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3''The Eye Sees'' is a {{Superhero}} comic from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks, written by Frank Thomas and published by Centaur Publications in ''Keen Detective Funnies'' #16-24 and ''Detective Eye'' #1-2. It concerned a mysterious eye-shaped being who seeks bring justice to the entire world with his omnipotence.
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6* ArchEnemy: The Eye has Rigonie, a crime boss who was his only recurring foe.
7* BadBoss: Ganza poisons his men so he doesn't have to split the profits.
8* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Carter and Koba, two assassins sent to kill a businessman, are flung out of their plane by the Eye.]]
9* EldritchAbomination: The Eye is a heroic example, since he's a burning floating eyeball who seeks to use his omnipotence to bring justice to the world, and to whom space and time mean nothing.
10* EventTitle
11* FrameUp: Ganza's plan is toAmerican consulate with the ambassador, his daughter and anybody else who happens to be inside, and make it look like an air raid did it Al America would get involved in a small nation's civil war and make it worse.
12* GraveRobbing: The Eye encounters a gang running this racket in ''Keen Detective Funnies'' #24.
13* GreatEscape: The Eye thwarts a prison break in ''Keen Detective Funnies'' #22.
14* HeKnowsTooMuch: The baddies of ''Keen Detective Funnies'' #19 try to blow up the United States Congress to destroy records of their crimes.
15* InheritanceMurder: The BigBad of ''Keen Detective Funnies'' #17 hired some mobsters to off her uncle the day before he was to write her out of the will.
16* ProfessionalKiller: Ganza is a mercenary who tasked to make a civil war worse.
17* PsychoForHire: Ganza, from issue 18, is a mercenary willing to make a nation's civil war worse for money and is perfectly happy to kill his own men just so he doesn't have to split the profits.
18* ResignationsNotAccepted: The baddies in ''Keen Detective Funnies'' #23 are a bunch of mobsters bumping off anybody who leaves the group.
19* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The first issue has the Eye taking it upon himself to avenge the theft of a company.
20* RuthlessModernPirates: The villains of ''Detective Eye'' #2 are a gang of river pirates raiding a small town.
21* TheSociopath: Ganza, a mercenary who's hired to make a civil war worse for money, and poisons his own men so he doesn't have to share.
22* StarterVillain: Islam Herat, a CorruptCorporateExecutive who stole a giant Middle Eastern trade empire and is arrested by issue's end.
23* WarForFunAndProfit: The baddies of ''Keen Detective Funnies'' #18 are terrorists hired to bomb an American consulate in order to make a war worse.

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