Yet another treasured memory from childhood gone. Here’s an old interview with Jay Lynch the main writer of the comics in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2012/11/isnt-your-dads-bazooka-bubble-gum/59479/#
I just pre ordered Bazooka Joe and His Gang a book coming out next year with many of the old comics.
Christmas cracker?
the gum was always stale.
But the jokes inspired a great stand up routine.
I used to have a cork board in my room in junior high. Always had a few of my favorite Bazooka Joe cartoons pinned up. Back then they were writing some pretty good ones.
I’m not sure what happened. Bazooka Gum has been hard to find for a long time. Often its stale when you do find it.
The other bubble gum I liked was Dubble Bubble. It was typically in a big tub on the counter, by the cash register. Two pieces for a nickle. I still occasionally buy it when I find it in a hardware store or other mom & pop place. It’s a lot smaller now and I think it’s a dime a piece?
How dare they!
BTW, when I chewed the stuff, if you saved the comics you could also send away for neat stuff. I got my baseball card album that way which we used to put my Invaders from Mars cards in.
What the…? You don’t know what a Christmas cracker is?
How can it be that the rest of the world is intimately familiar with the 4th of July and Thanksgiving, but America knows bugger all about any other country’s traditions?
I mean, okay, you may not know much about Fiji or Iceland, but the UK??? Really?
Now I feel old. When I was a kid, Dubble Bubble was a penny per piece. And you got the comics with Pud and his pal Tim.
Gum just pulls the fillings out of my teeth.
Phooey.
I had no idea Bazooka bubblegum was still around. Who buys it?
It’s sad when you realize your country is as insignificant as Fiji and Iceland, isn’t it? 
Happy Lendervedder != “America.”
OK, I’ll bite (Ha!), what’s a Christmas cracker?
I don’t know who buys it, but you can buy it here.
I don’t know if I’d want to eat a cracker that’s ‘highly unstable’. 
I think most people are more familiar with their British name: Christmas biscuits.
In the summer of 1993, I had a summer job (NSERC) working for a math professor. Another math professor brought in a bunch of spare change and said that the summer students could have it if they wanted to go through the trouble to roll it all up and take it to the bank.
We used the proceeds to buy candy, among which was a bucket of 100 pieces of Bazooka Joe gum. Then we did a chi-squared test on the comics to see if they were uniformly distributed. The result: they probably were.
Paradoxically, we got a lot of laughs out of how unfunny those comics were.
On an unrelated note, we also did blind taste-testing to test the theory that different colours of (Canadian) Smarties have different flavours. The result: inconclusive, since we didn’t bother washing the chocolate flavour out of our mouths between samples.