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We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on.

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Brian K. Vaughan
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 17
Comics Writer
Screenwriter
Television Producer
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Cleveland
Ohio
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