La Bantam Bibliographically Speaking Part I

There are five differences between the many Bantam variants - three for the front covers with text, the illustrated covers for issues 21 to 28 and the ads on the back covers. The three front covers differences are the colour combinations, the "eye of the bantam" and the text font. So far I've seen no differences in anything between the covers for any of the book variants.

There are ten colour combination for the text covers and I can't see a pattern. But there are patterns for the ads, the eye and the text font. So far all books I've seen with ad 1 have a black bantam eye and italic font. Also all books with ad 2 have non-italic font and do not have the black eye. The first pattern is seen only on books 1 - 20, the second on books from the first group (1 - 20) and the second (21 -28). Below are examples from the two patterns.

There are no illustrated cover variants. All have the black eye, same font and ad 4.

Bantam 14

Bantam 14 back

Bantam 22

Bantam 22 back

Bantam 22

Bantam 22 illustrated back