Sci-fi comic-paper story from probably 1960s, body-snatchers theme

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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!)
 
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There were a lot of comics like that...Creepy and Eerie in particular.
Could it be one of those?
 
I believe this particular story was in B&W, so I imagine the rest of it was. My memory is of rough, cheap-feeling paper.
 
The story was set in the US (I remember the police officer's cap). Also, I don't think the UK comic industry had developed beyond stuff for children at that date. So I'm fairly confident it was a US publication.
 
If it was Black and White in a UK comic it might well have been an Alan Class publication. For decades he republished American comics from all sorts of sources, including Early Marvels, on really cheap paper. A lot of the stories were of the Twist in the Tail horror / sf vein. It might be worth looking through the Alan Class books on the Grand Comic Book Database here- GCD - and seeing if a cover pops out.

A bit of a long shot and a bit of a slog, but you might strike lucky. Many books (but not all) have wee synopses of the stories too EG
" An explorer encounters sentient, extraterrestrial trees in Asian mountains. They plan to spread their pollen all over the Earth, but they are fortuitously destroyed by a volcano."

So you could try doing a site search for eyes, invasion, alien, or whatever?
 

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