PLOP covers 2/3

They couldn't always get Basil Wolverton to do the covers, so Wally Wood filled in sometimes.

PLOP covers 1/3

A while ago, I covered PLOP!, and somebody told me the Wolverton covers alone were worth it. Here's one of three days where I show all of them.




This is actually the back cover to #5. The front only printed a cropped version of this picture.

PLOP, 3 of 3

Here's the last of that issue of PLOP! minus the letters page and ads. Maybe in a few months when I run out of stuff, I'll post just the Basil Wolverton covers. Even if there were no content inside, the covers were worth the price alone.

Lee Marrs was an underground cartoonist best known for PUDGE, THE FAT GIRL BLIMP. Her work shows up in some mainstream comics and humor magazines now and then.








Don "Duck" Edwing was mainly a ghost writer for Don Martin and moonlighted for other humor magazines under pseudonyms. I guess because this was a comic book, he was able to use his real name in something that wasn't MAD. David Manak is also a MAD contributor and did SPY VS. SPY for a while.

PLOP, 2 of 3

Now that I did a PLOP prologue a few days ago, here's a random issue of the self-proclaimed magazine of weird humor. Earlier ones had no ads, but it didn't matter that they later had them because of the covers by Basil Wolverton. Even if there were no editorial content inside, they'd be worth it just for the covers. It was a perfect showcase for the Lena the Hyena-like portraits he became best known for.

This was meant to be DC's humorous version of their horror titles, and they used the hosts of the existing books for these stories.


Not enough pages could have horror/O. Henry-like stories, so they had a few strips like this as well. They couldn't have Sergio Aragones do a whole issue, so they also used artists who drew like him. 'Coram Nobis' was a pseudonym for David Vern, who wrote various comics as well as pulps.





They also relied on gag cartoons, too.

PLOP, 1 of 3

In the 70s, DC Comics was doing pretty well with their horror comics, they had regular horror comics, romance horror comics, gothic romance horror comics, etc., usually with a host narrating the stories. Somewhere along the line, one of the combinations with horror was humor horror.

Continuing my showcasing the content of various humor magazines is PLOP!, the aforementioned combination of humor and horror. Before showing that, here's the inspiration for that title. Within HOUSE OF MYSTERY, their title with straight horror stories, they decided that instead of going with someone like Berni Wrightson, they'd have Sergio Aragones illustrate one of their stories. First here's the genesis for PLOP! from #201 in 1972. I'll have an actual issue this Thursday.