No Marvel Studios At Comic-Con International This Year?

Panels and presentations by Marvel Studios are among the highlights at Comic-Con International almost every year. The key word there being “almost.” The company sat out San Diego a few years ago, and it might be doing the same thing this summer.

The first word of Marvel skipping SDCC came from Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn. When asked on Facebook if he’d be in attendance, he gave this response (image via ScreenCrush):

It would be an interesting but not unprecedented move for Marvel, which also chose not to have a panel in 2011 — and that was the summer prior to the release of The Avengers. The schedule of Marvel Cinematic Universe movies is similar in 2015 to that year, in the sense that Avengers: Age of Ultron will already be out, Ant-Man will be releasing right after Comic-Con, and the next MCU film isn’t until the following May.

That means as /Film suggests, New York Comic-Con might be a more logical place to go all out promoting Captain America: Civil War, since that show takes place in the fall. ScreenCrush also throws in D23, held in August, as a possibility.

We could also be seeing Marvel Studios becoming the Apple of its space, in the sense that Apple routinely passes on consumer electronics trade shows in favor of holding its own events. It does it because it can, and even though the thought of Comic-Con without Marvel Studios is a strange one, it appears to be something fans might have to accept for 2015.

No worries, though, as there are plenty of non-Marvel super hero movies in the Hollywood pipeline as well, and I’d bet everything I own that some of them will be happy to accept a bigger share of the spotlight in San Diego this July.

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