In 1968 Bo himself entered the prison there for the crime of "espionage." He had sarcastically translated the word "fellows" in a Popeye comic strip as "quan guo jun min tong bao," a favorite phrase of Chiang Kaishek's that literally means "my fellow soldiers and countrymen." By the time Bo was released, he had lost nearly a decade of his life and his marriage to boot.
」人權教育基金會董事長、作家柏楊表示，他將近十年的囚禁生涯，主要導因於民國五十七年在中華日報上，將一幅大力水手漫畫中的對話「Fellows」翻譯為「全國軍民同胞們」，被視為模仿國家元首用詞，而以「匪諜」罪名被監禁，也導致家庭破碎。