This was most popular due to price and the prize of the comic strip inside. Everyone collected them although I don't know anyone that ever sent them in for a prize. I don't know anyone that actually received a prize for collecting the Indians on the Tootsie Roll Pops either.

i love bazooka!

Bazooka bubble gum goes back to around 1962. While it competed against Fleer's Dubble Bubble, the two taste exactly alike, leading me to think that Fleer made Bazooka. The prizes offered in the Bazooka Joe comic slips were from the same, cheesy novelty companies you'd seen advertised in the Archie comic books. Prizes included X-Ray Specs and fake books with combination locks for storing stuff. No prize was worth more than two dollars.

I sent for the mini tool set back in the day, and I just came across it in the cupboard!! Funny!

I used to walk around the playground, looking for thrown away comics. Sent in and got 2 or 3 prizes. I remember when they were 2 for a penny.

Yep I remember when I was a kid going to the IGA store in town, they had 2 check out lines but only used one the other was covered with containers of candy. All the candy cost between a penny and a quarter each, I used to go in and load up on bazooka gum, Atomic fireballs and jaw breakers. Back then you could buy a lot of candy for a dollar.

I learned to blow bubbles w/ Bazooka Bubble gum. I loved the little pieces and comics for a penny, (how can you beat that?), but I also loved the ones in 5 inch sectioned sticks for a nickel. Each section was the size of a regular piece of Bazooka. Grape was the best! When I used to work in an after-school program, we had "Bubble Gum Friday". I'd load up on Bazooka Bubble gum (then a nickel each), and give the kids 1 piece each. We saved the comics and made collages. And not to long ago, when I babysat a little 6 year old boy, we'd stop off on the way home and pick up some Bazooka. And I taught him to blow bubbles w/ it!

Fleer's Dubble Bubble, a bubble gum icon since 1922, gained a strong rival in Topp's Bazooka in 1946. Little Bazooka Joe comic sheets were included starting in 1954. Joe's pal was that strange kid who wore the red turtleneck of his shirt over his mouth. Each comic sheet had offers for cheap toys in exchange for mailing empty wrappers. Topps discontinued the comics in the early 1990s.

Scoping through eBay today, I came across a 1968 "Laugh-In" gum card box, selling for $250. bust pictures of Rowan (without mustache) and Martin (with toupee) printed, This Topps series consisted of 77 cards, about half of them had line-drawn cartoons, and some which opened up, called "Foldies." As always, a stick of home-brand Bazooka gum was included in each nickel pack, along with five cards.

I still remember when you could send in X amount of Bazooka wrappers or a lesser amount of wrappers plus $ for toys. I sent in for the Exploding Battle Ship with the Torpedo Submarine. I played with it while I took a bath. This was in the late 1960s when I was around 9 years old. It brought back so many memories when I saw the Bazooka Bubble gum in Amazon.