Millennium Edition: Plop!

    (DC, 2000)
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To celebrate the end of one millennium and the beginning of another, DC Comics published a series of Millennium Editions that reprinted significant books from the Golden, Silver, Bronze, and Modern Ages of Comics. While Plop! might seem a questionable title in a series that includes reprints of truly great comics like Action Comics #1 and Detective Comics #27, it’s an interesting historical artifact from DC’s early Bronze Age. Reminiscent of the early Mad (and edited by former Mad staffer Joe Orlando), Plop! took “weird humor” to the extreme of the definition, mixing laugh-out-loud stories and sight gags from the likes of Sergio Aragonés (Groo the Wanderer) with truly bizarre tales from Berni Wrightson (Swamp Thing). As “hosts” for each story, the magazine featured none other than Cain and Abel from DC’s House of Mystery and House of Secrets horror line. Both of whom would later appear in a vastly different fashion in the writings of Alan Moore (Saga of the Swamp Thing) and Neil Gaiman (Sandman).
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#1

July, 2000
Cover Price: $2.50
4 copies available from $5.00 		Frank Robbins, Paul Levitz, Sergio Aragonés, Sheldon Mayer, Steve SkeatesAlfredo P. Alcala, Bernie Wrightson, George Evans, Sergio Aragonés