Plop!
Back in the Seventies, DC Comics published a horror-humor anthology called Plop! The (New) Magazine of Weird Humor. They usually featured one of artist Basil Wolverton's patented ugly-headed freaks on the cover, and the stories inside were frequently illustrated by another Mad Magazine alum, Sergio Aragones.
You can find cover scans from all 24 issues of Plop! at the Booberry Alarm Clock (AKA Crotch Wizard).
[Link: Plop! Cover Gallery]
Comments
1st thought upon seeing Post Title: Indian Dinner after effect
Posted by: Lex10 | March 12, 2007 7:02 AM
And you wouldn't be too far off the mark.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | March 12, 2007 7:06 AM
Ah 'Plop!" I remember this magazine. My grandfather had them all.
Posted by: Collin | March 13, 2007 3:21 PM
Your grandfather was obviously a man of excellent bad taste.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | March 13, 2007 6:35 PM
Hey sonny, I still have the first four issues. This mag was a pretty big deal back in the waning days of my youthful comics interest (blown away later in '73 by rawk 'n' roll).
Plop hatched out of DC's horror stable, and got a lot of pre-release ballyhoo in their pages. It sort of grew out of a plopular Aragones story called "The Poster Plague" (a campus is plastered with mysterious posters proclaiming "Klop Is Coming" -- change one letter, you get the idea), which ran in House Of Mystery (90% sure about that). Plop was a place to channel the gang's 'sick humor' material, and they did press the comics code more than any of their other comics did at the time. Oh that axe killer gal in the see-through baby doll...
The horror hosts came from DC's existing horror titles. Sort of a monster rally sick-joke slam.
The coolest issues are (of course) the early ones, where the back cover was a repeat of the front cover, minus the text -- for a pure Wolverton experience. Later on the back covers carried an ad, like any other comic book. Just not so special anymore.
Posted by: M.Ace | March 13, 2007 6:45 PM
Hey, old man. I was wondering when you were gonna quit lurking in my comments and contribute something.
I didn't start collecting comics until Jack Kirby's New Gods and Kamandi came out, so I missed Plop!'s run entirely. Quite odd, considering that I was a huge fan of all things Mad.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | March 13, 2007 6:55 PM