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Husni's Double Vision…or Triple, or Quadruple

Would the magazine with one cover on the newsstand please stand up? More and more magazines are going for the collector's approach of giving readers cover 1 out of 2, 1 out of 3, or even 1 out of 4. Collector's editions are printed in the hopes that someone (besides me) will buy all the covers with the same content inside. Here is a sampling of some I bought this month with multiple covers. Enjoy and, yes, laugh and say "you've been had." By the way, as far as I know, the magazine holding the record for the number of split covers for the same issue is TV Guide with their Star Trek 35th anniversary issue. That week they had 35 different covers.

All You (2 covers)

Family Circle (2 covers)

Harper's Bazaar (2 covers)

Ladies' Home Journal (2 covers)

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