Pocket Love Library #7
"Ticket to Happiness" is a poignant, quietly powerful story from Pocket Love Library #7 (1970), a 1/- comic that captures a moment of emotional intensity with understated grace. Told through the eyes of Sally, a woman carrying the weight of a love letter and a scarred face, the tale unfolds on a train as she shares her past with a kind, blind stranger. The story, illustrated and inked by the artist known only as Judith (signed), is a rare, intimate glimpse into personal heartache and hope, rendered in a style that feels both timeless and true to its era.
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Sally met a soldier in the train station as he was leaving and started exchanging letters with him. In one letter he told her they would get married the next time he was home on leave. However, she later learned he may be engaged to another woman. Driving frantically to discover the truth, she ended up in an accident that scarred her face. Now she is on a train to meet with George and tells her story to a sympathetic young blind man.
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