This advert appears in Transformers No.102, dated 28th Feb.87:
Send for your Marmiteers Fun Pack! It seems to be a very short-lived attempt to make children urge their parents to buy lots of Marmite - you had to send away "only 16oz worth of Marmite labels", which is quite a lot. The little jars of Marmite in those days were 4 ounces (the labels said 113g, but they hadn't yet moved to selling them in round numbers of grammes). If the household only bought a little jar at a time, people eager to read the adventures of Jo-Jo, Bruno and Mar-Might must have been really spreading the stuff heavily on their toast!
I don't know of anyone who got the Fun Pack. I must try to find one some day. I don't dislike Marmite, but it just doesn't seem like something you'd try to promote to children in this way, even in the days when the Transformers comic was chock-full of adverts for the Weetabix gang on their latest adventure. I'd still like to know exactly what Marmite-themed fun our heroes had...
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The successor to this was "Marvin Marmite" (not certain of the name), who appeared in adverts in the Beano and Dandy circa 1999, I'll try and find some the next time I need to scan some comics from that period in...
Oh wow, I'd never even heard of that one! Thank you for enlightening me about another great moment of comic history!
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