Albator offerte par Braisor (1979)
There you are, happily reading your Journal de Mickey, when suddenly…
Wait… does that ad say "décalcomanies a sec"? — Let me take a closer look…
It does! Quick — buy some on eBay! Well… half of them, anyway.
Here are the backing papers (with & without the transfers attached to the front)
By the way — "Albator" is the name of the French version of "Space Pirate Captain Harlock".
Note the name of the company running these sorts of promotions around this time: "Extension 21".
I'm afraid we don't have any of the packets with their four different backgrounds…
UPDATE: yes, we do — all of them! Read on…
A Glimpse of More Transfer Sheets
No scans yet for the other five sheets, but here are three of the remainder — edited from photos kindly sent to us by vintage33-addict:
Original photos by vintage33-addict
Of the two we can't show you, you can at least get an idea of one; it's the top sheet in the Journal de Mickey ad, above.
And now the Packet Backs!
Bruno (mapie-11 on eBay) had no less than fifteen of these packet backs, all completed with additional speech balloons plus other interesting & creative markings, as above: but by the time I contacted him, he had sold them all.
I asked him if we could use his auction photos:
"Oui avec grand plaisir :)"
It took a LOT of restoration work to get them clean & tidy, but I hope when you see them here below, you'll agree it was worth it.
Some of the backs have "Braisor" & "Prior" in red, & others in green; each background can appear with either colour, so I don't know what the explanation is — if any!
And naturally you will be dying to view a packet back back:
All these original packet photos by mapie-11
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