Plop!
#1
(September-October 1973)
DC,
1973 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1973-06-21
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [circle]
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #97. No ads.
[no title indexed]
Plop! / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Basil Wolverton (signed); Sergio Aragonés (marginals)
- Inks
- Basil Wolverton (signed); Sergio Aragonés (marginals)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sergio Aragonés (logo design); typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The new magazine of weird humor!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- "Arms" Armstrong
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Cover art is a smaller version of the back cover. Logo design credit from Todd Klein (confirmed by Aragonés through Mark Evanier) via his Facebook page, used with permission.
Table of Plop-tents
table of contents / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Sergio Aragonés (signed)
- Inks
- Sergio Aragonés (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- A-122
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
-
in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #7 [Plop! Insert] (June 2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Contents page with Sergio Aragonés art filling in the marginals.
[I]
Plops / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages
- Job Number
- ZA-46
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Cain; Abel; Eve
- Reprints
- in The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #60 (May 1985) [page 1 only]
- in Millennium Edition: Plop! 1 (DC, 2000 series) (July 2000)
- in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #7 [Plop! Insert] (June 2019)
-
The Escape!
Plop! / comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- ZA-39
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Cain (Story teller); Jonathan Francis
- Synopsis
- A whimsical look at dungeon life by Sergio Aragonés.
- Reprints
-
in Sommer-Plop! (Interpresse, 1983 series) #2 (20. juni 1984) -
in Sommerplop (Semic, 1983 series) #2 ([juli] 1984) - in The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #63 (August 1985)
-
in Groo Svärdbäraren (Semic, 1984 series) #4/1985 ([augusti] 1985) - in Groo sverdsvingeren (Semic, 1984 series) #6 (uke 36 1985) [2nd translation]
- in Millennium Edition: Plop! 1 (DC, 2000 series) (July 2000)
- in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #7 [Plop! Insert] (June 2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Nominated for a Shazam Award in 1973 for Best Humor Story.
[II]
Plops / cartoon / 3 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Pat Anderson; Goddard Sherman; Cork; Robert Johnson (signed); ?
- Inks
- Pat Anderson; Goddard Sherman; Cork; Robert Johnson (signed); ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- in Sommer-Plop! (Interpresse, 1983 series) #1 (29. juni 1983) [Only ZA-16 - "Now tell us about the time you rubbed your eye with the wrong hand..."
ZA-106 - "We had the cap on the lens, could you please hit him a few more times?"] - in Sommerplop (Semic, 1983 series) #1 (uke 26 1983) [Only ZA-16 - "Now tell us about the time you rubbed your eye with the wrong hand..."
ZA-106 - "We had the cap on the lens, could you please hit him a few more times?"] - in Sommer-Plop! (Interpresse, 1983 series) #3 (19. juni 1985) [Only ZA-90 - "Wow... it sure doesn't taste like tomato juice!"
ZA-30 - "Don't take too much off the top."
ZA-21 - Small guard at cemetery plot.] - in Sommerplop (Semic, 1983 series) #3 ([juli ?] 1985) [Only ZA-90 - "Wow... it sure doesn't taste like tomato juice!"
ZA-30 - "Don't take too much off the top."
ZA-21 - Small guard at cemetery plot.] - in Millennium Edition: Plop! 1 (DC, 2000 series) (July 2000)
- in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #7 [Plop! Insert] (June 2019)
-
- Keywords
- dungeon; graveyard; pirate; vampire
Indexer Notes
Multiple one-panel gags. Multiple job numbers.
A-125A - "I love a parade!"
ZA-16 - "Now tell us about the time you rubbed your eye with the wrong hand..."
ZA-106 - "We had the cap on the lens, could you please hit him a few more times?"
ZA-90 - "Wow... it sure doesn't taste like tomato juice!"
ZA-30 - "Don't take too much off the top."
ZA-21 - Small guard at cemetery plot.
A Plop Is Born
text article / 1 page
- Script
- Paul Levitz (credited as Cain)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- ZA-79
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- in Millennium Edition: Plop! 1 (DC, 2000 series) (July 2000)
- in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #7 [Plop! Insert] (June 2019)
-
- Keywords
- editorial
Indexer Notes
The Origin of Plop!
Kongzilla!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- ZA-76
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- What is this drooling, slurping, YEECHY thing emerging from the primeval slime and muck? You guessed it -- it's KONGZILLA!
- Reprints
-
in Flash Espionnage (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #71 (octobre 1975) [N&B [B&W]] - in Topp-serien [Toppserien] (Semic, 1977 series) #3/1978 ([1 mars] 1978)
- in Sommer-Plop! (Interpresse, 1983 series) #1 (29. juni 1983)
- in Sommerplop (Semic, 1983 series) #1 (uke 26 1983)
- in Millennium Edition: Plop! 1 (DC, 2000 series) (July 2000)
- in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #7 [Plop! Insert] (June 2019)
-
[III]
Plops / cartoon / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- A. S. Habbick; Robert Johnson (signed); ?
- Inks
- A. S. Habbick; Robert Johnson (signed); ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- in Sommer-Plop! (Interpresse, 1983 series) #1 (29. juni 1983) [Only ZA-85 - Guy wheeling patient to surgery gets distracted by nurse.]
- in Sommerplop (Semic, 1983 series) #1 (uke 26 1983) [Only ZA-85 - Guy wheeling patient to surgery gets distracted by nurse.]
