This month the Subs Letter was accidentally raised from the dead by some gravedigging skeletons.

That which ONLY SUBSCRIBERS KNEW was how to medically disable Jonathan with a small torch.

My AP Subs Letters prior to this, which I have but do not consider worth reprinting, evolve from a traditional hurried single sheet of writing JD asked me to do at the last possible moment, through big square boxes with large text and isolated photos of Edward G Robinson, the short-lived Brains Trust column Ask Professor AP and the brutally censored Man From UNCLE strip, to the first appearance of unofficial Subs Letter hosts Clive and Ming, and the Awkwardly Overdue Slight Rejig with unnecessarily imposing backgrounds and Inspector Inverted-Sixties- Title-Sequence.

AP50's is the first "proper" Subs Letter, setting the pattern of a film review, a few things ONLY SUBSCRIBERS MAY KNOW, oblique references to Sam Raimi (not hard, this month's) and lots of speech bubbles, to which increasingly complicated photo-stories clung like a lung rung.

Originally, YS's Andy O had carefully drawn a speech bubble template, which actually appeared in AP as part of, for example, It's A Lie (With Gerald Falsely). But, due to strange technical reasons associated with forgetting the original filename, it always came out grotesquely bitty on the page. Sue then pointed out that, with the new version of layout program Quark, you could place perfect speech bubbles by drawing a circle then stretching a bit out of it to make a tail. This was an excellent moment. Thanks, Sue.