Issue Details

Issue	#5
Published	May-June 1974
Frequency	bi-monthly
Cover Price	0.20 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Joe Orlando; Paul Levitz (assistant)
Notes	No ads.

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

Characters	"Nails" Nittle
Genre	Humor
Pencils	Basil Wolverton
Inks	Basil Wolverton
Notes	Image is right half of back cover image.

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

Genre	Humor
Pencils	Sergio Aragones
Inks	Sergio Aragones
Editing	Joe Orlando; Paul Levitz (assistant)

3 page Plop! foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Plop Celebrates"

Characters	Cain; Abel; Eve
Genre	Humor
Pencils	Sergio Aragones
Inks	Sergio Aragones

3 page Plop! filler "Super Plops"

Characters	Batman; Robin; Supergirl; Superman; Flash; Lois Lane; Clark Kent; Perry White
Genre	Humor; Superhero
Pencils	Murphy Anderson (signed)
Inks	Murphy Anderson (signed)
Notes	Multiple gags. Job numbers A-117 and A-109.

8 page story "The Ultimate Freedom"

Genre	Humor
Script	David V. Reed [as Coram Nobis]
Pencils	Sergio Aragones
Inks	Sergio Aragones
Reprinted	in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #60

1 page Plop! filler "People Plops"

Genre	Humor
Notes	Multiple gags. Multiple job numbers.

2 page Plop! filler "Prison Plops"

Genre	Humor
Notes	Multiple gags. Multiple job numbers.

2 page Plop! filler "Prescription Plops"

Genre	Humor
Notes	Multiple gags. Multiple job numbers.

3 page story "His Honor the Mayor"

Genre	Horror
Script	Bill Reilly
Pencils	Mike Sekowsky
Inks	Mike Sekowsky

2 page Plop! filler "Monster Plops"

Genre	Humor
Notes	Multiple gags. Multiple job numbers.

6 page Pierre Gouny story "Molded in Evil"

Characters	Cain (story host); Clothilde (Pierre Gouny's wife); Pierre Gouny (sculptor)
Synopsis	In 1850 Paris, Pierre Gouny, a sculptor, secretly discovers how to make statues come alive. His wife Clothilde, though, wants him to concentrate only on gargoyle statues that bring in the money. Exasperated, the sculptor makes a statue of a woman, so as to escape with her. His wife destroys it prompting him to murder and conceal her, ironically, inside a gargoyle statue which then comes alive making Pierre himself part of a sculpture.
Genre	Horror; Humor
Script	Ed Noonchester (idea); George Kashdan
Pencils	Berni Wrightson [Bernie Wrightson]
Inks	Berni Wrightson [Bernie Wrightson]
Reprinted	in The Masterworks Series of Great Comic Book Artists (DC, 1983 series) #3 (October 1983); in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #63 (August 1985); in Welcome Back to the House of Mystery (DC, 1998 series) #1 (July 1998)

1 page Plop! recap "Closing"

Genre	Humor
Pencils	Sergio Aragones
Inks	Sergio Aragones
Notes	Sequence on inside back cover in black and white.

1 page Plop! illustration "Nails" Nittle

Genre	Humor
Pencils	Basil Wolverton
Inks	Basil Woverton
Notes	Full image of cover image.