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Dr. Giggles                                           Comics Lot
The Dark Horse Comics Movie Adaptation of the 1992 Horror Movie… Dr. Giggles.
Writer: Steven Grant
Artist: Kent Burles
Inker: Alan J. Burrows
Colorist: Eric Vincent
Letterer: Bill Spicer
Editors: Randy Stradley & Jennie Bricker
All Covers by: Doug Mahnke

Dr. Giggles is a 1992 American slasher film directed by Manny Coto, starring Larry Drake as Evan Rendell Jr., the eponymous Dr. Giggles, and Holly Marie Combs as Jennifer Campbell. The film co-stars Cliff DeYoung and Glenn Quinn. It was released on October 23, 1992.

Dr. Giggles is the blood-strewn adaptation of the movie by the same name. It all takes place in the town of Moorehigh, where in 1941, the town doctor went crazy and embarked on a killing spree. Dr. Rendell brutally slew person after person. Four of the bodies were never even recovered. Town legend has it that they were hidden in the walls of his now-abandoned house. Fifty years later, it seems that someone new is playing doctor. An escapee from a mental ward has decided to carry on Rendell’s deadly legacy, performing ghastly operations on the unwilling townsfolk.

Story/Spoilers (featuring the full Dr. Giggles 1992 Movie Synopsis for nostalgic remembrance)

In the town of Moorehigh in 1957, the patients of Dr. Evan Rendell keep disappearing. The townspeople found out the father and son duo had been ripping out the patients’ hearts – in an attempt to resurrect the doctor’s dead wife. The townspeople called the police, resulting in Dr. Rendell being shot to death in a police shooting. His son, Evan Jr., disappeared. In 1992 (thirty-five years later), the adult Evan Jr. (now nicknamed “Dr. Giggles” for his hideous giggle and insatiable obsession to follow in his father’s footsteps) escapes from a mental asylum, killing everyone in his path. In Moorehigh, 19-year-old Jennifer Campbell, her boyfriend Max Anderson, and their friends are planning their summer break. Jennifer, already upset by family trouble, is further distressed from having a heart condition and being forced to wear a heart monitor. Dr. Giggles returns to his childhood home, goes through Evan Sr.’s files, and gathers a list of names. He begins stalking and killing several residents, including Jennifer’s friends. After the party, Jennifer becomes fed up with her heart monitor and dumps it in a fish tank. Jennifer’s father finds it and leaves to look for her. Dr. Giggles shows up and kills his girlfriend (Jennifer’s prospective stepmother). Jennifer returns to the party and sees Max kissing another girl. Distraught, she runs into the house of mirrors. Dr. Giggles notices Jennifer has the same heart condition as his mother and goes after her. He kills the girl Max was kissing, but Jennifer sees him coming and escapes. Officers Magruder and Reitz find her and take her to the police station. Officer Magruder explains to Reitz how Evan Jr. escaped. He was on guard duty at the morgue housing the bodies of Dr. Rendell and his wife. Investigating a giggle, he witnessed Evan Jr. cutting his way out of his mother’s body with a scalpel. He realized that Rendell had cut open his wife’s body, stuffed his son in and sewn it shut. Upon being threatened by Evan Jr., Magruder passed out from shock. When he woke up, Rendell’s wife’s corpse had been re-sewn, and all traces of the event at the morgue had been wiped clean. Dr. Giggles makes his way to Jennifer’s house and attacks her father. Officer Magruder goes to investigate Jennifer’s house and finds her father there, lying in a pool of blood. Dr. Giggles mortally wounds Magruder who, recognizing Evan Jr., shoots and wounds him before dying. Reitz arrives soon after, finding his partner dead and Jennifer’s father wounded but alive. Meanwhile, Dr. Giggles returns to his hideout, performing surgery on himself to remove the bullet. He kidnaps Jennifer and tells her his plan to replace her “broken” heart with one he took from her friends. Reitz and Max arrive. While Reitz distracts Dr. Giggles, Max and Jennifer escape. Dr. Giggles kills Reitz, but his father’s house explodes and collapses on him. At the hospital, Jennifer learns that the events of the evening have damaged her heart, requiring immediate surgery. While she is being prepped, Dr. Giggles reappears and cuts a bloody path through the hospital staff. He chases her to a janitor’s closet. Jennifer ambushes and finally kills Dr. Giggles with his own instruments. Dr. Giggles breaks the fourth wall, staring at the camera and weakly asking, “Is…there a…doctor in the house?” before he collapses and dies. Recovering in the hospital, Jennifer is visited by Max and her father.

Comics lot contains: Dr. Giggles (1992) Issues #1-2.  Dark Horse Comics

Comics are bagged and boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

First Printings
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Publication Date: 1992
Format per comic: FC, 32 pages, Comic, 10.25″ x 6.65″
UPC: None Stated

Collectible Entertainment note: Comics #1,2 are in Fine to Fine + condition.  Nice Set!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Dr. Giggles, Horror, and/or Movie Adaptation collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Recommended.

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