Big Joe is a character appearing in the TMHT Adventures comics by Fleetway Publications. He is the leader of a gang of thieving bikers. His motorcycle sports several exhaust pipes and the flaring side panels are shaped like flames which is matched by the paint job.
Big Joe and his gang pull up to the OK Pizza Parlour, nearly running over a customer who has just exited the building. When Big Joe enters, he goes straight to the counter and orders ten large pizzas with everything. The frightened waitress tells him that it will cost fifty dollars. Big Joe turns to his gang and asks if they heard what she said. One of his thugs says yes, that she said the pizzas are free. The waitress starts to argue the point, but Big Joe gets in her face and tells her they aren’t paying. He then shouts for the employees to get their pizzas ready unless they want the OK Pizza smashed up.
Just then the Turtles arrive and push through the crowd of gang members as they work their way to the counter. Big Joe warns the waitress to say nothing… or else. Don gets the attention of the waitress, whose eyes are on Big Joe, and tells her they want four mega-pizzas with a variety of odd toppings. The waitress then hands Michaelangelo his check, but it's actually a note asking for help. Big Joe comes up behind Mikey and tells him to stay out of it for his health. Informing him that threatening a Hero Turtle was a mistake, Mikey easily tosses Big Joe over his shoulder and into a pile of pizza boxes. An angry Big Joe orders his gang to get Mikey.
The Turtles easily mop the floor with the gang, so Big Joe calls for a retreat, and the Turtles follow. One of the thug’s manages to escape on their motorcycle, but Donatello throws his staff at Big Joe’s motorcycle. The motorcycle falls over and hits all the others until there is a pile of broken motorcycle parts. The Turtles then split up to go after different gang members. Big Joe doubles around to the back of the pizza parlour and Mikey catches up to him after removing his trenchcoat and fedora. Big Joe says that Mikey doesn’t scare him with that fake Turtle gear. He enters the kitchen and when Mikey follows, Big Joe throws a bunch of cooking pans at him. Mikey dodges and then is distracted by fresh pizza. He begins eating, leaning away every time Big Joe tries to hit him with various utensils. Finally, Mikey picks up a hedgehog pizza and says he can’t stand them. Big Joe stops throwing things to question ‘hedgehog pizza’. Mikey turns and says not really as he splats the pizza on Big Joe’s face.
After the Turtles capture all of the gang members, they leave them on the floor of OK Pizza, where the police pick them up. The first officer says that they’ve been after the thieving bunch for a long time. Big Joe is just coming to and asks what’s happening. The officer informs the gang that they are all under arrest. As the handcuffed thugs are taken from OK Pizza by the police, Big Joe thinks to himself that he couldn’t have seen a turtle, it must have been a nightmare.
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- Character gallery