I've always gone with classic, except for the first Tomb of Dracula, which had a variant by Gene Colan. Just liked that cover better, and in hindsight, I'm glad I went with that one, because I ended up getting the classic covers for the next two volumes, giving me all Colan covers.Would have loved to have seen new Colan covers for the other two as well, but with his health problems, I'm sure that wasn't possible.