As I have confessed in the past I am no expert when it comes to funny comics. I was strictly a superhero/adventure guy growing up, and while I would like to think I’m learning I’ll happily admit I still know almost nothing about the subject. Bu I know what I like and I like the work of Bernard Dibble, a cartoonist who frequently signed himself ‘Dib’. He provided loads of humorous one and two pagers for Quality Comics titles such as Crack Comics, Smash Comics, Feature Comics and Modern Comics featuring characters like Archie O’Toole, Beezy, Molly the Model, Lala Palooza and Johnny Doughboy.

What I didn’t know was that Dibble was a United Features Syndicate staff artist who worked on Hawkshaw the Detective in the 1920′s and drew Captain and the Kids in the 193o’s. Not to mention Iron Vic, which I’ll be getting to, I promise. But, sadly, that’s pretty much all the Internet has to say about Bernard Dibble, except that in the 50′s he was employed by the New York City Parks Department. I guessing there’s a story behind that career change, I only wish I knew what it was.

In 1946 Kibble finally got his own comics when Standard (a.k.a. Nedor, a.k.a. Better) published exactly one issue of El Bombo, another comic I never dreamed existed. In a series of five page installments it told the story of El Bombo, a large, kindhearted, super-strong Central American Indian who comes to America. It’s lovely stuff, and I just wish there was more of it.

And for some reason also included are two pages of the strangely named Looy Dot Dope, a short-lived comic strip Dibble worked on in 1937-38