When Mister X hit the shelves twenty-five years ago, no one had ever seen anything like it - a fusion of film noir, Art Deco, and German Expressionism channeled through the talents of the greatest up-and-coming artists of the day. The story of a utopian city with architecture that drove its inhabitants mad and the never-sleeping architect who quested tirelessly for a cure, Mister X captivated a generation of comics fans and creators, transforming the landscape of their chosen medium forever. Still as inspiring and compelling as the first time it saw print, the entire run of Mister X written by Dean Motter gets the deluxe treatment in this volume, every page of its groundbreaking artwork painstakingly restored.

After revolutionizing the worlds of design and storytelling in 1984, Dean Motter's Mister X reinvented alternative comics. Radiant City's utopian design and futuristic architecture should have made it the City of Dreams. Instead, a flaw in the city's psychetecture caused an epidemic of insanity among its residents. After years of exile, one of Radiant's original architects, Mister X, is given a chance to redeem himself and the city when he is asked to redesign the skyline in hope of a cure. But some of the originally designed structures that were never built have begun appearing - with subtle changes - and Mister X must find the secret behind this mysterious urban renewal before Radiant City's inhabitants tear the city apart!

Visit Radiant City, designed using the principles of psychetecture to soothe its inhabitants. But something went horribly wrong, and the city instead causes anxiety, insomnia, and madness! As ordinary citizens begin giving in to dementia and a serial killer walks the streets, a desperate City Hall commissions a drastic program of urban demolition, resulting in the deaths of an entire sect of architects. Returning from exile with a mission to recover Radiant City's original blueprints, only one man has a chance of restoring its sanity - the enigmatic Mister X!