D.B. Cooper inspired by comic books?

I always found D.B. Cooper fascinating, probably since The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper was on pretty continuous rotation on HBO when I was a kid.

Now there's a comic book connection. Maybe.

FBI: Comic book holds clue in D.B. Cooper case | KOMO News - Seattle, Washington | Local & Regional:

"One of the Northwest's most notorious unsolved crimes may have a comic book connection...

In November 1971, a man identifying himself as Dan Cooper, later mistakenly called D.B. Cooper, hijacked a Northwest Orient flight from Portland to Seattle, claiming he had a bomb.

At Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, he released the passengers in exchange for $200,000 and four parachutes and asked to be flown to Mexico. He jumped from the plane somewhere near the Oregon state line.

...Larry Carr, the FBI agent currently overseeing the case, now believes the hijacker may have taken his name from a French comic book. The Dan Cooper comic book was popular in France in the 1960s and early 1970s and one issue published around the time of the hijacking shows the character parachuting.

Carr said this is an important clue in the case because the comic books were never translated into English, which supports his theory that the hijacker had been in the Air Force and probably spent time in Europe, where he likely came across the Dan Cooper comic books..."