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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

STERANKO! When Steranko withdrew a story he'd already been paid for, he had to make good with something new. The result: a 7-page story in OUR LOVE STORY #5 (Marvel, June 1970), possibly the best-drawn Romance story in comics...! Here's the splash page, digitally restored...

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

ATLAS COMICS LIBRARY Vol. 7: GIRL COMICS has a 2026 EISNER AWARD NOMINATION! We're in the "Best Archival Collection/Project - Comic Books" category, with stiff competition from AKIRA, SCREAM and WEIRD SCIENCE, amongst others -- but if you're not in it, you can't win it!

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The rumours are TRUE -- I have a Patreon! Why not come join me...? www.patreon.com/post...

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

FIRESTORM! Digitally restored house ad trumpeting the explosive arrival of Ronnie Raymond and Professor Stein's nuclear-powered alter ego from late 1977. Writer Conway was inspired to attempt to recapture the spirit of fun that ran through early Spider-Man comics.

Comparing house ad for DC's Firestorm before and after restoration

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

My comp copy of ATLAS CREATOR COLLECTION No. 3: BILL EVERETT has arrived, featuring a curated selection of the best of Everett's output for Atlas Comics in the 1950s, meticulously restored by me and the gang at Fantagraphics...

Covers of the Atlas Creator Collection No.3: Bill Everett

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

ZORRO! ALEX TOTH! A digitally restored page from Toth's classic ZORRO strip, originally published by Dell Comics circa 1960 -- every page a masterclass in visual storytelling.

Digitally restored ZORRO page by Alex Toth

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

OK Comics is far, far more than just OK -- it's a brilliant comic shop worthy of your attention and patronage... Go check it out!

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Taylor Talks Comics! ☕️👨🏻‍💻 @taylortalkscomics.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The latest Atlas Artist Edition is out from @fantagraphics.bsky.social! This volume is a 400+ page tome of AL WILLIAMSON artwork! Lovingly restored by @allanharvey.bsky.social Compiled and edited by Dr Michael Vassallo. Check out my video: youtu.be/9jclS74LPiM?...

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Out now -- ATLAS ARTIST EDITION No. 2: AL WILLIAMSON, featuring EVERY story Williamson drew for Atlas in the 1950s, restored and looking better than ever in this huge, oversize tome. Published by @fantagraphics.bsky.social

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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Do YOU have a special #DoctorWho fan in your life? Do YOU want to give them a fun yet inexpensive Christmas gift? Well, look no further! I have bunches of Doctor Who art prints for sale here! (All RPs very appreciated!) 😀🎄❄️⛄ www.ebay.co.uk/usr/scotgra-57

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Digitally restored page from MEN'S ADVENTURES #21 (May 1953) as drawn by GIL EVANS, an artist I profess to know little about - but isn't he great?! I love the time-lapse sequence here as the shot man falls to the floor. From the forthcoming SHIVER AS YOU READ, Vol. 6 of the Atlas Comics Library.

Restored page of a story from Men's Adventures issue 25, drawn by Gil Evans

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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Thunderbirds art by the legendary Mike Noble. Richard Sheaf has a gallery of his Thunderbirds art here boysadventurecomics.blogspot.com/2024/11/mike...

Thunderbirds art by the legendary Mike Noble. Richard Sheaf has a gallery of his Thunderbirds art here https://boysadventurecomics.blogspot.com/2024/11/mike-noble-thunderbirds.html

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

ALEX TOTH! A digitally restored page from Dell Comics' adaptation of the movie THE LAND UNKNOWN, in which a naval group discovers dinosaurs still roam in the unexpectedly warm climes of the Antarctic. The comic was very influential on several artists that rose to fame over the following decades...

Page from THE LAND UNKNOWN comics adaptation by Alex Toth

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Joel Meadows @joelmeadows.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

With payday coming this week, it’s the perfect time to support a Sherlock Holmes original graphic novel. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

THE TITANS! Digitally restored cover to the debut issue from October 1975 - an image guaranteed to give me a Proustian rush, instantly transporting me back to being the 8-year-old I was when first I bought this great Marvel UK comic. Art by Keith Pollard and Frank Giacoia.

