Author of the Classics of ‘X-Men', John Byrne Returns to Rewrite the Story of Phoenix: 'We Made It Explode an Entire Planet'

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Half a century ago, quadrinist John Byrne, alongside key collaborators such as Chris Claremont and Terry Austin, transformed "Uncanny X-Men" — a comic book magazine by Marvel of modest sales, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the early 1960s — into an overwhelming phenomenon. HQ, which narrates the trajectory of a team of humans born with extraordinary powers, helped light up the stump that led to the explosion of the pop culture that Marvel…