Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Is the Hottest Ticket at Comic-Con

Avengers spinoff draws an SRO crowd of Whedon, Gregg fanboys

Despite a notably toned-down presence among Disney-owned properties at Comic-Con, there was no hotter ticket than the 90-minute panel for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., ABC’s much anticipated fall drama series. If you want to know the premiere date, you have only to ask one of the several thousand fans in the standing-room-only crowd at the convention’s biggest venue: Jeph Loeb, head of television for Marvel Entertainment (and a comic book writer himself), emerged to cheers in a “Coulson Lives” T-shirt, then split the audience into thirds and had them compete for volume screaming “September!” “24!” “On ABC!”

Loeb played the part of hype man for every actor on the show, a roster that includes How I Met Your Mother’s Cobie Smulders, reprising her role in the Avengers film; Chloe Bennet as the superhero-obsessed hacker Skye; and Brett Dalton as the gruff black-ops agent Grant Ward.

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