Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Liberated Lovers: A Murray Comics one-shot

Liberated Lovers is a one-shot romance comic published by Murray Publishers c.June 1982:

The cover is from Charlton's Love and Romance #21, March 1975:


The contents:

Call Me Ms., previously published in Love and Romance #21, March 1975
A Goddess Can Fall in Love, previously published in Hollywood Romances #58, April 1971
Fickle Heart, previously published in Romantic Story #85, November 1966

Just for Kicks, previously published in Teen-Age Love #74, January 1971
He'll Have to Do, previously published in Sweethearts #111, July 1970
The Game of Love, previously published in My Only Love #5, March 1976
He Turns Me On!, previously published in Just Married #101, July 1974
The Roll Calls For Kisses!, previously published in Sweethearts #136, October 1973
Stolen Love, previously published in Romantic Story #79, October 1965

Hurry Toward Love, previously published in Teen-Age Love #74, January 1971
Greener Grass, previously published in Career Girl Romances #64, August 1971

Freedom to Live, previously published in Teen-Age Love #92, April 1973
I'll Be Alone..., previously published in Secrets of Young Brides #5, March 1976

All of these stories previously appeared in Charlton comics from the 1960's-1970's. Some also appeared in other Murray comics.

Murray's romance one-shots in this period appeared under the Murray Romance Library imprint. Oddly, this one is under the regular black Murray Comics logo which, for a time after March 1982, superseded the red Murray Comics logo. Indeed this issue contains two in-house advertisements for romance comics, one of which includes the Murray Romance Library logo, and the other - for Our Love Story - doesn't.

The typeface for the masthead is one often used by Murray in this period, for example on Cowboy Adventures and Renegade Raiders, and is slanted to the left - evidently it was, y'know, liberated...

1 comment:

Mark Muller said...

OMG! I know Charlton were (in)famous for dreadful colouring but this takes the cake… a lesson in EVERY incorrect colour to use with other colours.
For once the Murray re-colouring is (far) superior to an original.