| Dan Cooper | |
| Anthology: | Tintin magazine |
| Lang: | fr |
| War: | y |
| Publisher: | Le Lombard, Fleurus, Novedi, Dargaud |
| Startmo: | 25 November |
| Startyr: | 1954 |
| Writers: | Albert Weinberg, Jean-Michel Charlier |
| Artists: | Albert Weinberg |
| Creators: | Albert Weinberg |
| Nonus: | y |
| Sort: | Dan Cooper |
Dan Cooper (also known as Les Aventures de Dan Cooper) is a Franco-Belgian comics series about a fictional Canadian military flying ace and rocketship pilot.
The comics series was conceived in 1954 as Tintin magazine's answer to the Buck Danny series published in the rival Spirou magazine. It was written and drawn by the Belgian Albert Weinberg (1922–2011); however, a handful of the stories were written by Jean-Michel Charlier instead. As per the Franco-Belgian comics tradition, after being serialized in a weekly comic book magazine, each completed storyline would appear as a published album.
Dan Cooper is a test pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Early story-lines featured futuristic science-fiction themes such as piloting a rocketship to the Martian moon Deimos; however later stories were more rooted in present-day themes.
Although fairly obscure in the English-speaking world since it did not appear in English translation (apart from a short run in the UK comics Champion and Lion in 1966 under the title Jet Jordan), the comics series nevertheless gained a small measure of notoriety in 2009 in the United States as a result of speculation concerning the identity of the 1971 airplane hijacker who came to be known as D. B. Cooper, but who had actually identified himself as "Dan Cooper." Cooper boarded a flight from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington, claimed to have a bomb and demanded $200,000 in cash. He obtained the cash when the plane landed for refueling, and jumped from the Reno-bound airplane somewhere near Portland. Cooper was never apprehended or identified despite decades of FBI investigations, and the only evidence recovered outside the plane was a few thousand dollars in ransom cash buried or lost on a sandbar in the Columbia River.
The Cooper Research Team led by Tom Kaye, working in cooperation with Seattle-based FBI agent Larry Carr, speculated that the hijacker may have chosen an alias based on the fictional character. Kaye and colleagues suggest the hijacker may have been exposed to the comics while on a tour of duty in Europe, or that he may have been of French-Canadian origin. Some of the comics storylines seemingly match aspects of the D. B. Cooper case, including jumping out of a plane with a parachute, as well as a ransom being delivered in a knapsack.[1] [2]
| Year | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Dan Cooper 1 - Le triangle bleu | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1958 | Dan Cooper 2 - Le maître du Soleil | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1959 | Dan Cooper 3 - Le mur du silence | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1960 | Dan Cooper 4 - Cap sur Mars | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1962 | Dan Cooper 5 - Duel dans le ciel (written by Jean-Michel Charlier) | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1963 | Dan Cooper 6 - Coup d'audace (written by Jean-Michel Charlier) | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1964 | Dan Cooper 7 - L'escadrille des Jaguars (written by Jean-Michel Charlier) | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1965 | Dan Cooper 8 - Le secret de Dan Cooper | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1966 | Dan Cooper 9 - 3 cosmonautes | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1967 | Dan Cooper 10 - Fantôme 3 ne répond plus ! | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1968 | Dan Cooper 11 - Acrobates du ciel | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1969 | Dan Cooper 12 - Tigres de mer | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1969 | Dan Cooper 13 - Le mystère des soucoupes volantes | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1970 | Dan Cooper 14 - Panique à Cap Kennedy | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1970 | Dan Cooper 15 - Les hommes aux ailes d'or | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1971 | Dan Cooper 16 - SOS dans l'espace | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1971 | Dan Cooper 17 - Ciel de Norvège | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1972 | Dan Cooper 18 - Les pilotes perdus | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1973 | Dan Cooper 19 - Apollo appelle Soyouz | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1974 | Dan Cooper 20 - L'affaire Minos | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1975 | Dan Cooper 21 - Objectif Jumbo | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1976 | Dan Cooper 22 - Crash dans le 135 | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1979 | Dan Cooper 23 - Opération Jupiter | Lombard/Dargaud |
| 1979 | Dan Cooper 24 - Azimut zéro | Fleurus/EDI-3 |
| 1980 | Dan Cooper 25 - Le canon de l'espace | Fleurus/EDI-3 |
| 1980 | Dan Cooper 26 - Opération Kosmos 990 | Fleurus/EDI-3 |
| 1981 | Dan Cooper 27 - Programme F-18 | Hachette/Novedi |
| 1981 | Dan Cooper 28 - F-111 en péril | Hachette/Novedi |
| 1982 | Dan Cooper 29 - L'aviatrice sans nom | Hachette/Novedi |
| 1982 | Dan Cooper 30 - Pilotes sans uniforme | Hachette/Novedi |
| 1983 | Dan Cooper 31 - Navette spatiale | Hachette/Novedi |
| 1984 | Dan Cooper 32 - Viking connection | Hachette/Novedi |
| 1985 | Dan Cooper 33 - Target | Hachette/Novedi |
| 1985 | Dan Cooper 34 - "Silver Fox" | Hachette/Novedi |
| 1986 | Dan Cooper 35 - Dragon Lady | Hachette/Novedi |
| 1987 | Dan Cooper 36 - L'avion invisible | Hachette/Novedi |
| 1989 | Dan Cooper 37 - La vrille | Dargaud |
| 1990 | Dan Cooper 38 - Pilotes fantômes | Dargaud |
| 1990 | Dan Cooper 39 - L'otage du Clemenceau | Dargaud |
| 1991 | Dan Cooper 40 - Alerte sur le "Clem" | Dargaud |
| 1992 | Dan Cooper 41 - L'œil du tigre | Dargaud |
| 2004 | Dan Cooper (Hors Série) 1 - Mystères et secrets | Loup |
| 2004 | Dan Cooper 2 - Le maître du Soleil - Épilogue | B.D. Club Genève |
| 2005 | Dan Cooper (Hors Série) 2 - Échec et Mat ! | Hibou |
| 2006 | Dan Cooper (Missions) 1 - Les paras | Hibou |
| 2006 | Dan Cooper (Hors Série) 3 - Les intrus | Hibou |
| 2008 | Dan Cooper (Hors Série) 4 - Tous azimuts! | Hibou |
| 2010 | Dan Cooper (Hors Série) 5 - L'île aux géants | Hibou |