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Richard 'Boys Adventure comics blog' Sheaf @richardandsheaf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Brian Bolland will be signing books at @goshcomics.bsky.social today - have fun if you're going! boysadventurecomics.blogspot.com/2024/11/bria...

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Brian Bolland signs at Gosh!

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Joel Meadows @joelmeadows.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Going live tomorrow but people can still sign up for the prelaunch of Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders The Gene Genie Vol.2 www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...

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Coming soon: Sherlock Holmes And The Empire Builders The Gene Genie

The second volume of an original Sherlock Holmes graphic novel with Holmes as people have never seen him before

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Lew Stringer @lewstringer.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

A reminder that The Dandy Annual 2025 is in the shops now. 112 pages of all new material including 8 pages from me.

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Joel Meadows @joelmeadows.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Sherlock Holmes and the Empire Builders vol.2 is on prelaunch on kickstarter and we are looking to get to 200 followers before we launch www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...

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Coming soon: Sherlock Holmes And The Empire Builders The Gene Genie

The second volume of an original Sherlock Holmes graphic novel with Holmes as people have never seen him before

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

WAR...! My comp copy of @fantagraphics.bsky.social ATLAS COMICS LIBRARY, Vol 4 has arrived. This one reprints the first 8 issues of WAR COMICS (1951), featuring art by the likes of Russ Heath, Gene Colan, Joe Maneely and Allen Bellman, digitally restored to look better than ever! Out soon!

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

48 years ago this week... CAPTAIN BRITAIN! After several years reprinting its US comics Marvel decided to produce new material especially for the UK market. Chris Claremont, Herb Trimpe and Larry Lieber delivered the goods with the Arthurian-themed British hero's debut...

Captain Britain #1 cover before and after restoration

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

THE SHADOW! FRANK ROBBINS! Perhaps less suited for superheroes, Robbins was a great fit for the famed pulp character on 4 issues of DC's mid-1970s series. Here's the splash from issue #8 (Dec '74-Jan '75). A reprint of the whole series would be welcome! Digitally restored.

Comparison of Frank Robbins drawn SHADOW page before/after restoration

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

BATMAN! FRANK ROBBINS! While opinion on Robbins's comics art is divided, I love it! He was mostly a writer during his stint at DC, but drew the occasional job for them such as this great splash page from DETECTIVE COMICS #426 (Aug 1972). Digitally restored.

Comparison of Frank Robbins drawn Batman splash page before and after restoration

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Fred McNamara - ALL SECTIONS ALPHA is out NOW! 🌔 @commandermac.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

Do you wish there was a happy middle ground between intelligent, in-depth historical accounts of Gerry Anderson's sci-fi/puppet worlds and brilliantly researched comics journalism? Well... so do I. Until then, you might consider subscribing to Sequential 21? sequential21.net/contact-21/

Front cover of TV Century 21 #1 from January 1965

Front cover of Countdown #1 from February 1971.

Front cover for The New Thunderbirds #67 (rebranded from Thunderbirds the Comic) from May 1994.

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

Restoration work on a page from MEN'S ADVENTURES #25 (Jan 1954), drawn by Joe Sinnott. Intended for the forthcoming ATLAS COMICS LIBRARY Vol. 6: SHIVER AS YOU READ, from @fantagraphics.bsky.social

Example of the digital restoration work on a 1954 comic page drawn by Joe Sinnott

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Early appearances of The Incredible Hulk in UK comics weren't always strictly on-brand...

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

Captains Britain and America by the great JACK KIRBY on what would have been his 107th birthday -- The King, now and forever...! Digitally restored.

Art by Jack Kirby of Captain Britain and Captain America

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

JOE MANEELY! A sneak peek at restoration work for the forthcoming ATLAS COMICS LIBRARY, Vol 6: SHIVER AS YOU READ from Fantagraphics, which collects 1950s pre-Code horror comics from Atlas. This Maneely page was originally published in MEN'S ADVENTURE #24 (Nov 1953)...

