Officer Dibble

Few characters capture the eternal comedy of authority outwitted quite like Officer Dibble, the long-suffering lawman who made his comics debut in Harvey's Hanna-Barbera Parade #9 in 1972. A Bronze Age arrival, he spent two decades turning up across titles like Hanna-Barbera Giant Size and TV Stars, sharing pages with the likes of Top Cat, Choo Choo, Benny the Ball, and Brain — a rogues' gallery of animated mischief-makers that tells you everything about the kind of company this beleaguered beat cop keeps. His catalog footprint may be modest, but for fans of Hanna-Barbera's golden era of funny-animal comics, spotting Dibble in a Harvey anthology is a genuine treat — a reminder that even the most determined upholder of order rarely gets the last laugh on these pages.