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 Franco-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.
Although fairly obscure in the English-speaking world since it did not appear in English translation, 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". 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, suggesting that he 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.[
She knew about the comics angle at least, though speculation of the tie in came out 2 years ealier. As you can also see it does apparently match one of the story lines of the comic series. 8>)
Also, if it was never translated into English, does that mean L.D. Copper is a French Canadian as suggested?
Like I said though, an interesting story she told. However, if he lost control of the loot then I would think it would have been uncovered by now. I suppose a wild animal could have carried it into a den or something, still waiting to be discovered. Still lots of mystery surrounding the case with no definitive answers.