Eye of Agamotto

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Eye of Agamotto
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Strange Tales #115 (December 1963)
Created by	Stan Lee, Steve Ditko
In story information
Type	Mystic item/artifact
Element of stories featuring	Doctor Strange[1]

The Eye of Agamotto (/æɡəˈmɒtoʊ/) is a fictional, mystical item appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The item appears in publications that feature Doctor Strange. The Eye of Agamotto and Agamotto in his caterpillar form also appeared in the Gold Key Dark Shadows comic book, Collinwood Possessed!.^[2] The Eye of Agamotto is the name commonly given to the amulet Strange wears on his chest, though the Eye actually resides within the amulet and is released from time to time.

Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, it first appeared in "The Origin of Dr. Strange", an eight-page story in Strange Tales #115 (December 1963).^[3] In designing the Eye, Ditko drew inspiration from the real world charm The All Seeing Eye of the Buddha, known among Buddhists as The Amulet of Snail Martyrs, a Nepali symbol meant to protect its wearer against evil.^[4][5]

The Eye of Agamotto appears in several forms of Marvel-related media, such as the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with its first appearance in Doctor Strange, in which it contains the Time Stone, one of the fictional universe's Infinity Stones.