From what I researched, this was the 1985 cover, too.
The one on the right is the cover I got with my ebook and which I know I had a few years ago in print. Here’s where I wonder about my research on the covers. Not to mention the very fitted jeans - I think it’s with what the style was at the time of publication.
But boy do I love that green jacket and pink notebook look going on here. The cover model is a little too exaggerated for what image I have in my mind. And that is in no way how I imagine Jerry looking, either. The 1985 UK edition of The Chocolate War offers up a boy who is giving the reader one of the fiercest looks I’ve seen on a cover. I think the boy looks kind of young for high school but I almost like that because it heightens those thoughts and feelings he’s portraying physically. His back is against the wall too, which I think gets to the heart of the book without being too obvious or too symbolic. The boy’s dressed as though he’s going to a fancy prep school, and yet he’s disheveled like he’s scared or nervous or worried. I really dig the look on this because I feel like it conveys the story quite well. The cover on the right is one of the - if not the - original UK covers. He’s dressed a little more professionally. I can’t tell too well because of the cover’s size, but I could see the guy standing in the middle being an adult, even. All of the boys look high school age here, maybe even older. First, the tagline is pretty great: “A compelling combination of The Lord of the Flies and A Separate Peace.” There’s also a blurb from The New York Times that calls the book “Masterfully structured and rich in theme.” And here we have boys with faces, all wearing some nice suit jackets, and they’re standing in front of what I assume is Trinity. On the left is a cover from the late 1970s, and it sure tells a different story than the original.
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