Editing Plop! (section)

==Background and creation==
According to [[Steve Skeates]], ''Plop!'' was based around a horror / humor story he wrote called "The Poster Plague", which was published in ''The [[House of Mystery]]''.<ref name="Back21">{{cite journal|last= Cassell|first= Dewey|date = April 2007|title= The Hellish Humor of ''Plop!''|journal= [[Back Issue!]]|issue= #21|pages= 21–27|publisher= [[TwoMorrows Publishing]]}}</ref>

The title initially was intended to be called ''Zany''. A number of the one-panel cartoons published in the comic included the visible prefix ZA, in reference to the originally intended title. [[Sergio Aragonés]] credits publisher [[Carmine Infantino]] with coming up with the final title: "[[Joe Orlando]] and I were sitting in a restaurant talking with Carmine Infantino. They wanted a magazine that was different, something about black humor. Carmine came up with the name. We were talking about it and he said, 'What will we call it?' And I said, 'We can call it anything, because if the magazine is good, then it will stay'. And he said, 'No, we can't call it, for instance...PLOP!' And I said, 'Yes, we can'. And so I started making sketches of things going PLOP! and they laughed and decided the name was good".<ref name="Back21"/>