This is a long shot, but I'm hoping someone will recognise this. I mentioned it back in 2010 (not in Book Search) but got no response.
When I was a kid, I found a stash of old science fiction comics left at our house by my older brother, probably published in the late sixties. One of the stories scared the bejebus out of me. It was an "invasion of the body-snatchers" type affair, where the main character travels in fear through a city, encountering people who then reveal themselves to have bulging black eyes with no whites or irises, and (I think, though I'm not sure) scaly skin. Eventually he finds, to his relief, a policeman he can tell, who then ... well, you guessed it.
That story for some reason stayed with me for years. More than ten years after reading it, I got the Dungeons and Dragons Wilderness Survival Guide, and in there was a picture of a couple of orcs looking down at some travellers from a cliff -- and the orcs had these solid black bulging eyes, exactly like the comic. I showed the picture to my younger brother, and without any prompting he said, "Just like that comic of Mike's". I didn't even know he'd read it, we'd never mentioned it to each other, and he couldn't have read it for ten years either.
It obviously made a big impression on both of us, so I'm hoping it did on someone else here of a certain age, who will be able to tell me what it was. But I don't think there's much point posting guesses as I don't think they'll be easy to check out. It was set in the US, and was probably therefore a US comic, but I can't be sure about that. Pretty sure it was B&W not colour, and was one short story in the comic, not the whole issue.
(ETA, it's not "Nada", the comic version of "Eight O'Clock in the Morning", which inspired Carpenter's film They Live!)
When I was a kid, I found a stash of old science fiction comics left at our house by my older brother, probably published in the late sixties. One of the stories scared the bejebus out of me. It was an "invasion of the body-snatchers" type affair, where the main character travels in fear through a city, encountering people who then reveal themselves to have bulging black eyes with no whites or irises, and (I think, though I'm not sure) scaly skin. Eventually he finds, to his relief, a policeman he can tell, who then ... well, you guessed it.
That story for some reason stayed with me for years. More than ten years after reading it, I got the Dungeons and Dragons Wilderness Survival Guide, and in there was a picture of a couple of orcs looking down at some travellers from a cliff -- and the orcs had these solid black bulging eyes, exactly like the comic. I showed the picture to my younger brother, and without any prompting he said, "Just like that comic of Mike's". I didn't even know he'd read it, we'd never mentioned it to each other, and he couldn't have read it for ten years either.
It obviously made a big impression on both of us, so I'm hoping it did on someone else here of a certain age, who will be able to tell me what it was. But I don't think there's much point posting guesses as I don't think they'll be easy to check out. It was set in the US, and was probably therefore a US comic, but I can't be sure about that. Pretty sure it was B&W not colour, and was one short story in the comic, not the whole issue.
(ETA, it's not "Nada", the comic version of "Eight O'Clock in the Morning", which inspired Carpenter's film They Live!)
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