*The second stage two-pager. Cover pic, flanked by out-of-context review extracts (unusually credited to the reviewer, emphasising AP's individual writers) and a concluding paragraph. This template served the mag well, though obviously relied still on having the cover and some reviews ready in order to work. How long could this style remain tenable in the face of AP's endemic laziness? As revealed by the necessarily awkward layout of the house ad archive, exactly a month.

Obviously, the example here is hampered by the replacement AP32 cover.