I've recently started reading my way through the Ultimate Universe via the Hardcovers. Just finished USM 3 (the one with the Venom arc), and what I've found is a whole bunch of references to Reed Richards (including him being mentioned on the 10 year old video of Peters parents, plus a wing of...
Hmmm, I guess the timing doesn't really work out, but that statement made me think of this from the Wiki about Ultimate Marvel:
"In the early days of the imprint, Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada mentioned that Marvel had already published one series set in the Ultimate Universe prior to...