- in Sommer-Plop! (Interpresse, 1983 series) #2 (20. juni 1984) [Only A-137 - X marks the spot - for the letter X.]
- in Sommerplop (Semic, 1983 series) #2 ([juli] 1984) [Only A-137 - X marks the spot - for the letter X.]
- in Millennium Edition: Plop! 1 (DC, 2000 series) (July 2000)
- in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #7 [Plop! Insert] (June 2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Multiple one-panel gags. Multiple job numbers.
A-137 - X marks the spot - for the letter X.
ZA-8 - A bucket of coins above a door falls on a bank robber.
ZA-85 - Guy wheeling patient to surgery gets distracted by nurse.
A-160 - "So, what's so strange about an ingrown hair?"
A-136 - "Dad, Dad, I only had one cavity!"
The Message
comic story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- J-1822
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A ghost reports back to his friends in the graveyard what the score of the ballgame was.
- Reprints
- in Sommer-Plop! (Interpresse, 1983 series) #1 (29. juni 1983)
- in Sommerplop (Semic, 1983 series) #1 (uke 26 1983)
- in The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #63 (August 1985)
- in Millennium Edition: Plop! 1 (DC, 2000 series) (July 2000)
- in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #7 [Plop! Insert] (June 2019)
-
[IV]
Plops / cartoon / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Albano; Robert Johnson (signed); Oskar Blotta Jr.; ?; ? (as Dawson)
- Inks
- John Albano; Robert Johnson (signed); Oskar Blotta Jr.; ?; ? (as Dawson)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- in Sommer-Plop! (Interpresse, 1983 series) #1 (29. juni 1983) [Only ZA-12 - Lady takes dog to cemetery so the dog can bury a bone.
A-139 - Sweeping the dirt under a dungeon prisoner.
ZA-70 - "April Fool!" Mad doctor switches a monsters hands and feet.] - in Sommerplop (Semic, 1983 series) #1 (uke 26 1983) [Only ZA-12 - Lady takes dog to cemetery so the dog can bury a bone.
A-139 - Sweeping the dirt under a dungeon prisoner.
ZA-70 - "April Fool!" Mad doctor switches a monsters hands and feet.] - in Millennium Edition: Plop! 1 (DC, 2000 series) (July 2000)
- in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #7 [Plop! Insert] (June 2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Multiple one-panel gags. Multiple job numbers.
ZA-27 - "Mother, look - a ghost!" Baby fish sees fish skeleton.
ZA-11 - "This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home, this little..."
ZA-109 - Eternal Peace Monument Co. Lifetime Guarantee.
ZA-12 - Lady takes dog to cemetery so the dog can bury a bone.
A-139 - Sweeping the dirt under a dungeon prisoner.
ZA-70 - "April Fool!" Mad doctor switches a monsters hands and feet.
ZA-19 - "You the party who advertised for a young man with a good brain?"
A-140 - Doggone kids leavin' toys all over the park!
J-1461 - A pointy tailed guy visits his friend in a hospital; Referee check the rule book on a fighter eating his opponent; Airplane pilots wearing parachutes run past passengers.
The Gourmet
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Steve Skeates (credited) (writer)
- Pencils
- Bernie Wrightson (credited) (signed as Wrightson 72) (artist)
- Inks
- Bernie Wrightson (credited) (signed as Wrightson 72) (artist)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- J-1810
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Fat... gross... a slob... any of these terms would apply to Vernon Glute...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- 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 tale about a man who would pay any price for a meal of frogs' legs. You heard us right, kiddies... any price !
- Awards
- Reprints
- in Flash Espionnage (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #70 [N&B [B&W]]
- in Sommer-Plop! (Interpresse, 1983 series) #1 (29. juni 1983)
- in Sommerplop (Semic, 1983 series) #1 (uke 26 1983)
- in The Masterworks Series of Great Comic Book Artists (DC, 1983 series) #3 (October 1983), #3 (October 1983) [p. 5 as cover]
- in The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #60 (May 1985)
- in Spécial USA (Albin Michel, 1985 series) #14 / 15 (juin 1985)
- in Welcome Back to the House of Mystery (DC, 1998 series) #1 (July 1998)
- in Millennium Edition: Plop! 1 (DC, 2000 series) (July 2000)
- in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #7 [Plop! Insert] (June 2019)
-
[Closing]
Plops / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Job Number
- ZA-47
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Cain; Abel; Eve
- Reprints
- in Millennium Edition: Plop! 1 (DC, 2000 series) (July 2000) [reprint is colored]
- in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #7 [Plop! Insert] (June 2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Sequence on inside back cover page in black and white.
["Arms" Armstrong]
Plop! / illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Basil Wolverton; Sergio Aragonés (background)
- Inks
- Basil Wolverton; Sergio Aragonés (background)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- "Arms" Armstrong
- Reprints
- in Mad (EC, 2018 series) #7 [Plop! Insert] (June 2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Character artwork same as front cover with the Sergio Aragonés artwork filling in entire background not just marginal border. Text and Wolverton's signature are omitted as well.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["The new magazine of weird humor!"]
Plop! -
1.
Table of Plop-tents
-
2.
[I]
Plops -
3.
The Escape!
Plop! -
4.
[II]
Plops -
5.
A Plop Is Born
-
6.
Kongzilla!
-
7.
[III]
Plops -
8.
The Message
-
9.
[IV]
Plops -
10.
The Gourmet
-
11.
[Closing]
Plops -
12.
["Arms" Armstrong]
Plop!
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