Verb
harken back (third-person singular simple present harkens back, present participle harkening back, simple past and past participle harkened back)
Alternative form of hearken back
To harken back to the pre-Crisis days is to play to exactly what I find most wrong with DC these days-their idea of "innovation” is to press "rewind”. And that is most definitely catering to the "old” crowd. (2007) John Byrne