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Please help Wikipedia by improving the introduction according to the guidelines laid out at Wikipedia:Guide to layout. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. Dan Cooper is a Franco-Belgian comics series about a Canadian test pilot, created by Albert Weinberg. Tintin, one of the most famous Belgian comics Franco-Belgian comics are comics written in Belgium and France. ...
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The stories
Dan Cooper is a test pilot in the Canadian airforce. In the early stories, Cooper became involved in futuristic attempts at space exploration, and led the first space mission to reach the satellites of Mars. Later stories became more grounded in present-day events, but occasional episodes would pit Cooper against mysterious blue-skinned humanoids observing Earth from space.
There are over 40 Dan Cooper graphic novels to date (from Tintin magazine). We are only listing those that contain science fiction elements, followed by their number in the sequential order of the series: Le journal de Tintin (in its French-speaking version), Kuifje (Dutch-speaking version), was a weekly realist Belgian comics magazine of the second half of the 20th century. ...
- Le Triangle Bleu [The Blue Triangle] (#1) (TI Nos. 323-370, 1955; Lombard, 1957)
- Le Maître du Soleil [The Master Of The Sun] (#2) (TI Nos. 394-443, 1956-57; Lombard, 1958)
- Le Mur du Silence [The Wall Of Silence] (#3) (TI Nos. 445-475, 1957; Lombard, 1959)
- Operation Jupiter (#4) (TI Nos. 476-506, 1958; Lombard, 1979)
- Cap sur Mars [Destination Mars] (#5) (TI 519-564, 1959; Lombard, 1960)
- Les 3 Cosmonautes [The 3 Cosmonauts] (#10) (TI 760,-790, 1963; Lombard, 1966)
- Le Mystere des Soucoupes Volantes [The Mystery Of The Flying Saucers] (#14) (TI Nos. 903-930, 1966; Lombard, 1969)
- Panique à Cap Kennedy [Panic At Cape Kennedy] (#15) (TI Nos 945-962, 1967; Lombard, 1970)
- SOS dans l'Espace [SOS In Space] (#17) (TI Nos. 996-1017, 1968; Lombard, 1971)
- Apollo Appelle Soyouz [Apollo Calling Soyuz] (#20) (TI Nos. 1086-1106, 1969; Lombard, 1973)
- Le Canon de l'Espace [The Space Cannon] (#25) (Fleurus, 1980)
- Operation Kosmos 990 (#26) (Fleurus, 1980)
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Publishing history Dan Cooper was originally serialized in the weekly Tintin magazine, starting in [1954].
The stories were first collected as graphic novels by Editions du Lombard, except for "Operation Jupiter" (#4) which was only collected in 1979. In total, Lombard published 23 Dan Cooper albums. Le Lombard or Lombard Editions is a Belgian comic book publisher established in 1946 when the Tintin series was launched. ...
In 1979, the series was continued by Editions Fleurus, which published 3 more albums.
In 1981, Dan Cooper moved to Editions Novedi (distributed by Hachette), which published 10 albums. The series was taken over by Dargaud in 1988, and sequentially continued with 6 more albums (as of 1994). Les Éditions Dargaud is a publisher of Franco-Belgian and French comic book series. ...
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