During Infinate Crisis, Scott (the OGL) got hit in the zeta beam backwash along wth a lot of other heroes. When the beam finaly finished the teleport, it had mixed and maimed several characters--Cyborg and Firestorm were fused, Hawk Girl became a giant while Bumblebee was permanently shrunk, Red Tornado was destroyed and parts of his body were fused in Herald (now Vox) and bot Alan and Adam Strange lost their eyes, but one of Adam's ended up as part of Alan Scott (there's a great scene in 52 where Alan says that he lost an eye and the one he has doesn't even belong to him and then it shows Adam Strange with two empty sockets. As far as I know, Alan still has the patch (which looked great when he was in Checkmate...like Nick Fury but with starheart green flame powers) though when's he's Lantern he wears the domino mask over it. I wonder why he doesn't just give himself a green flame eye.

HA HA! Eyepatch...

As far as that Kirby Strange Tales cover...uh, I don't quite get it or think it's that great. We're looking at a Hydra goon, but from the perspective of another Hydra goon, who's looking at a monitor showing Nick Fury, er, somewhere else. Odd.

In the category of lame eyepatched characters, please include Erg the Morlock, who inexplicably became a semi-featured character in the monumentally awful series The 198.

Xander?! XAaaaaaanndeeeeeer?!

Xander only rocks an eyepatch because Fury rocked an eyepatch before him.

Yes, Fury is so bad ass that he inspires other ocularly challenged heroes to sport the patch. He's that awesome.

During his descent into "darkness" (he had seemingly destroyed all his talismans of power in order to prevent them from falling into the hands of an evil, other-worldly sorcerer. In so doing, he broke the bonds that kept many ancient evils from invading the Earth again.

So, weakened, unable to use "white" magic, he was being taught by the ANCIENT ONE's enemy; KALUU in the ways of "black" magic in order to combat these ancient evils (using "fire" to fight "fire").

During one such quest, DOCTOR STRANGE had his eye blown out by a mystical, ancient evil entity, and had to wear an eyepatch (composed of inky black magic).

He wore the eyepatch for quite some time, until, long after he had come back to the side of "light" again, was given a "new" eye, by AGAMOTTO (who was secretly safekeeping all the old "destroyed" talismans) to replace his lost one.

The gross part is that the eye was taken FROM his old foe; SILVER DAGGER (who was existing, as a "guest" of AGAMOTTO in his realm of unreality).

SILVER DAGGER supposedly gave up the eye for a gift to STRANGE as a way of redeeming himself.

Turns out he was really just making room in his head to place one of the EYES of AGAMOTTO in there to use for evil purposes.

(OH, and he later wanted his OLD eye back from STRANGE and wanted STRANGE dead.)

SO, since that didn't work out for him, SILVER DAGGER was the eyepatched one from then on.

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There ya have it.

Hey!
I'm sure I can work a DOCTOR STRANGE tale into just about any topic.

Ever hear how he was a friend of the artist MOEBIUS?

Ah... a "Strange" tale for another day.

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