LA Bantam - the Eye of the Bantam

Bantam Publications published most, if not all, of its books (except the last one) with variant covers. There were different colours on the text covers and, for eight of the books, illustrated covers. However the one consistent feature was the large red bantam logo. But even here there were two variants - one with a black dot for the eye and one with the eye showing the background colour. Approximately 3/4 of the 40 some variants I've seen have the black dot. Is there any bibliographic significance to this? Don't know - need to see more variants. One interesting feature is that books with the dot have an italicized front cover blurb; those without the dot have a non-italicized blurb. All nine illustrated covers have a dot. And to confuse matters there is one book, Humorous Anecdotes, with no eye - although other copies of the book with an otherwise identical cover have the eye without the dot.

LA Bantam 19 with dot

LA Bantam 18 with dot

LA Bantam 18 without the dot

LA Bantam 24 with no eye