D. B. Cooper in Popular Culture - Other

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• Oni Press launched a series (based very loosely on Cooper) by cartoonist Brian Churilla titled The Secret History of D.B. Cooper in March 2012.
• The Far Side for May 3, 1988, featured a comic with the caption "The untold ending of D. B. Cooper", where he is shown landing on a rottweiler farm.
• The Dilbert strip for January 17, 1991, featured Dogbert showing visitors around his museum where he claims an exhibit, feet protruding from a tree stump with an umbrella and a back pack nearby, are the remains of D. B. Cooper.
• The community of Ariel in Cowlitz County, Washington, commemorates the incident with a celebration, held annually on the Saturday following Thanksgiving Day, called "D. B. Cooper Days."
• The webcomic Milk for Dead Hamsters featured a strip on Aug 9, 2011 satirizing the FBI's failed attempt to capture D. B. Cooper.
• The webcomic Kevin and Kell features a character named Douglas Squirrel, an animal version of D. B. Cooper.
• Dining and entertainment establishments under the name D. B. Cooper operate in Madison Heights, Michigan, Kansas City, Missouri, and Houston, Texas; others in San Jose, California, and Nashua, New Hampshire have now closed.
• From 1992 to 1999, the World FreeFall Convention offered experienced skydivers the opportunity to jump from a cargo configuration Boeing 727. The aft airstairs were removed on the ground prior to jump operations. In most years, the jet carried up to 180 jumpers who exited in two passes over the Quincy, Illinois airport. Jumpers could also be issued a DB Cooper number and accompanying certificate. A McDonell-Douglas DC-9 is now used in Perris, California for jet jumps, and this aircraft was also used at later Conventions.
• In the 2008 video game Sam & Max, Dan B. Cooper is one of the famous missing persons found on Easter Island by way of the Bermuda Triangle.
• Mixed Martial Artist Chael Sonnen claimed on Joe Rogan's podcast that he believed to know the identity of Cooper, and that he was a family friend (Sonnen is from West Lynn, Oregon). He also claims that the publishers of his book excised his chapter talking about his beliefs because he refused to provide the name.