This first volume in the City of Fire trilogy depicts turn of the century New York in all it's chaotic, corrupt glory. When immigrant Kid Twist saves Trick the Dwarf from being murdered by a local gangster, the pair must seek safety in every corner of the city. Their ensuing adventures in Harlem, on the Lower East Side, at Coney Island and every place in between bring them into contact with characters of all kinds including midgets, hustlers, feminist strikers and even Freud.  (NYC159, $14.95)