Plop! 1973 #1 - 2.0 - $3.00

A whimsical look at dungeon life by Sergio Aragon?s.

What is this drooling, slurping, YEECHY thing emerging from the primeval slime and muck? You guessed it -- it's KONGZILLA!

A ghost reports back to his friends in the graveyard what the score of the ballgame was.

Bernie Wrightson drew this tale about a man who would pay any price for a meal of frogs' legs. You heard us right, kiddies... any price !

On-sale date from Comic Reader #97. No ads.

• - Cover art is a smaller version of the back cover. Logo design credit from Todd Klein (confirmed by Aragon?s through Mark Evanier) via his Facebook page, used with permission.
• Table of Plop-tents - Contents page with Sergio Aragon?s art filling in the marginals.
• The Escape! - Nominated for a Shazam Award in 1973 for Best Humor Story.
• II - Multiple one-panel gags. Multiple job numbers. A-125A - "I love a parade!" ZA-16 - "Now tell us about the time you rubbed your eye with the wrong hand..." ZA-106 - "We had the cap on the lens, could you please hit him a few more times?" ZA-90 - "Wow... it sure doesn't taste like tomato juice!" ZA-30 - "Don't take too much off the top." ZA-21 - Small guard at cemetery plot.
• A Plop Is Born - The Origin of Plop!
• III - Multiple one-panel gags. Multiple job numbers. A-137 - X marks the spot - for the letter X. ZA-8 - A bucket of coins above a door falls on a bank robber. ZA-85 - Guy wheeling patient to surgery gets distracted by nurse. A-160 - "So, what's so strange about an ingrown hair?" A-136 - "Dad, Dad, I only had one cavity!"
• IV - Multiple one-panel gags. Multiple job numbers. ZA-27 - "Mother, look - a ghost!" Baby fish sees fish skeleton. ZA-11 - "This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home, this little..." ZA-109 - Eternal Peace Monument Co. Lifetime Guarantee. ZA-12 - Lady takes dog to cemetery so the dog can bury a bone. A-139 - Sweeping the dirt under a dungeon prisoner. ZA-70 - "April Fool!" Mad doctor switches a monsters hands and feet. ZA-19 - "You the party who advertised for a young man with a good brain?" A-140 - Doggone kids leavin' toys all over the park! J-1461 - A pointy tailed guy visits his friend in a hospital; Referee check the rule book on a fighter eating his opponent; Airplane pilots wearing parachutes run past passengers.
• Closing - Sequence on inside back cover page in black and white.
• "Arms" Armstrong - Character artwork same as front cover with the Sergio Aragon?s artwork filling in entire background not just marginal border. Text and Wolverton's signature are omitted as well.