Our Love Story: The Murray Romance Library edition

 

Murray Publishers' Our Love Story is a one-shot issue published c.July 1982. It comprises stories mostly originating in Charlton comics in the 1960's-70's:

Everything But The Groom!, originally published in Love Diary #91, January 1975
Never Sell Your Dream, originally published in Sweethearts #126, July 1972
Find-A-Man, originally published in I Love You #121, December 1976
Boy Meets Girl, originally published in Sweethearts #89, October 1966
Untouchable Lips, originally published in Secret Romance #8, August 1970
The Walk, originally published in Young Romance #198, March-April 1974
No Man For Me, originally published in Teen Confessions #90, August 1975
The Hermit of Turtle Island, originally published in Three Nurses #23, March 1964
Stolen Kisses, originally published in For Lovers Only #84, April 1976
Made For Each Other, originally published in Sweethearts #99, August 1968
Two Loves Had I..., originally published in Romantic Story #81, February-March 1966
Go Seek Love, originally published in For Lovers Only #71, May 1973
Southern Exposure, Sweethearts #80, January 1965
Sagittarius in Search of Aries, Teen Confessions #65, December 1970 I believe the attributions above to be accurate, however I have not crosschecked each story with scans, so if there are errors, please advise. Our Love Story was advertised as an imminent release in another Murray romance one-shot: Our Love Story was published under the Murray Romance Library imprint, but note that the preproduction cover in the advertisement does not bear the Murray Romance Library logo. Indeed the  Murray Comics logo on the top right hand corner of the advertisement is also generic, which is odd because other inhouse ads for romance comics in this period displayed the Murray Romance Library logo rather prominently. This issue has no connection to the Marvel Comics series, however Yaffa did produce a single Our Love Story issue based on the Marvel series. And, if my dating is accurate, the Yaffa edition preceded the Murray issue by no more than a month. Surely a coincidence - and yet, the Murray advertisement was clearly rushed to the press...