For those not familiar with the classic gum
http://www.topps.com/Confectionery/Bazooka/joe.html
My own theory is that Bazooka Joe lost in in WWII (prior to 1947 when his name was Sergeant Krautkill McJaphater).
Yes. He was using a bazooka and it backfired.
Bazookas always backfire.
Maybe he was the loader and didn’t duck.
:rolleyes:
I thought he just wore the eyepatch to look cool.
I think **carnivorousplant[/b[ has it right. He lost his eye looking into the back of a bazooka being fired and his friends have called him “Bazooka Joe” ever since to remind him what a dumbass he is.
Cecil’s (rather short) column on the subject: How did Bazooka Joe lose his right eye?
I’m suprised that you guys didn’t know this, but Bazooka Joe lost his eye while blowing a bubble with his gum. He had one of the largest bubbles ever recorded going when one of his friends decided it would be funny to pop the bubble to cover Joe in goo.
Just when the friend came up to poke the bubble with his index finger, Joe lost the bubble and the friend inadvertantly poked Joe’s eye out.
Damn shame…
That’s damned boring. I was hoping for something involving Mrs. Joe’s garter belt.
Wow, Cecil really does know everything!
And Odinoneeye (who should know) had it right.
I always assumed it was a leftover from the ill-fated “Scurvy Sea Dog Bubble Gum” with “Cannonball Pirate Joe.”
I always assumed he shot it out with his Red Ryder Air Rifle. I guess I was wrong.
Weird masturbation accident.
I like to think it went something like this…
MORT: Joe, I have to ask you a simple question. If you answer it simply and correctly, we’re cool. If you make one of your typical lame-ass joke answers, I will stick a white hot metal needle in your eye. Now then, how do I get to Carnegie Hall?
JOE: Practice!
MORT: I WARNED, you!!!
Joe: Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrgggh!
MORT: Don’t worry- save up 30 of your comic strips, and you can send away for a neat eye patch.
Mai Tai cocktail umbrella in the eye during the invasion of Grenada.
Certainly a thoughtfull and creative answer, but does it not imply that Bazooka Joe is a cab driver, in which case his moniker would be “Cabbie Joe”, or “Joe the Hack”?
How 'bout that.
I’m convinced it was a knife fight woth Mort. Why do you think Mort has the collar around his mouth? He’s horribly disfigured under there.
Naah, it’s just that Joe’s idea was “to do it until he needed glasses”, not realizing that the loss mechanism wasn’t gradual deterioration, but “one at a time”.
Pud, from the “other” bubblegum comics, gouged it out so he could skull-fuck him.