Although Kurtzman agreed to publish the story, he requested that Crumb alter the final two panels; the published version depicted Fritz standing next to her. Crumb later recalled that the original ending "wasn't that dirty ... only slightly risque by today's standards". In May 1965, "Help!" published a second Fritz story, "Fred, the Teen-Age Girl Pigeon". In this episode Fritz is a guitar-playing pop idol and he brings Fred, a female pigeon groupie, to his hotel room and proceeds to eat her. John Canaday's "New York" magazine review of "Head Comix" describes this punch line as "outrageous brilliance is rivaled only by Evelyn Waugh's last lines in "The Loved One"."