| Dan Cooper | |
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| Created by | Albert Weinberg |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Le Lombard, Fleurus, Novedi, Dargaud |
| Formats | Original material for the series has been published as a strip in the comics anthology(s) Tintin magazine. |
| Original language | French |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | 25 November 1954 |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Albert Weinberg, Jean-Michel Charlier |
| Artist(s) | Albert Weinberg |
Dan Cooper (also known as Les Aventures de Dan Cooper) is a Franco-Belgian comics series about a fictional Canadian military flying ace and astronaut.
The title was conceived by Albert Weinberg in 1954 as Tintin magazine's answer to Buck Danny, which had become a great success for the rival Spirou magazine. It was the second of three prominent Franco-Belgian aviation-themed bandes dessinées, alongside Jean-Michel Charlier's Buck Danny (1948) and Tanguy et Laverdure (1959). Weinberg wrote and drew the strip for almost forty years, with the exception of three stories contributed by Charlier in the early 1960s.
As per Franco-Belgian comics tradition, each completed storyline would appear as a published album after first appearing as a serial in a weekly magazine.