But for 60 years, it was .
So the next time you see a dusty box of Bazooka at a retro candy store, buy it. Don't chew the gum (seriously, it’s like chewing a candle). Just look at the comic. Find that little box. And remember a time when a secret code only required a piece of gum, a dream, and a complete disregard for dental hygiene.
By 2012, Topps officially killed the physical Bazooka Joe comic strip. The code went extinct in the wild.
Did you ever actually own a working Bazooka Joe decoder ring? Or did you just guess the symbols? Let me know in the comments below!
It was silly. It was inconsistent. It was impossible to read in the dark.
The "Secret Code" turned a $0.05 piece of stale gum into an interactive puzzle. It forced you to buy another piece tomorrow to see if the symbols changed. (They usually didn't, but the hope was there.) One of the most fascinating things about the Bazooka Joe Code is that there was no single code.
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But for 60 years, it was .
So the next time you see a dusty box of Bazooka at a retro candy store, buy it. Don't chew the gum (seriously, it’s like chewing a candle). Just look at the comic. Find that little box. And remember a time when a secret code only required a piece of gum, a dream, and a complete disregard for dental hygiene.
By 2012, Topps officially killed the physical Bazooka Joe comic strip. The code went extinct in the wild.
Did you ever actually own a working Bazooka Joe decoder ring? Or did you just guess the symbols? Let me know in the comments below!
It was silly. It was inconsistent. It was impossible to read in the dark.
The "Secret Code" turned a $0.05 piece of stale gum into an interactive puzzle. It forced you to buy another piece tomorrow to see if the symbols changed. (They usually didn't, but the hope was there.) One of the most fascinating things about the Bazooka Joe Code is that there was no single code.
