In comic books, a variant cover (sometimes variant edition) refers to an issue of a comic book printed with multiple covers with each unique cover art. Variant covers became common during the "Speculator Boom" of the 1990s, when more collectors became interested in the storage and preservation of their comic books with the goal of future financial gain than reading the comics themselves.
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““I am willing to die for my country” is a variant of “I am willing to kill for my country.””
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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—Federico García Lorca (1898–1936)