Over six tumultuous decades, the X-Men have carved a singular place in comic book lore and popular culture. Now, New York Times best-selling author Ed Piskor (Hip-Hop Family Tree, Wizzywig) takes you on a pulse-pounding tour of X-Men history unlike anything you''ve ever experienced before - an intricate labor of love that stitches together hundreds of classic and obscure stories into one seamless X-Men masterpiece! All three of Piskor''s GRAND DESIGN series are collected in a single volume for the first time - taking you from Professor X''s formation of the original team, through the Second Genesis of the All-New, All-Diff erent X-Men and the devastating Dark Phoenix Saga, to the 1980s epics like Inferno that pushed mutantkind to the brink of X-tinction!