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Nineties kids know.

Thirty years ago, the Fox network debuted Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, a live-action superhero TV show adapted from footage from a Japanese program called Super Sentai. Nineties kids know: the American version would go on to explode in popularity, generating billions of dollars in toy sales. It even had a Motor City connection in Walter E. Jones, who played Zack Taylor, aka the Black Ranger. This year’s Youmacon anime convention in Detroit celebrates three decades of the…