Plop! #17

DC's self-described "Magazine of Weird Humor" is in fine form with this October 1975 issue, featuring a cover by Basil Wolverton that is gloriously, unapologetically strange — a bug-eyed, long-nosed disembodied head dangles by a twisted cord from a hole punched clean through the wall, all while an oversized lumpy orb hangs beneath it. The banner scroll identifies this unfortunate soul as Tonsils Thompson, Plop!'s "prize medical mystery," packed with problems from tonsils to toes, with every removed protuberance growing right back. Inside, writer Steve Skeates and artist/inker David Manak bring their own offbeat sensibilities to "World's Greatest Gumshoe!" — making this a treat for anyone who appreciated comics that reveled in the absurd.