Plop!
Plop! | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | DC Comics |
Schedule | Bi-monthly |
Format | Ongoing series |
Genre | |
Publication date | September/October 1973 – November/December 1976 |
No. of issues | 24 |
Creative team | |
Artist(s) | Sergio Aragonés, Basil Wolverton, Wally Wood |
Editor(s) | Joe Orlando |
Plop!, "The New Magazine of Weird Humor!", was a
.Background and creation
According to Steve Skeates, Plop! was based around a horror / humor story he wrote called "The Poster Plague", which was published in The House of Mystery.[2]
The title initially was intended to be called Zany. A number of the one-panel cartoons published in the comic included the visible prefix ZA, in reference to the originally intended title. Sergio Aragonés credits publisher Carmine Infantino with coming up with the final title: "Joe Orlando and I were sitting in a restaurant talking with Carmine Infantino. They wanted a magazine that was different, something about black humor. Carmine came up with the name. We were talking about it and he said, 'What will we call it?' And I said, 'We can call it anything, because if the magazine is good, then it will stay'. And he said, 'No, we can't call it, for instance...PLOP!' And I said, 'Yes, we can'. And so I started making sketches of things going PLOP! and they laughed and decided the name was good".[2]
Contents
Each issue was centered on a
Stories for Plop! were generally created in one of three ways. The most common was that
An illustrative tale drawn by
Aragonés drew most of the frame stories. Later MAD contributor Dave Manak also did art.[4]
The magazine was first published without ads but, when sales proved insufficient, advertisements were brought in for later issues. The magazine sold so poorly that, even with the added advertising revenue, DC Comics lost money on each issue, leading to its cancellation.[2]
Awards
The series received a number of awards, including the
Collected editions
- The Steve Ditko Omnibus Volume 1 includes Plop! #16: "Love is a Dandy!" by Steve Skeates and Steve Ditko, 480 pages, September 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3111-X
Notes
- ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9.
Edited by Joe Orlando with contributions from comics' finest creators, Plop! was truly 'The Magazine of Weird Humor!'
- ^ a b c d e f g Cassell, Dewey (April 2007). "The Hellish Humor of Plop!". Back Issue! (#21). TwoMorrows Publishing: 21–27.
- ^ Skeates, Steve (w), Wrightson, Bernie (p), Wrightson, Bernie (i). "The Gourmet" Plop!, no. 1 (September–October 1973).
- ^ Klein, Todd (March 15, 2010). "Logo Study: PLOP!". Retrieved March 23, 2010.
- ^ "1977 | the Eagle Awards". April 4, 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-04-04. at the official Eagle Awards website, archived at the Wayback Machine. (Retrieved 9 September 2018.)
References
- Plop! at the Grand Comics Database
- Plop! at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)