Plop! #5
(May-June 1974)

DC, 1973 Series
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Volume
2
Price
0.20 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1974-02-14
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
National Periodical Publications Inc.
Brand
The Line of DC Super-Stars
Editing
Joe Orlando (editor); Paul Levitz (assistant editor)

Issue Notes

No ads. On-sale date from Comic Reader #103.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Plop! / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Basil Wolverton
Inks
Basil Wolverton
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
The new magazine of weird humor!
Genre
humor
Characters
"Nails" Nittle

Indexer Notes

Image is right half of back cover image.

Table of Plop-tents (Table of Contents: 1)

Plop! / table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Sergio Aragonés
Inks
Sergio Aragonés
Letters
typeset

Job Number
ZA-232
Genre
humor

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

[Plop Celebrates] (Table of Contents: 2)

Plop! / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 3 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Sergio Aragonés
Inks
Sergio Aragonés
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
ZA-213; ZA-214; J-3158
Genre
humor
Characters
Cain; Abel; Eve

Indexer Notes

Title from table of contents. Each page has a different job number.

Super Plops (Table of Contents: 3)

Plops / cartoon / 3 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Murphy Anderson (signed)
Inks
Murphy Anderson (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
A-117; A-109
Genre
humor; superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Supergirl [Kara Zor-El]; Superman [Clark Kent]; Flash [Barry Allen]; Lois Lane; Morgan Edge
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Multiple gags.
Batman - A steamroller rolls over the batmobile.
Flash - Flash cheats while playing cards with Batman and Superman.
Superman - Lois falls out the window and Clark has no time to change before saving her.

The Ultimate Freedom (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
David Vern
Pencils
Sergio Aragonés
Inks
Sergio Aragonés
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
ZA-187
Genre
humor
Reprints

People Plops (Table of Contents: 5)

Plops / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
humor
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Multiple gags. Multiple job numbers.
ZA-147 The door to the Complaint Department leads to the outside of the building.
ZA-36 A hippy outside of a bank holds a sign that says "The Kingdom of Heaven Is Within".
ZA-61 "No, that can't be Arthur - he never smiled."

Prison Plops (Table of Contents: 6)

Plops / cartoon / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Robert Johnson (signed)
Inks
Robert Johnson (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
humor
Reprints
  • DK in Sommer-Plop! (Interpresse, 1983 series) #1 (29. juni 1983) [Only ZA-111 A prisoner's leg is bound up to point to the exit.
    ZA-52 "I'm here, Melvin... you're saved now."
    ZA-236 A prisoner is propped up away from the wet paint on the wall with a stick.], #1 (29. juni 1983) [Only ZA-237 "Well, I warned you not to complain about the cold." and ZA-179 "He's in solitary."]
  • NO in Sommerplop (Semic, 1983 series) #1 (uke 26 1983) [Only ZA-111 A prisoner's leg is bound up to point to the exit.
    ZA-52 "I'm here, Melvin... you're saved now."
    ZA-236 A prisoner is propped up away from the wet paint on the wall with a stick.], #1 (uke 26 1983) [Only ZA-237 "Well, I warned you not to complain about the cold." and ZA-179 "He's in solitary."]

Indexer Notes

Multiple gags. Multiple job numbers.
ZA-237 "Well, I warned you not to complain about the cold."
ZA-179 "He's in solitary."
ZA-111 A prisoner's leg is bound up to point to the exit.
ZA-52 "I'm here, Melvin... you're saved now."
ZA-236 A prisoner is propped up away from the wet paint on the wall with a stick.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Plop Drop / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
ZA-190

Indexer Notes

Letters from: Doug Lang, Dutch Thomas, Noel Caban, Russell Franks, George H. Wells, Guy Lillian III, Evan Marks (2 letters), Mike Walker, Greg, Paul Emrath, Shaun Guenin, Dirk Martine, Andrew Timmons.

Prescription Plops (Table of Contents: 8)

Plops / cartoon / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Robert Johnson (signed)
Inks
Robert Johnson (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
humor
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Multiple gags. Multiple job numbers.
ZA-153 "We ran out of ether." Doctor wearing boxing glove.
ZA-201 "Which one of you poor slobs is Duncan Pheister?"
ZA-217 A one eyed man at the ophthalmologist.
ZA-224 "Oops!" A nurse trips and sends a man's leg into the ceiling.

His Honor the Mayor! (Table of Contents: 9)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script
Murray Boltinoff
Pencils
Mike Sekowsky
Inks
Mike Sekowsky ?
Colors
?
Letters
Ben Oda

Job Number
J-2021
Genre
horror-suspense
Reprints

Monster Plops (Table of Contents: 10)

Plops / cartoon / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Robert Johnson (signed)
Inks
Robert Johnson (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
humor

Indexer Notes

Multiple gags. Multiple job numbers.
A-119 "He followed me home from the atomic energy lab, mom... can I keep him?"
ZA-211 "All you ever think about is neck, neck, neck!"
ZA-180 "Do you hear a muffled groaning sound?"

Molded in Evil (Table of Contents: 11)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Ed Noonchester (idea); George Kashdan
Pencils
Bernie Wrightson (signed)
Inks
Bernie Wrightson (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Ben Oda

Job Number
J-3283
Genre
humor; horror-suspense
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.
Reprints

[Closing] (Table of Contents: 12)

Plop! / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Sergio Aragonés
Inks
Sergio Aragonés
Letters
?

Job Number
ZA-25
Genre
humor

Indexer Notes

On inside back cover in black and white.

["Nails" Nittle] (Table of Contents: 13)

Plop! / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Basil Wolverton
Inks
Basil Wolverton
Colors
?

Genre
humor

Indexer Notes

Full version of front cover image.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["The new magazine of weird humor!"]
    Plop!
  2. 1. Table of Plop-tents
    Plop!
  3. 2. [Plop Celebrates]
    Plop!
  4. 3. Super Plops
    Plops
  5. 4. The Ultimate Freedom
  6. 5. People Plops
    Plops
  7. 6. Prison Plops
    Plops
  8. 7. [no title indexed]
    Plop Drop
  9. 8. Prescription Plops
    Plops
  10. 9. His Honor the Mayor!
  11. 10. Monster Plops
    Plops
  12. 11. Molded in Evil
  13. 12. [Closing]
    Plop!
  14. 13. ["Nails" Nittle]
    Plop!
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Nick Caputo
  • CTGarry
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Matthew Head
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Allen Ross
  • Mark Semich
  • Jim Van Dore