# Bazooka Joe **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 11, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bazooka-joe/218388 "2003-12-11T17:14:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bazooka-joe/218388/1 "2003-12-11T17:14:27Z")
i saw a couple of my students yukking it up over the little comics from Bazooka bubble gum and it sparked the following questions for me: 1. Who is the artist? 2. Who is the writer? 3. How long have they been “publishing” Bazooka Joe? 4. Do they constantly write new ones or have they simply rotated the old ones? 5. Is there still a character named “Pud” which is a slang term for penis in the US? ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bazooka-joe/218388/2 "2003-12-11T17:27:19Z")
I do believe that Pud is featured in those miniscule comics on Dubble Bubble gum wrappers. Or, did he make a cameo I don’t know about? ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bazooka-joe/218388/3 "2003-12-11T17:40:33Z")
No, I think you’re right. Pud (tee-hee) has his own comic. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bazooka-joe/218388/4 "2003-12-11T19:18:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scumpup \* > \*\* > 5. Is there still a character named “Pud” which is a slang term for penis in the US? \*\* Almost _everything_ is a slang term for penis in the US, there, Johnson! * * * BCS stands for (illegitimate child) + (crowing rooster) + (Tootsie Pops) ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bazooka-joe/218388/5 "2003-12-11T21:49:24Z")
Can’t answer, except that I collected them for prizes in the late 1950’s, and they seemed lame and outdated then. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bazooka-joe/218388/6 "2003-12-11T22:11:20Z")
They put out new ones. Howard Cruse, a respected Underground arist, drew the strip for a while. R. Sikoryak, who draws “Classic Comics” in the style and idiom of familiar comics artists, did a wonderful adaptation of **Paradise Lost** for **Raw** about ten years ago in the style of “Bazooka Joe.” Actually, “Bazooka Joe” and “Nancy” are kind of cult figures among underground cartoonists. ---
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bazooka-joe/218388/7 "2003-12-11T23:15:47Z")
And how did Bazooka Joe lose that eye? ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bazooka-joe/218388/8 "2003-12-12T02:22:49Z")
Who is the one with the red shirt pulled up over his mouth? And why? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bazooka-joe/218388/9 "2003-12-12T02:59:56Z")
You actually saw someone _laughing_ at a _Bazooka Joe comic_? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bazooka-joe/218388/10 "2003-12-12T05:08:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Krokodil \* > \*\*They put out new ones. Howard Cruse, a respected Underground arist, drew the strip for a while. R. Sikoryak, who draws “Classic Comics” in the style and idiom of familiar comics artists, did a wonderful adaptation of **Paradise Lost** for **Raw** about ten years ago in the style of “Bazooka Joe.” > > \*\* It was Dante’s Inferno, not Milton’s Paradise Lost. Prizes listed included a tail for the judging of souls, a heart locket with Beatrice’s initial, and a collar for a 3-headed dog. [Scroll down for a look](http://63.195.118.54/archives/000557.html) ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bazooka-joe/218388/11 "2003-12-12T05:33:58Z")
According to the official [Topps](http://www.topps.com/Confectionery/conf_history.html) website, Bazooka Joe comics were introduced in 1953. The kid in the Bazooka Joe comics who always wears the red turtleneck up to his nose? Mort. I like to think of him as the ancestor of _South Park_’s Kenny. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bazooka-joe/218388/12 "2003-12-12T06:37:59Z")
[A bit of needed insight.](http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~jimmyk/bazooka_html/)