This Death Box “Pete Dossett” advert looks like one which might have a story behind it. Although it seems fairly roughly put together, it uses two spot colours, which means that it would normally have been expensive.

Death Box were still just starting out (in fact the company is called “Dee See Supplies” in this advert), so the colour would have been a big investment.

I wonder what was going on? Did Billy Brown push them into the extra cost, or did he cut them a deal? Was the colour and afterthought?

I’ve just finished reading a novel which deals with someone trying to stitch together events from the past from fragmentary details (“In Another Light” by Andrew Grieg), so that probably explains why this thought intrigues me now. But that’s a work of fiction, and Flip is very real: these are fragments from a true story.