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#Acetategate rolls on Marvel Comics has issued the following statement to comic book retailers, regarding recent issues that saw Black Flag Comics sell their exclusive retailer variant covers from Marvel in amended forms, in an attempt to draw attention to their new publishing imprint Infinite Black Publishing Looks like Ultimate Fallout has indeed had fallout. As[...]

Sold as a pair. And being sold by someone who has renamed their eBay identity to read blackflergcomiks… eBay listing for Dum Dums #Acetategate still rolls on. Bleeding Cool covered the story of the Black Flag Comics Ultimate Fallout #4 acetate variant cover drama In which online comic store Black Flag created new heat for an exclusive Clayton Crain retailer variant comic from last year[...]

We noted that Rob Liefeld has liked previous Bleeding Cool articles on the #Acetategate affair Last night he posted to social media a longer take on the situation, as someone who creates a number of retailer-exclusive variant covers from Marvel Even as Black Flag has been selling Clayton Crain Deadpool Nerdy 30 acetate variant comics[...]

All sorts of people are curious regarding the latest Black Flag back-and-forth over #Acetategate It's become like a soap opera, with Bleeding Cool seeing traffic from all over the world as people want to keep up with the latest. And now, thanks to HartlessWeeb who streamed a visit to the Black Flag booth at FAN Expo[...]

With the Ghost Rider cover featuring Infinite Black Publishing character Zymotica, created by Clayton Crain. Because #Acetategate still rolls on. Bleeding Cool covered the story of the Black Flag Comics Ultimate Fallout #4 acetate variant cover drama In which online comic store Black Flag created new heat for an exclusive Clayton Crain retailer variant comic from last year by stapling a new acetate variant[...]

#Acetategate still rolls on Bleeding Cool covered the story of the Black Flag Comics Ultimate Fallout #4 acetate variant cover drama In which online comic store Black Flag created new heat for an exclusive Clayton Crain retailer variant comic from last year by stapling a new acetate variant cover on top, with patriotic imagers and the label[...]

Welcome to #Acetategate A quick recap Earlier in the week, Bleeding Cool covered the story of the Black Flag Comics Ultimate Fallout #4 acetate variant cover drama that played out at C2E2 A comic book retailer creating new heat for an exclusive Clayton Crain retailer variant comic from last year by stapling a new acetate variant cover on top, with patriotic[...]

Welcome to #Acetategate A quick recap Earlier in the week, Bleeding Cool covered the story of the Black Flag Comics Ultimate Fallout #4 acetate variant cover drama that played out at C2E2 A comic book retailer creating new heat for an exclusive Clayton Crain retailer variant comic from last year by stapling a new acetate variant cover on top, with patriotic[...]

Welcome to #Acetategate, one day before Boston Fan Expo kicks off A quick recap Earlier in the week, Bleeding Cool covered the story of the Black Flag Comics Ultimate Fallout #4 acetate variant cover drama that played out at C2E2 A comic book retailer creating new heat for an exclusive Clayton Crain retailer variant comic from last[...]

Welcome to #Acetategate A quick recap Earlier in the week, Bleeding Cool covered the story of the Black Flag Comics Ultimate Fallout #4 acetate variant cover drama that played out at C2E2 A comic book retailer creating new heat for an exclusive Clayton Crain retailer variant comic from last year by stapling a new acetate variant cover[...]

If anyone knows any more, please, get in touch. Can we call this Acetategate? Yesterday, Bleeding Cool covered the story of the Black Flag Comics Ultimate Fallout #4 acetate variant cover drama that played out at C2E2 A comic book retailer creating new heat for an exclusive retailer variant comic from last year by stapling a[...]

It's Black Flag Ultimate Fallout #4 Acetate C2E2 drama time. But let's step back a little. A comic book store can get an exclusive-to-them retailer cover