1984: KP ALIEN SPACERS ADVERT - PART FOUR (IPC)

The fourth, and final, part of the KP ALIEN SPACERS saga, as chronicled in IPC weeklies dated 29 September 1984.  Once again, the denizens of the galaxy are free to eat bizarrely-shaped snacks of indeterminate origin again.  Hurrah.

1984: KP ALIEN SPACERS ADVERT - PART THREE (IPC)

Today is Part Three of the KP ALIEN SPACERS double-page advert, originally published in IPC weeklies dated 22 September 1984.

1984: KP ALIEN SPACERS ADVERT - PART TWO (IPC)

 Part Two of the four-part KP snack-hawking space adventure which ran in IPC weeklies in September 1984.  This instalment appeared in comics dated 15 September 1984.

1984: KP ALIEN SPACERS ADVERT - PART ONE (IPC)

Crisps are exciting aren't they?  They really enliven any lunch box.  And transport you - in an instant - to alien worlds, packed full of adventure!  Or - maybe - they just make you fat.

KP's marketing people were obviously determined to shift more bags of ALIEN SPACERS (which were shaped - vaguely - like spaceships and the like, although you can't help but wonder if the manufacturing folk knocked-up anything they could and then challenged the marketing department to come up with something to justify their bizarre misshapen efforts) and commissioned this multi-part full-colour (worth remembering that each issue only had, at most, eight colour pages an issue, and that was usually only when an advertiser wanted a colour interior page) space adventure to run across four issues.

This instalment ran in selected IPC weeklies cover-dated 8 September 1984.  I'm pretty sure there was also an alternate version of each strip, with additional panels, which ran in the Mail on Sunday's comics supplement.  I have no idea why, unless the MoS pages were sufficiently larger (I don't remember) and allowed for the insertion of more panels-per-page.