Contents: Letter from the Editor: Navigating the Mean Streets of New York. Shemp Howard, Singular Stooge by Drew Friedman. Joseph Goebbels’s Top Secret, Private Diary by Amy Heckerling. Three Cartoons by David Berman. White Light by Jay Ruttenberg. Blow It Up: Bill Morrison, the Balloon Man by Engel Schmidl. The Summer of Dark Helmet: Stalking Mel Brooks by Brian Abrams. Comic Art by Gilbert Gottfried.

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by John Mathias (cover), Drew Friedman, Doreen Kirchner, Jeffrey Lewis, Alex Eben Meyer, Mike Reddy, and Tom Sanford