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Cover: Basil Wolverton

Plop! #5

May 1974 · DC · 0.20 USD
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“The Ultimate Freedom”

DC's self-proclaimed "New Magazine of Weird Humor" delivers another gleefully grotesque installment with Plop! #5, cover-dated June 1974. Basil Wolverton's cover art introduces "Nails" Nittle — a rubbery, grinning pink creature cheerfully working on a pair of enormous, overgrown toenails — and the accompanying bio describing him as a "free-lance bunion excavator" sets the tone perfectly for the absurdist comedy inside. With interior work by Bernie Wrightson and writing from Ed Noonchester and George Kashdan, this 20-cent issue promises a wonderfully strange read.

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writer Ed Noonchester · writer George Kashdan · artist, inker Bernie Wrightson · letterer Ben Oda · cover Basil Wolverton

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artist, inker Bernie Wrightson
letterer Ben Oda
cover pencils, inks Basil Wolverton

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In 1850 Paris, Pierre Gouny, a sculptor, secretly discovers how to make statues come alive. His wife Clothilde, though, wants him to concentrate only on gargoyle statues that bring in the money. Exasperated, the sculptor makes a statue of a woman, so as to escape with her. His wife destroys it prompting him to murder and conceal her, ironically, inside a gargoyle statue which then comes alive making Pierre himself part of a sculpture.

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