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An Eye for an Eye, Angelo Torres, EC Comics, EC Comics reprints, Gemstone, Incredible Science Fiction, Lizard Men
Here it is, Martians: the complete EC Comics story “An Eye for an Eye” by Angelo Torres. You can skip the exposition and go straight for the story below, but we would like a chance to set the record straight. Why? Because we noticed that one of the top-ten searches leading people to Mars in 2011 was “EC Comics Eye for an Eye.” So, enjoying a research challenge, we set out to find it for you.
And no wonder you Martians are having a hard time finding it! Comics Alliance mistakenly identified it as the “story about a black astronaut.” Wrong! That story is “Judgment Day.” Our friends at Wikipedia currently say the story was first rejected, but don’t give you any clue where it was actually printed. They mysteriously say “1971” — but in what book? [2023 Update: Sharon dropped by to inform us that “1971” refers to the reprint collection EC Horror Comics of the 1950s.] Next up, The Horrors of It All has a cool story from 1952 by the same name — but it’s not this one! PencilInk earns big props for identifying the actual publication — but even they got it wrong until a savvy commenter spoke up!
So here’s the real deal: “An Eye for an Eye” was rejected for publication in Incredible Science Fiction #33 in 1956. Instead, that magazine contained “Judgment Day.” When Gemstone reprinted the issue in 1995 as Incredible Science Fiction #11, they restored “An Eye for an Eye” to the magazine.
Got all that? Is your brain reeling? Great. Now dig in to the story you’ve been searching for: “An Eye for an Eye” by Angelo Torres! It’s truly awesome!
Collector’s Guide: From Incredible Science Fiction #11; Gemstone, 1995 (EC Comics reprint).
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Thank you so much! I’ve been looking for this for a while now.
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Glad you found it, Thomas! It’s a classic, and we found the inexpensive reprint was well worth adding to our collection. Enjoy!
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The “1971” refers to the collection “EC Horror Library of the 1950’s” aka “Horror Comics of the 1950s” published in 1971. This book included Torres’s An Eye for an Eye story.
https://www.comics.org/issue/23929/
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Thank you for solving that mystery for us! I’ve updated the post with that information.
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LOL, I seem to have forgotten to include my name in my Sept. 2023 comment, I’m Sharon, long-time reader of your excellent, informative blog (can’t believe I never saw this entry ’til now).
The EC Horror Comics 1950s book is often available on eBay and Amazon, with a price starting in the $100s and up.
Anyway, glad to have been of some help 🙂 even if it came over a decade later.
-Sharon (this time I remembered)
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No apology necessary, Sharon! Thank you! I love getting updates and corrections even if they arrive years after the original post. They often clear up things I have been wondering about for ages, or turn into collaborative posts like the one about the first appearance of Spider-man’s black costume — which got people emailing me updates and scans for several years until I think we finally reached the truth 🙂 Your solving a long-standing gap in my research is the kind of comic-book obsession we absolutely celebrate here!
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