}}
{{Ultimate Marvel}}

[[Category:2004 comics debuts|Ultimate Elektra]]
[[Category:Ultimate Marvel titles|Elektra, Ultimate]]
[[Category:Comics set in New York City]]


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