Comparison of Joe Maneely page before and after restoration

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

Mail call...! IN THE DAYS OF THE ROCKETS, the 3rd volume in @fantagraphics.bsky.social ATLAS COMICS LIBRARY. Reprints 1950s SPACE SQUADRON and SPACEMAN comics for 350 pages of sci-fi fun.Artists include Joe Maneely, Mike Sekowsky, George Tuska, John Romita and Allen Bellman. Out next month!

Cover to In the Days of the Rockets collection

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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · 11/07/2024

And now the biggest question of all... Who will be our ONE HUNDREDTH BACKER?!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/big...

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 11/07/2024

AL WILLIAMSON! A sample of the digital restoration to be found in @fantagraphics.bsky.social forthcoming ATLAS ARTIST EDITION Vol 2: AL WILLIAMSON, which reprints every story that Al drew for Atlas in the 1950s - a massive 450 page tome! Splash from TWO-GUN KID #25 (Sept 1955)...

A comparison of Al Williamson comic art before and after restoration

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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · 11/07/2024

The final countdown for BIG SHOULDERS has begun! Can we hit our 110% funding goal and get a variant cover from ROGER LANGRIDGE? You can help make it happen! (pls RT!) @hotelfred.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/big...

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

Mail call...! the second humongous CAROL DAY collection: JACK SLINGSBY, by David Wright. I'll have to wait until my new forklift is delivered to be able to lift it...!

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

Due in the shops soon: ATLAS COMICS LIBRARY Vol 2: VENUS. This splendid hardcover from @fantagraphics.bsky.social collects the second half of Atlas's VENUS run from the early-1950s, issues 10-19, which includes all of the stories by BILL EVERETT. Here's my restoration of the cover to #19 (Apr 1952).

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

So this is happening... the second ATLAS ARTIST EDITION reprints ALL of the strips done by AL WILLIAMSON for Atlas Comics in the 1950s, digitally restored by me and @fantagraphics.bsky.social. Available for pre-order now -- this is the big one folks!

The provisional cover to ATLAS ARTIST EDITION No.2: AL WILLIAMSON

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Mega City Book Club @megacitybookclub.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

Colin Taylor helps me tick another British comic as we cover the fantastic Phoenix on the book club. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Sneak preview of restoration work carried out for a forthcoming ATLAS COMICS LIBRARY collection from @fantagraphics.bsky.social Art by the great JOE MANEELY from SPEED CARTER #1 (Sept 1953)...

Comparison of original and restored versions of a 1953 SPEED CARTER page drawn by Joe Maneely

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Out now... THE CRIMSON SEA, a handsome hardcover tome collecting four war stories drawn by the legendary HUGO PRATT that originally appeared in 1960s issues of WAR PICTURE LIBRARY. Digital art restoration by me. Published by The Treasury of British Comics.

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

The first ATLAS ARTIST EDITION from @fantagraphics.bsky.social is out now, focusing on the great JOE MANEELY! This huge hardcover collects the cream of his work for ATLAS in the 1950s across a variety of genres. Digitally Restored to look better than ever.

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Mega City Book Club @megacitybookclub.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

This is my grail page pick from Requiem vampire knight by Pat Mills and Olivier Ledroit. Listen to my chat with Troy Martin in episode 240 of the book club

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ComicScene @comicscene.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Because you asked for it - no more faffing around from one site and page to another! Free comics, magazines, offers and premium content from the home page with a ComicScene VIP subscription for only £2 a month. comicscene.org/2023/11/10/s...

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

ATLAS COMICS LIBRARY Vol. 1: ADVENTURES INTO TERROR (Vol. 1) reprints the first 8 issues of the Atlas Comics horror title from the early 1950s, digitally restored to look as good as new. Published by @fantagraphics.bsky.social The book is available now.

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Allan Harvey Restoration @allanharvey.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Mail call...! The wonderful SPACE: 1999 hardcover collecting all the strips from 1970s LOOK-IN comic. Great art by John M Burns and Mike Noble, amongst others.

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James Swallow @jmswallow.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Here's me chatting with @quickbookreviews.bsky.social's Philippa about my new thriller novel Dark Horizon from Welbeck Publishing! shows.acast.com/quick-book-r...

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