That would take some serious manipulation of the spacetime continuum, Joe!

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Yeah, so what's the problem? I know you have a Tardis around the house somewhere. ;-)

I don't know when they were made, I knew they existed but I don't know when they were done.

Here's what I found~:

Roger Stern wrote: More Secrets Behind the Comics Department: 'Way, 'way back in the early '90s, Brother John Byrne found himself scripting two X-Men comics, over stories plotted and penciled by Jim Lee and Larry Stroman. As we often did in those days, JB and I were talking over the phone -- and he mentioned that the books were running later and later, as pages dribbled in from his artists. He suggested that I offer my services as a fill-in writer to the X-editors. I was skeptical that there would be any interest in me at Marvel, this being slightly over four years since they'd fired me. But JB kept after me. So, I made a call, and was surprised when they commissioned me to write a story...and delighted when the plot was given to Dave Cockrum. (Though, if I'd know that Dave was going to draw it, I would have plotted a bunch of scenes of Nightcrawler and swordplay.) Anyway, I scripted Dave's pencils, turned the story in, and was paid. And after that, I never heard another word from the X-office. That was sixteen years ago.

QUOTE: I think the book coasted for almost twenty years on the Dark Phoenix momentum.

Well imo you missed out. It was one of the monthlies I've enjoyed the most.

JB:

Did you plan to bring Jean "back to basics" with the original "depowered" ending?