When is a cover not a cover?

[buyatari]

Ok it looks a bit like the cover. Would this be considered the cover art? Looks like changes were made before the final was "set in stone".

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320230511553

[Mephisto]

It's possible that the background was changed with a stat and the Conan figure was kept. I had a cover with Joker and Oracle and a Batman shadow was sin the background. The final cover still had Oracle and Joker but they went over the shadow a bunch of