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The recent thread about Groo the Wanderer made me think about Sergio Aragones and Plop!
Plop! was a great series, unlike anything DC had put out at the time. It featured macabre humor and an all-star cast of contributors. Sergio Aragones (Mad, Groo); Steve Skeates (Aquaman in the '60s/'70s); Nick Cardy (Teen Titans); Frank Robbins (Batman); Lee Marrs (Pudge the Girl Blimp); David Manak (Mad, Cracked, Crazy); David Michelinie (Spiderman and Iron Man); and Ramona Fradon (Aquaman, Superman, Batman and Brenda Starr).
Of course, it was the classic covers by Basil Wolverton and Wallace Wood that made Plop! leap off the comic book rack. Wolverton did some of his best covers for Plop!
Unfortunately, the series only ran for 24 issues over three years ('73 to '76). I have them all and they are a source of pride for this underground comic book collector.
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over40artist (4/19/2008)
The recent thread about Groo the Wanderer made me think about Sergio Aragones and Plop! Plop! was a great series, unlike anything DC had put out at the time. It featured macabre humor and an all-star cast of contributors. Sergio Aragones (Mad, Groo); Steve Skeates (Aquaman in the '60s/'70s); Nick Cardy (Teen Titans); Frank Robbins (Batman); Lee Marrs (Pudge the Girl Blimp); David Manak (Mad, Cracked, Crazy); David Michelinie (Spiderman and Iron Man); and Ramona Fradon (Aquaman, Superman, Batman and Brenda Starr). Of course, it was the classic covers by Basil Wolverton and Wallace Wood that made Plop! leap off the comic book rack. Wolverton did some of his best covers for Plop! Unfortunately, the series only ran for 24 issues over three years ('73 to '76). I have them all and they are a source of pride for this underground comic book collector. http://www.cosmiccomix.com/comics/Humor All that - plus a couple of great Wrightson horror stories. I've got all the issues. And 3 Wolverton covers (one unpublished) and a complete unpublished Manak story. 
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Now I have to disagree to a point here. I do not think they would be a source of pride to only an "underground" comic collector, as I do collect both types and have a full set of Plop myself. I put it more in the category with Arrgh! and Not Brand Yechh!
Where does he get those wonderful toys!
I have yet begun to surrender.
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And while we're on the subject, I don't consider my run of Plop complete without including the DC Digests of that title, as well. Yes they are reprints, but they are still Plop in my book! Says so right there on the title. Am taking a second run of the 1st ten issues, the ones with no advertising, and sending them to have them bound into hardcover as a companion to my bound runs of Not Brand Echh, Aargh, Spoof, and Wasteland (80's Del Close and John Ostrander title). While not UG, definitely the big 2 getting almost there. A source of pride no matter how you look at it, especially if you like comics that are 'comic'!
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wpbooks (4/20/2008)
And while we're on the subject, I don't consider my run of Plop complete without including the DC Digests of that title, as well. Yes they are reprints, but they are still Plop in my book! Says so right there on the title. Am taking a second run of the 1st ten issues, the ones with no advertising, and sending them to have them bound into hardcover as a companion to my bound runs of Not Brand Echh, Aargh, Spoof, and Wasteland (80's Del Close and John Ostrander title). While not UG, definitely the big 2 getting almost there. A source of pride no matter how you look at it, especially if you like comics that are 'comic'!DC Super-Stars #13 is the all Sergio issue - it's pretty much left-over Plop stories. (Plop is funnier than Not Brand Echh, Aargh or Spoof.) On the topic of UG by the Big Two - Marvel / Krupp (Kitchen's company) published 5 issues of Comix Book - mag sized - 1974-76. It was their attempt at an underground. It's non-code (being a mag), but there's no nudity, sex, or drug use...
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The Joker (4/20/2008)
Now I have to disagree to a point here. I do not think they would be a source of pride to only an "underground" comic collector, as I do collect both types and have a full set of Plop myself. I put it more in the category with Arrgh! and Not Brand Yechh!
I didn't mean to say that Plop! was an underground comic book. I don't consider it underground at all in the technical sense of the term, just that — for a mainstream comic — it appeals to my underground comic sensibilities.
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As a read I love Plop but I gotta admit I never liked the covers. Yes they are artistic and original but I just never enjoyed them I always found them slightly disturbing. (Feel free to point out duh thats the point)
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