Oh man, I had completely forgotten about those, but my mom used to buy that tea, 70s era.
According to the CBC article, Bazooka bubble gum was 1 penny per piece in 1954. I am almost positive I could still buy it for a penny in the late 80s/early 90s. Does that sound right or am I confusing a penny with a nickel?
I think it was two cents in the '70s, when I was a buyer. I collected enough comics to get a few things, including a round Bazooka Joe kazoo.
Unless it’s Stefano DiMera inhabiting Patch’s body. 
Which caused “Patch” and Kayla to get a divorce. But the real Patch and Kayla have remarried for the 4th time.
Hmm, I wonder what the case law is on divorcing someone pretending to be someone else. Is the divorce valid?
In the '50s and '60s, several brands of laundry detergent included free towels in every package.
We’re probably about the same age and I think Bazookas were 5 or 7 cents. Blow Pops were a quarter. The local hobby shop (scale models, train sets, radio controlled cars) had a small candy shelf with some harder to find candies like Lemonheads and Lik-m-aids for 15 cents.
It was the last penny candy that I can remember. We would pool our change to buy candy, and whatever number of cents were left after the chocolate and licorice went to buying Bazooka Joe gum. The comic was a nice little bonus, helped pass the time while you softened up the gum, which could take a while because the gum hardened with age.
I didn’t realize it was ever supposed to be the main thing.
The gum wasn’t. But the cigarettes were.
It was still a penny in the early '60s when I bought it. I got lots of stuff from them, including an album to put gum cards in, which I used to store my Mars Attacks cards
of which I had a complete set.
Loved the Bazooka gum, hated the gum that came with baseball cards.
That stuff could be used as a throwing star if you cut it in the right shape. Dangerous!
I wish there was a scan of this online, but I remember Nation Lampoon did Bazooka Joe Cartoons from Around the World. Ron Barrett, renowned children’s book illustrator, did the artwork. According to this source, it came out in their October 1979 issue.
One strip was from Uganda. Bazooka Joe was drawn like Idi Amin. He asks his Ugandanized friend Mort why the chicken crosses the road. Mort responds, “I don’t know Joe. Why?” Idi Joe angrily says “You do know! You’re lying!” and proceeds to beat the tar out of him. He then pulls Mort’s damaged body up and says “Now tell me the answer!” His assistant tells him he’s dead, and Idi Joe says in the last panel, “Darn! Now I’ll never know the answer!”
There was another one from Communist China which had Asian versions of Joe and Mort singing the virtues of Marxism, and that’s all I remember.
I highly recommend Inferno Joe. It’s Bazooka Joe comics meets Dante’s Inferno. I first read it in Raw, but it’s available online. I just suck at Googling and am pressed for time.
1989: Inferno Joe | found it
How the hell did you find that? Amazing!
On page 19, there’s a Pioneer ad that calls something an eargasm, in case anyone thought that was a new term (I did).
First I googled to find the issue it was in (because I didn’t notice you had already mentioned the correct issue) and then archive.org was the first place I looked to find that issue because that’s the kind of thing they tend to have.
It was nice to have a quick success because it came after a failure to find an on-line copy of Astonishing #19. I wanted to see a certain story, but only ever found one page. (It was a kind of suprising failure, since vast numbers of older comics are findable, licitly or not.)
In Canada, Bazooka came in different forms. In the seventies, little squares of gum cost a penny, then later two. But Bazooka also came as an extended log with a bigger comic, and those cost a nickel, then a dime. They came out with a package of soft gum with no comic and those did not last long. Then they came out with bigger squares for a nickel that came in three flavours and did have the comic.