 Congdon and Gotfryd eventually settled on printing a typographical jacket, but that was subsequently discarded once Bantam editor Oscar Dystel noted the title "Jaws" was so vague "it could have been a title about dentistry".Gotfryd tried to get Minor to do a new cover, but he was out of town, so he instead turned to artist Paul Bacon.Bacon drew an enormous shark head, and Gotfryd suggested adding a swimmer "to have a sense of disaster and a sense of scale".