Wesley Morse (June 17, 1897 - June 20, 1963) was a cartoonist who is most famous for his creation of the Bazooka Joe comic strip for the bubble gum company Topps in 1953. He also created the Copa girl, which was the basis for the Copacabana logo.
Morse was one of only two known authors of Tijuana Bibles in the 1930s (Doc Rankin is believed to be another), and memorably created a series of them that used the 1939 World's Fair as their setting and were, according to legend, clandestinely sold at the fair itself.
Morse collaborated with H. C. Witwer on the comic strip Switchboard Sally in 1925.[1]