Marvel puts editor who pretended to be Japanese in charge of Asia originals

The former editor-in-chief admitted in 2017 that he had posed as a Japanese creator while writing comics under a fabricated identity.

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Marvel is sending former Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski to Japan to oversee original graphic fiction and manga from Asia, nearly nine years after he admitted presenting himself as a Japanese writer under the name “Akira Yoshida.”

Cebulski, who is white, will become Marvel’s editor of Asia Originals as Stephen Wacker succeeds…