Plop!, "The New Magazine of Weird Humor!", was a comic book

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 anthology

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 published by DC Comics

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 in the mid 1970s. It falls into the horror

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 / humor genre

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. There were 24 issues in all and the series ran from Sept./Oct. 1973

1973 in comics

-Year overall:* Dell Comics, after 44 years in the comics business, ceases publication; a few of the company's former titles moving to Gold Key Comics....

 to Nov./Dec. 1976

1976 in comics

This is a list of comics-related events in 1976.- Year overall :* American Splendor, Harvey Pekar's long-running autobiographical comic book title, publishes its debut issue.* Fantagraphics Books, Inc. founded by Gary Groth and Michael Catron....

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Contents

Issues were hosted by three ghoulish characters with biblical names: Cain, Abel, and Eve. An issue would typically contain a story told by each of the characters, each bidding to outdo the others in fiendishness.

An illustrative tale involved a gourmet diner whose love for frogs' legs leads to a predictable amphibian revenge: he is left without lower limbs and is doomed to negotiate the world on a trolley.

Basil Wolverton

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 and Wallace Wood provided distinctive covers for the first 19 issues, each depicting a freakish character of some kind. Both artists worked on MAD Magazine, and the logo of Plop! is clearly reminiscent of the classic early logo of that magazine. Sergio Aragones

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, perhaps better known for his work in MAD, drew many of the more cartoonish tales and most of the surrounding banter between the three hosts.
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.

Awards

The series received a number of awards including the Shazam Award for Best Humor Story in 1973 for "The Gourmet" in issue #1, and another nomination for the same award for "The Escape" in the same issue. Steve Skeates

Steve Skeates

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 also won the Shazam Award for Best Writer (Humor Division) in 1973 for his work on the series.