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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published September-October 1973
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Joe Orlando
Notes No ads.

Cover Details - "The New Magazine of Weird Humor!"

Characters "Arms" Armstrong
Genre Humor
Pencils Basil Wolverton (Signed); Sergio Aragones (Marginals)
Inks Basil Wolverton (Signed); Sergio Aragones (Marginals)
Notes Cover art is smaller version of back cover. No ads.
Reprinted in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #63; in Millennium Edition: Plop! 1 (DC, 2000 series) #nn (July 2000)

1 page credits "Table of Plop-Tents"

Genre Humor
Pencils Sergio Aragones (Signed)
Inks Sergio Aragones (Signed)
Notes Contents page with Sergio Aragones art filling in the marginals.

2 page Plop! foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Plops [I]"

Characters Cain; Abel; Eve
Synopsis A few warm-up chuckles to soften you up for the idiocy to come.
Genre Humor
Pencils Sergio Aragones
Inks Sergio Aragones
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: Plop! 1 (DC, 2000 Series) #nn (July 2000)

5 page Plop! story "The Escape!"

Characters Cain (Story teller); Jonathan Francis
Synopsis A whimsical look at dungeon life by Sergio Aragones.
Genre Humor
Script Sergio Aragones
Pencils Sergio Aragones
Inks Sergio Aragones
Notes Nominated for a Shazam Award in 1973 for best Humor Story.
Reprinted in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #63 (August 1985); in Millennium Edition: Plop! 1 (DC, 2000 Series) #nn (July 2000)

3 page Plop! filler "Plops [II]"

Synopsis You need a rest from all this sick humor, right? Your belly hurts from laughing, right? Well -- TOO BAD!... have another stomach ache!
Genre Humor
Notes Multiple one-panel gags. Multiple job numbers.
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: Plop! 1 (DC, 2000 Series) #nn (July 2000)

1 page Editorial text article "A Plop Is Born"

Genre Humor
Script Paul Levitz
Letters Typeset
Notes The Origin of Plop!
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: Plop! 1 (DC, 2000 Series) #nn (July 2000)

5 page story "Kongzilla!"

Synopsis What is this drooling, slurping, YEECHY thing emerging from the primeval slime and muck? You guessed it -- it's KONGZILLA!
Genre Humor
Script Frank Robbins
Pencils George Evans
Inks George Evans
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: Plop! 1 (DC, 2000 Series) #nn (July 2000)

4 page Plop! filler "Plops [III]"

Synopsis Time out for some more sicky-dickies, kids! Remember, PLOP and world PLOPS with you, right?
Genre Humor
Notes Multiple one-panel gags. Multiple job numbers.
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: Plop! 1 (DC, 2000 Series) #nn (July 2000)

2 page story "The Message"

Synopsis A brief yarn for those of you who've occasionally had you TV reception ruined by... ghosts!
Genre Humor
Script Sheldon Mayer
Pencils Alfredo Alcala
Inks Alfredo Alcala
Reprinted in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #63; in Millennium Edition: Plop! 1 (DC, 2000 Series) #nn (July 2000)

4 page Plop! filler "Plops [IV]"

Synopsis Gimme a P and an L O P! Whattay got? PLOP! PLOP!
Genre Humor
Notes Multiple one-panel gags. Multiple job numbers.
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: Plop! 1 (DC, 2000 Series) #nn (July 2000)

6 page story "The Gourmet"

Characters Cain (Story host); Vernon Glute; Hormsley (Death); Unnamed male and female customers at Slee-Zee Diner; Unnamed cook at Slee-Zee Diner; Unnamed male waiter at Slee-Zee Diner
Synopsis Bernie Wrightson drew this tasteless tale about a man who would pay any price for a meal of frogs' legs. You heard us right, kiddies... any price !
Genre Horror
Script Steve Skeates
Pencils Berni Wrightson [Bernie Wrightson] (Signed)
Inks Berni Wrightson [Bernie Wrightson] (Signed)
Reprinted in Masterworks Series of Great Comic Book Artists, The (1983 series) #3 (October 1983) [complete story and p. 5 used as cover]; in Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #60 (May 1985); in Welcome Back to the House of Mystery (DC, 1998 series) #1 (July 1998); in Millennium Edition: Plop! 1 (DC, 2000 Series) #nn (July 2000)

1 page Plop! recap "Closing"

Characters Cain; Abel; Eve
Genre Humor
Pencils Sergio Aragones
Inks Sergio Aragones
Notes Sequence on inside back cover page in black and white.
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: Plop! 1 (DC, 2000 Series) #nn (July 2000) [as back cover in color]

1 page Plop! illustration "Arms" Armstrong

Characters "Arms" Armstrong
Genre Humor
Pencils Basil Wolverton; Sergio Aragones (Background)
Inks Basil Wolverton; Sergio Aragones (Background)
Notes Character artwork same as front cover with the Sergio Aragones artwork filling in entire background not just marginal border. Text and Wolverton's signature are ommitted as well.