The Dark Knight - magazine covers

Empire produced many different magazine covers for the release of the film "The Dark Knight". These are two of them that show the main characters.
These magazine covers are a good example of adapting the cover depending on the theme and type of character, and links to the characters to enable the audience to connect.
The two covers have different colour schemes, but both keep the same layout and titles, so that the two can be recognised as linked to eachother.
With most other magazine covers, the photo of the character covers some of the title. However, here, the text is brought to the front and the image to the back to highlight the title, the fact that there are two covers to collect, and the film title. This is effective as it is may not be what the audience expect from a magazine cover.