Leonard Price | |
Aliases: | Doctor Leonard Price |
Continuity: | Evil Ernie |
Notability: | Supporting character |
Type: | Scientist |
Gender: | Male |
Race: | Human |
Location: | New Jersey |
Associations: | Mary Young |
Status: | Deceased |
Died: | 2000 |
First: | Evil Ernie Vol. 1 #1 |
Final: | Evil Ernie: War of the Dead #3 |
Leonard Price is a fictional scientist and a supporting character in the Evil Ernie comic book franchise. He appeared in the original 1991 series, beginning with issue #1, and he also appeared in the four-issue 1994 limited series Evil Ernie: Revenge by Chaos! Comics.
Biography[]
Leonard Price was a scientist and psycho-therapist who worked at the Clearview Mental Institute in New Jersey. One of his crowning achievements was a device called a Dream Probe, which could monitor, record and manipulate the dream states of it subjects. It was his belief that this device could suspend latent antisocial tendencies. One of his early test subjects was a young boy named Ernest Fairchild, who possessed the clairvoyant ability to predict future events. Price analyzed Fairchild shortly after the boy had brutally murdered his parents in a fit of rage. Fairchild grew older and was bounced around from one institution to the next.
He returned to Doctor Price's care after going on a killing spree in his home town. By this point, Price had been coordinating his research with a brilliant young doctor named Mary Young. Young had developed a Neurotech device, which was used to upgrade the Dream Probe. They decided to use it on Ernest Fairchild once again. However, upon activation, the device exploded, killing Fairchild. The mysterious goddess known as Lady Death, who had maintained a telepathic link to Fairchild by way of his powers, resurrected him as an undead ghoul and sent him back to the land of the living with only one meager task at hand: to kill every single person on the planet Earth. [1]
During the Psycho Plague, Leonard Price and Mary Young were recruited by General Martin Ramsey of the United States Army as consultants. However, they were being kept on guard against their will, and ultimately had to rebel against him. They turned the tables on Ramsey, leaving him trapped behind in the prison for fifteen days where he had to fight off various ghouls. When Ramsey finally escaped, he left Washington, D.C. and found the scientists. He apprehended them and kept them secure in his bunker, forcing them to watch as he engaged Evil Ernie in his Battletank-1 armor in New York City. [2]
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Leonard Price was created by writer Brian Pulido and artist Steven Hughes.
Appearances[]
- Evil Ernie 1
- Evil Ernie Vol 3 1 (Referenced only)
- Evil Ernie: The Resurrection 2
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References[]
- ↑ Evil Ernie #2; "The Cure That Kills"; (01-1992).
- ↑ Evil Ernie #0; "New Year's Evil"; (12-1993).