Bazooka Joe

Bazooka Joe is a comic strip character, featured on the wrappers of Bazooka bubble gum. He wears an eyepatch, lending him a distinctive appearance.

One of the more recognizable advertising character icons of the 20th century — and one of the few identifiable ones associated with a candy — Bazooka Joe was joined in his various misadventures by a motley crew of kids including Pesty, a kid with a 1950s cowboy hat-cum-sombrero, and Mort, a kid who always wore his red turtleneck sweater over his mouth. The comics generally consisted of soft, kid-friendly, notoriously cheesy jokes, as well as small ads for kitschy merchandise you could purchase with enough comics (and a few dollars). Sometime in the late 1970s to early 1980s, the bottom of the comics started including "fortunes," like the ones you'd find in a fortune cookie but usually with a comic bent. As with almost all ad characters of the 20th Century who had any sort of longevity, the style of the Bazooka Joe comics changed with the times, with Joe eventually adopting more of a 'hip-hop' look by the 1990s, complete with low-slung, baggy jeans.

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• Bazooka Joe is also known as a one Joe Rasmussen. This bizarre character invented the wheel and enjoys to scale waterfalls up and down the country and even worldwide. He is married to Dorothy Toucnut, and his favourite songs is Don't Stop Scaling Waterfalls, an adaption of the famous song Don't Stop Chasing Waterfalls. Bazooka Joe can sometimes be extremely dangerous, so approach with care, especially when accompianed by the famous Leather Colin.
• Bazooka Joe Comics 1954-2000
• Characters from Bazooka Comics
• The Bazooka Joe Page
• Topps Candy & Gum – Meet Bazooka Joe & His Gang
• Hats Off to Bazooka Joe
• Bazooka Joe Turns 50