Friday, September 23, 2016

The Grooviest BACK Covers of All Time: Basil Wolverton Goes Plop!

Dig it, Groove-ophiles! The amazing Basil Wolverton provided the creepy/crazy/cool covers for the first fourteen issues of PLOP! but did you know that for the first ten issues he also provided the back covers? S'truth! Y'see, the first ten issues of DC's Magazine of Weird Humor was an ad-free enterprise. The back covers were what we'd now call "virgin covers", showcasing the art from the front cover with no copy. Even more importantly, the art was printed in an even larger size on the back cover, giving us a greater glimpse of Wolverton's gloriously grotesque but gleefully goofy guys and gals...







And, oh, yeah! Dig those wild and crazy Sergio Aragones cartoons beguiling us from the background!
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6 comments:

  1. Kevin LakeSeptember 23, 2016 at 6:18 AM

    Plop was one of those pure genius moments in time. A distinct feeling with the right artists and writers. Definitely lightening in a bottle never to be repeated.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 23, 2016 at 8:13 AM

    YYAAAAUUGGGHHH!!!!!!

    ...uh, sorry, there, I just wasn't expecting this latest post. Caught me off guard.
    M.P.

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  3. UnknownSeptember 23, 2016 at 10:32 AM

    Do you think the pictured Josephine was Basil's flight attendant girlfriend who dumped him?

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  4. keythd23September 24, 2016 at 8:35 AM

    I liked Basil Wolverton's art. But the Plop! covers were a little too gross for me.

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  5. RussSeptember 24, 2016 at 10:17 AM

    I can see why all of these guys were virgins. Except for Josephine, of course. Who could resist an offer like that?

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  6. AnonymousSeptember 25, 2016 at 5:21 PM

    Thanks so much! Still can't believe DC has NEVER issued a Plop! collection. Seems like nine-year-olds today would still find this stuff hysterical, decades after it was originally published.

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