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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published January-February 1974
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Joe Orlando; Paul Levitz (assistant)

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

Genre Humor
Pencils Basil Wolverton
Inks Basil Wolverton
Notes Cover image is small section of back cover image.

1 page Plop! credits "Table of Plop-tents"

Genre Humor
Pencils Sergio Aragones
Inks Sergio Aragones
Letters Typeset
Notes Titles to sequences with short descriptions.

3 page Plop! foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Welcome to Plop"

Characters Cain; Abel; Eve
Synopsis Once again we present three special pages designed to help you finally figure what PLOP means.
Genre Humor
Pencils Sergio Aragones
Inks Sergio Aragones

5 page story "Belly Laugh"

Synopsis You knew that you were going to be taken to the cleaners when you bought this magazine, so it should be no surprise that our first story takes place in a dry-cleaning store.
Genre Humor
Script Maxene Fabe
Pencils Bill Draut
Inks Bill Draut
Notes Story introduced by Abel.

4 page Plop! filler "Plops (I)"

Synopsis Now that you've figured out what PLOP is, see what happens when the whole world goes PLOP!
Genre Humor
Notes Cain introduces multiple one-panel gags. Multiple job numbers.

3 page story "A Rejection From Cain"

Characters Cain
Synopsis If you ever thought about submitting anything to PLOP magazine, forget it! Wait till you see what happened to this ambitious writer.
Genre Humor
Script Michael J. Pellowski
Pencils Alfredo Alcala
Inks Alfredo Alcala
Reprinted in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #63

2 page Prison Plops story "Plops (II)"

Characters Abel
Synopsis C'mon back for another round of the gags geared to make you gag.
Genre Humor
Notes Multiple one-panel gags. Multiple job numbers.

4 page story "Once Upon a Swine..."

Characters Eve
Synopsis Now a story about a millionaire who wanted to live forever... and succeeded! But then he discovered that eternal life can bring eternal problems.
Genre Humor
Script Maxene Fabe; Victor Schwartzman (story idea)
Pencils Sergio Aragones
Inks Sergio Aragones
Notes Story introduced by Eve.
Reprinted in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #63

2 page Plop! filler "Plops (III)"

Characters Abel
Synopsis If all else fails, we've alway got some dungeon jokes to make you laugh. They always say that you draw your best jokes from your surroundings.
Genre Humor
Notes Multiple one-panel gags. Multiple job numbers.

6 page story "This Little Witch Went To Market"

Characters Eve
Synopsis After an issue filled to the brim with freaks and kooks, we decided to toss in a story about the kind of person you see on the street every day... a sweet little old lady who moonlights as a witch.
Genre Humor
Script George Kashdan
Pencils Alfredo Alcala
Inks Alfredo Alcala
Notes Story introduced by Eve.

2 page Plop! filler "At the Beach"

Characters Cain; Abel; Eve
Synopsis Nothing can go PLOP at the beach.
Genre Humor
Pencils Sergio Aragones
Inks Sergio Aragones
Notes Second page of sequence is inside back cover in black and white. Job number for first page of sequence is ZA-147-4 and for second page is ZA-147-5.

1 page illustration "Pinup"

Genre Humor
Pencils Basil Wolverton (signed)
Inks Basil Wolverton (signed)