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Bazooka Joe is a comic strip character, featured on small comics included inside individually wrapped pieces of Bazooka bubblegum. He wears a black eyepatch, lending him a distinctive appearance. He is one of the more recognizable American advertising characters of the 20th century, due to worldwide distribution, and one of the few identifiable ones associated with a candy. With sales of Bazooka bubble gum down, Bazooka Candy Brands announced in November 2012 that they will no longer include the comic strip in their packaging. The new wrapper will include brain teasers, instructions, and codes that can be used to unlock videos and video games. The company stated that Bazooka Joe and other characters will occasionally appear on the new packaging. ==Characters and story== Bazooka Joe is joined in his various misadventures by a motley crew of characters, who came from the tradition of syndicated kid gang comic strips such as Gene Byrnes' ''Reg'lar Fellers'' and Ad Carter's ''Just Kids''. The group includes: *Pesty (formerly Orville), who may be Joe's younger brother, with a 1950s cowboy sombrero *Mort, a gangly boy who always wears his red turtleneck sweater pulled up over his mouth *Hungry Herman, Joe's tubby pal *Jane, Joe's girlfriend *Toughie, a sailor hat-wearing, streetwise type *Metaldude, a blond mulleted fan of heavy metal music *Walkie Talkie, a neighborhood mutt The comics generally consist of soft, child-friendly jokes, as well as small advertisements for kitschy merchandise one could purchase with enough comics and a few dollars. From the very beginning in 1954, the bottom of the comics included "fortunes" similar to those one would find in a fortune cookie but with a comedic bent. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bazooka Joe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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