THAT'S A GREAT TRICK, CAP - I WISH I COULD DO IT...

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I remember once talking to GRANT MORRISON (name dropper) about The SINGING DETECTIVE.  It was many years ago and I can't quite recall where we were talking.  It was either in a comics shop or at a mart in the MOIR HALL in Glasgow.  He was very much taken with DENNIS POTTER's serial, and when I mentioned a scene from a much earlier Potter TV adaptation that was repeated in 'Detective', he said that's what he liked about him - his obsession with certain themes and images.

Personally (and cynically), I'd have put it down to lack of originality, but what do I know?  Going by Grant's definition, the amount of times I've blethered on about how quickly time passes as we get older, maybe I display the same sort of obsession that he so admired in Potter - and what follows is another such example.

See the cover above?  (Of course you do - why do I even ask?)  It only seems like a few short years ago that I bought it, and I even remember doing so back in 1989.  I wasn't really a reader of CAPTAIN AMERICA's mag back then, so I made the purchase based purely on the cover art (very much in the style of JACK KIRBY) looking just like a '60s MARVEL comic.  It's cover-dated July, which makes it almost exactly 30 years old this month (though it probably went on sale around April - in America anyway). 

I can't believe it (as VICTOR MELDREW would say), as that means I'm now twice as old as when I bought the comic back in '89.  Anyway, in a blatant attempt to drum up your participation (trust me, it's good for your soul), is there anything in your vast accumulation of treasures that you feel is a relatively recent purchase, only to be amazed when you realise it was acquired around half your life away (or longer)?

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